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Hakeem Jeffries just doesn’t want to know about the monsters he’s trying to elect

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“I haven’t followed these allegations closely,” pleaded House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries when pushed on one of the hottest stories in DC and nationally, Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner’s ugly alleged past with women.

He then dodged another question about Platner’s antisemitic efforts to paint his opponent as an Israeli pawn and refused to engage about New Jersey House nominee Dr. Adam Hamawy’s links to al Qaeda and friendship with convicted terrorist Omar Abdel-Rahman, the “blind sheikh.”

Jeffries did volunteer that he’s 100% against “violence against women” and antisemitism, too........

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