House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) called for Republicans to ā€œget their act togetherā€ and elect the next speaker while slamming the ā€œextremistsā€ within their party.

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    Thatā€™s what heā€™s doing here. If Democrats calls on MAGA to unite with the GOP, they canā€™t do it or itā€™ll look like theyā€™re following the Dems lead, and they must disagree with Dems at all costs. So by simply stating the obvious path forward for the extremists, heā€™s poisoning the well and making it more difficult for that to actually happen.