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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries stunned Democratic colleagues by declining to endorse Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz's bid for Florida's redrawn 20th Congressional District, a plurality-Black seat she entered after GOP redistricting eliminated her current district. The decision reflects a widening fracture between Black Democratic leaders and party establishment figures over who should represent historically Black districts reshaped by Republican-led mid-decade redistricting following a Supreme Court ruling that weakened the Voting Rights Act.