Jeffries Tries to Persuade Wary Maryland Senate Leader on Redistricting

The state’s Senate president, a fellow Democrat, told the U.S. House minority leader that most of his caucus opposes the mid-cycle map.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries speaks at a press conference in Washington on Nov. 10, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) traveled to the Maryland State House on Wednesday to personally lobby the state’s Senate president to hold a floor vote on a new congressional map, but left without a commitment as intraparty tensions over mid-cycle redistricting sharpened ahead of a looming candidate filing deadline.

Jeffries met with Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson—who has publicly opposed any mid-decade redistricting in Maryland—making the case that the state’s Democratic-controlled Senate should put the map to an up-or-down vote.