{"id":101560,"date":"2026-09-07T21:43:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T21:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wegmann-jeffries-has-work-to-do-this-is-not-the-unity-that-youd-expect-of-a-party-that-is-about-to-take-power\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T21:43:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T21:43:04","slug":"wegmann-jeffries-has-work-to-do-this-is-not-the-unity-that-youd-expect-of-a-party-that-is-about-to-take-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wegmann-jeffries-has-work-to-do-this-is-not-the-unity-that-youd-expect-of-a-party-that-is-about-to-take-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Wegmann: Jeffries Has Work To Do, &#8220;This Is Not The Unity That You&#8217;d Expect Of A Party That Is About To Take Power&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> On &#8216;Special Report,&#8217; Philip Wegmann talked about Democrat defections in recent votes and how Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries plans to respond to those defections:  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>PHILIP WEGMANN: The question is whether or not Representative Hakeem Jeffries is going to rule his caucus in the same way that Nancy Pelosi did. With an iron fist. And right now you have Democrats that really feel that they are within grasp of that house majority. This is not the unity that you&#8217;d expect of a party that is about to take power. Ultimately, will this present some type of electoral speed bump? I doubt it. It shows at bare minimum that Jeffries has work to do the same way that Republicans like Speaker Mike Johnson and Kevin McCarthy before him had to do to shore up their party before they picked up the gavel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/09\/03\/wegmann_jeffries_has_work_to_do_this_is_not_the_unity_that_youd_expect_of_a_party_that_is_about_to_take_power.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On &#8216;Special Report,&#8217; Philip Wegmann talked about Democrat defections in recent votes and how Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries plans to respond to those defections: PHILIP WEGMANN: The question is whether or not Representative Hakeem Jeffries is going to rule his caucus in the same way that Nancy Pelosi did. With an iron fist. And right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[324,2159,22367,625,2715,8931,22479,1143,13607],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}