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The same could be said for voting against Hoyer
The Democrats have a large margin in the House. It's going to get larger this year. The benefit of a campaign of this sort and the message it sends (and the potential to change behavior) vastly outweighs the risk that it will end up defeating a single bad Democratic House member and replacing him with one bad Republican. - GG
It is very likely that the Democrats will have a "real" majority in the Senate, too, after November. And even if a Republican were to replace Hoyer, he or she would not have the same seniority, and some new leadership would then be in order.
Sometimes a symbolic head on a pike can be very effective.