{"id":531465,"date":"2022-12-26T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/whos-the-new-no-4-democrat-there-may-be-a-dispute\/"},"modified":"2022-12-26T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T11:00:00","slug":"whos-the-new-no-4-democrat-there-may-be-a-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/whos-the-new-no-4-democrat-there-may-be-a-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"#Who\u2019s the new No. 4 Democrat? There may be a dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4133207b73e\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4133207b73e\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/whos-the-new-no-4-democrat-there-may-be-a-dispute\/#Whos_the_new_No_4_Democrat_There_may_be_a_dispute\" >Who\u2019s the new No. 4 Democrat? There may be a dispute<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Whos_the_new_No_4_Democrat_There_may_be_a_dispute\"><\/span>Who\u2019s the new No. 4 Democrat? There may be a dispute<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/clyburnjames_lieuted_122322gn_split_no.4.png?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>As Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) scrambles to shore up enough GOP support to become the next Speaker, House Democrats are gr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ling with a question swirling around their own leadership hierarchy next year: Who, in fact, is the No. 4 Democrat?<\/p>\n<p>Most in the caucus presume that ranking falls to Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.), who will assume the assistant leader spot in the next Congress. Clyburn is a powerful a 30-year veteran lawmaker \u2014 and a senior member of the Congressional Black Caucus \u2014 who played an instrumental role in President Biden\u2019s successful White House run.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Yet Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), the incoming vice chairman of the Democratic Caucus, is subtly questioning that hierarchy.<\/p>\n<p>The vice chair has always been ranked just below the caucus chair, and because the caucus chair in the 118th Congress will be the No. 3 position, why wouldn\u2019t the vice chair be No. 4?<\/p>\n<p>The answer has been complicated by the Democrats\u2019 soon-to-be minority status, which clipped a seat from their leadership roster, and by a confusing reshuffling of the pecking order that followed this year\u2019s midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>The last time the Democrats were in the minority, the caucus chair seat was the No. 4 position, below minority leader, the Democratic whip and the assistant leader. But that hierarchy was altered following this year\u2019s midterm elections, when the new caucus chair \u2014 Rep. Pete Aguilar (Calif.) \u2014\u00a0jumped up to the No. 3 spot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The promotion was designed to keep intact the incoming triumvirate of new leaders \u2014 Reps. Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.), Katherine Clark (Mass.) and Aguilar \u2014\u00a0to replace the longstanding Democratic team of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), Steny Hoyer (Md.) and Clyburn, who have led the party for almost two decades.<\/p>\n<p>While Pelosi and Hoyer have stepped out of leadership altogether, Clyburn ran successfully\u00a0to keep a spot within the party brass as assistant leader\u00a0\u2014\u00a0a position first created by Pelosi the last time Democrats lost their House majority, in 2010.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Clyburn\u2019s decision caught many Democrats by surprise, and it had a domino effect up and down the leadership ladder.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Not only did it force Aguilar \u2014\u00a0who was initially eying the assistant leader spot \u2014\u00a0to seek the caucus chair position instead, it pushed Rep. Joe Neguse (D-Colo.), who had already declared his candidacy for the caucus chairmanship, to seek a new position atop the Democrats\u2019 messaging arm rather than take on Aguilar.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In all the reshuffling, it was never explicitly stipulated what the hierarchy beneath Jeffries, Clark and Aguilar would be. Internal rules for the House Democratic caucus list no specific order for the various leadership positions, although it\u2019s been widely held that the rankings of each seat are reflected in the order of the closed-door elections that decide them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>That informal system was muddled this year, however, because Clyburn was not in Washington on the day that the other top leaders \u2014\u00a0Jeffries, Clark, Aguilar and Lieu \u2014\u00a0were elected. Clyburn returned the following day to secure his assistant leader spot uncontested, after Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.)\u00a0withdrew a last-minute challenge.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The issue is a delicate one, and few members of the leadership team have wanted to touch it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Neither Clyburn\u2019s office, nor Aguilar\u2019s, responded to a request for comment on Friday.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Lieu also declined to comment in any detail. But when asked about the leadership hierarchy, he showed a reporter a picture of a press conference earlier this month featuring four members of the incoming leadership team: Jeffries, Clark, Aguilar and himself.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere, see?\u201d said Lieu, a military veteran who will be the highest-ranking Asian American in the next Congress. \u201cOther than that, I have no idea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From a practical standpoint, the question of which lawmaker is No. 4 is essentially meaningless.<\/p>\n<p>The duties and titles of neither the vice chair nor the assistant leader would change based upon their numerical ranking. And given the personalities constituting the incoming leadership team, rank-and-file Democrats said they don\u2019t anticipate any internal frictions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the rankings could be significant at some point down the line, some lawmakers said, if a vacancy emerges within the leadership team \u2014 or the House flips back to Democratic control \u2014 and questions of succession emerge.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Majority Leader Hoyer, who is stepping out of leadership in the next Congress, said party leaders \u201cought to resolve\u201d the leadership dispute. But he also made clear that it was a job for the incoming team, not the outgoing one.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow that they are in these exalted positions, they are gonna have to make those decisions,\u201d said a chuckling Hoyer.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mychael Schnell contributed.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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