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18 Nov, 7 tweets, 3 min read
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has secured her caucus’s nomination for another term leading the House as Democrats kicked off their multi-day leadership elections for the new Congress today politico.com/news/2020/11/1…
Pelosi is running unopposed and only needed a simple majority of the Democratic Caucus during the secret ballot vote. But she’ll still have to clinch 218 votes on the House floor in January to officially become speaker. politico.com/news/2020/11/1…
Democrats will also nominate House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) for new terms — cementing the trio that has ruled the caucus for the last 14 years politi.co/2IMIAHD

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The caucus is expected to run through at least two more uncontested positions today, after Pelosi and Jeffries, who was nominated as caucus chair. The process is expected to take hours. Members will then cast their ballots remotely using an iPhone app. politico.com/news/2020/11/1…
Democratic officials have scrambled in recent weeks to set up an entirely remote voting process for members, eager to avoid any kind of in-person gathering amid soaring coronavirus cases both in D.C. and across the country politico.com/news/2020/11/1…
House Democratic Caucus Chair Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and his team ultimately designed an encrypted app to be automatically downloaded on member’s iPhones, which will keep each lawmaker’s vote secret even to the vote counters. Test votes were also held. politi.co/2IMIAHD
This is in contrast to House Republicans, who conducted their leadership elections in-person at a D.C. hotel yesterday after receiving a special waiver from the city politico.com/news/2020/11/1…

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