The passed a resolution condemning socialism on Tuesday evening, with all but eight House Democrats voting against it.
The resolution passed 220 to 192 with all “no” votes coming from the left, including Democrats senior leaders: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., House Minority Whip Katherine Clark, D-Mass., and House Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar, D-Calif.
The legislation also affirmed support for election integrity and called for passage of the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which nearly all Democrats oppose.
In a stunning twist of fate, however, the vote would not have occurred if two House Democrats hadn’t stepped in hours earlier to help the GOP through a procedural hurdle â blindsiding Jeffries in the process.
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House conservatives had threatened to tank a procedural vote, called a “rule vote,” meant to unlock debate on several bills GOP leaders wanted lawmakers to vote on this week. That included the resolution condemning socialism and several other unrelated bills.
Five Republicans voted against the rule, which was poised to fail until Reps. Jared Golden, D-Maine, and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash., provided two critical votes to get the GOP over the finish line in a narrow 209 to 208 vote.
All Republicans wound up voting in favor of the resolution condemning socialism and affirming election integrity on Tuesday evening, however.
Golden and Gluesenkamp Perez were among the Democrats who joined the GOP in that vote, as well as Reps. Don Davis, D-N.C., Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas, Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, Kathy Castor, D-Fla., and Darren Soto, D-Fla. Reps. Maggie Goodlander, D-N.H., and Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa., voted “present.”
Socialism has dominated the 2026 midterm election season on both sides of the aisle. Democrats are grappling with a far-left insurgency within their ranks as candidates linked to the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) continue to topple incumbents and establishment-backed candidates across the country.
It’s provided fodder for the House GOP while it fights an uphill battle to keep control of Congress in November as Republicans warn the socialist left will take over the Democratic Party if it wins.Â
“Today’s vote ripped off the mask. House Democrats are so beholden to their socialist leaders they will rubber stamp their far-left radical policies the second they get the chance,” Mike Marinella, a spokesman for House Republicans’ campaign arm, told Fox News Digital.
Rep. Jeff Crank, R-Colo., who led the resolution, told Fox News Digital, “The resolution is pretty easy, right? It condemns socialism in all its forms, including the DSA, recommits ourselves to the Constitution of the United Statesâ¦a third point is that we don’t want non-citizens voting in elections.”
“They can certainly be critical, but it’s just a quick choice for the American people to see where people stand on this stuff,” Crank said.
But Democrats contended that Republicans’ largely symbolic resolution was a meaningless political exercise that does nothing to help Americans with their everyday problems. Many on the left have also dismissed the GOP’s election integrity efforts as voter suppression.
“So you’re concerned about rising gas, or are you concerned about grocery prices? You know, don’t worry. Republicans in Congress are passing another non-binding resolution condemnin
