Hakeem Jeffries Reportedly Overhauls Messaging Strategy To Counter Trump, GOP

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has made moves over the past several months to bolster his communications team and develop a new messaging strategy countering President Donald Trump, NOTUS reported Monday.

Jeffries is moving to revamp his messaging strategy and also expand his communications team in an attempt to help assure fellow Democrats that he is making an effort to oppose Trump’s agenda, several anonymous sources told NOTUS. This comes following several reports of Democrats criticizing Jeffries’ leadership as well as his approach to combating the president’s second administration.

One source told NOTUS that due to the “noisy” news cycle, some people believe that Jeffries is not pushing back against Republican leaders’ policies enough.

“We’re taking on a lot of fights — Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, all the policy things,” one anonymous source told NOTUS. “But I also think that the news cycle is so noisy that people think that we’re not fighting.”

An anonymous House Democrat told NOTUS that Jeffries is “trending in the right direction,” but added that “there’s a lot of room for improvement.” The same Democrat told the outlet that some House members have explicitly expressed concerns to Jeffries about his approach to opposing the Trump administration.

“We need to step it up in terms of the coordinated message and taking gloves off,” the Democratic lawmaker told NOTUS.