House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday sought to take the fall for the failure of Democrats to flip control of the House in last week's elections. But his colleagues weren't buying it.

In a closed-door meeting of the House Democratic Caucus in the Capitol, Jeffries stood before his troops and said he was to blame for the Republicans' victory, according to a number of lawmakers in the room. The pushback, they said, was immediate.

"He stood up there today and said, 'It's all on me.' And the whole caucus started booing [as if to say], 'This is not on you,’” Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) said as he left the meeting.

“I just felt like he'd been stewing over this. …. Like: ‘We lost, I'm the top person. It's on me,’” Cleaver added. “And then the caucus did exactly what I........

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