Rep.-elect Don Leonard of Ohio said Tuesday that “senior members of the Democratic House” have threatened to make his life “a living hell” unless he backs, without conditions, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to be the next Speaker of the House.

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      Yes but Mandani cannot be President, unfortunately.

      Constitutionally, naturalized citizens cannot be President.

      El-Sayed, however, can.

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        Yes he can’t be president, but no reason he can’t be governor of New York for 2 terms and then become senator. He’s young enough to do 2 terms as mayor, 2 terms as governor, and still enter the senate significantly younger than the average age

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          Yeah absolutely. I just wonder if when Republicans are at their weakest and AOC is about to make a move if he wouldn’t have some synergistic amplification in the timing of his own move in 2028. Governors have use (thanks to them, Dems may be able to gut the electoral college), but personally I’d rather be a US Senator if the path to the Presidency is closed.

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        Ah, I didn’t even consider that because I don’t generally think of people in those terns.