{"id":18939,"date":"2020-07-01T19:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T16:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/rep-meeks-reportedly-vying-for-eliot-engels-foreign-affairs-chairmanship\/"},"modified":"2020-07-01T19:50:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T16:50:00","slug":"rep-meeks-reportedly-vying-for-eliot-engels-foreign-affairs-chairmanship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/rep-meeks-reportedly-vying-for-eliot-engels-foreign-affairs-chairmanship\/","title":{"rendered":"#Rep. Meeks reportedly vying for Eliot Engel\u2019s Foreign Affairs chairmanship"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Rep. Meeks reportedly vying for Eliot Engel\u2019s Foreign Affairs chairmanship<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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July 1, 2020 |<\/span> 12:50pm <\/p>\n

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\n With Rep. Eliot Engel facing app<\/a>arent defeat in the New York primary, Democrats have already begun jostling behind closed doors to replace the chairman of the powerful House Foreign Affairs Committee, multiple sources told The Post.<\/p>\n

Rep. Gregory Meeks, one of Engel\u2019s New York congressional colleagues, is expected to make a play for the gavel along with Rep. Brad Sherman of California \u2014 a move made all the more awkward by the fact Engel has refused to concede the race, which he trails by 10,183 votes with 10,710 mail in ballots yet to be counted.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe body is not even dead yet,\u201d said a source close to the New York Congressional delegation, adding, \u201cMeeks is trying to build support.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sherman is next in line to chair the panel but is expected to face a stiff challenge from Meeks (D. Queens) who has the backing of the influential Black Congressional Caucus.<\/p>\n

\u201cGreg has been on the foreign relations committee the whole times he\u2019s been in the House,\u201d said another source close to the New York congressional delegation.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s done a lot working with Caribbean countries, South America and the South Pacific,\u201d the source added, noting the Queens lawmaker\u2019s work on helping eradicate the drug trade in Columbia.<\/p>\n

The source noted that Sherman has a year or two more seniority on the committee but added, \u201cthere\u2019s not enough people of color in leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, some of Meeks\u2019 foreign trip<\/a>s have raised eyebrows, including a junket to Azerbaijan in 2013 that was paid for by the country\u2019s state-owned oil company.<\/p>\n

Engel (D. Bronx) has refused to concede the race for New York\u2019s 16th Congressional District almost one week after his primary challenger, Jamaal Bowman, a Justice Democrats-backed former middle school teacher, declared victory.<\/p>\n

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Despite Bowman\u2019s large lead, Engel\u2019s camp is holding out hope that mail-in ballots can save him. He would need nearly every single mail-in vote to go his way.<\/p>\n

Whoever is picked for the top job will have play a crucial role is helping set America\u2019s foreign policy, particularly toward Israel, and will perform oversight of President Trump\u2019s foreign agenda which is currently being roiled by news<\/a> of an alleged Russia-Taliban bounty on US troops.<\/p>\n

Sherman made a play for the chairmanship in 2012 but was defeated.<\/p>\n

Another Democratic congressional source noted that Sherman isn\u2019t as well liked among his Democrat colleagues and said that a Black chairman was needed as the nation experiences a powerful reckoning on race in America.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this era, nobody is better suited than Greg Meeks to hold Trump accountable and begin the arduous process of repairing our relationships abroad,\u201d the source said, noting Trump\u2019s frosty relationship with some of America\u2019s allies.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s smart, well liked and has a tidal wave of support from the 54-member Congressional Black Caucus and others throughout Capitol Hill,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no question Greg Meeks should be the first Black chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neither Sherman nor Meeks\u2019 office responded to requests for comment.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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