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It National Democratic Committee (DNC) On Saturday he chose the leader of the Minnesota party, Ken Martin, as the next National Chair, following the great mishap up and down in the vote in the elections of 2024.
Martin’s election is the first formal step of the party to try to bounce from the November election President Donald Trump He recovered the White House and the Republicans flew the Senate, maintained their fragile majority in the chamber and gained great gains with the working class, minorities and younger voters.
“We have a team, a team, the Democratic Party,” Martin said after his victory. “The struggle is for our values. The struggle is for the people working. The fight right now is against Donald Trump and the billionaires who bought this country.”
For the last eight years, Martin has been the Vice President of the DNC and has led the Association of State Democratic Party Chairs.
DNC’s final debate caused protests
The President of the Democratic Party of Minnesota, Ken Martin (left) and the President of Wisconsin, Ben Wikler (right), two main contestants in the career of the Democratic National Committee, at the meeting of the DNC Executive Committee, On December 12, 2024 in Washington, DC (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)
He surpassed the President of the Wisconsin Democratic Party Ben Wikler, for more than 100 votes among the 428 members of the DNC who released ballots when they met for the annual winter meeting of the party, which was held this year at the Maryland National Port, on the outskirts of Washington, DC
Martin O’Malley, the former governor of two Maryland terms and the 2016 Democratic Presidency candidate, who served as Commissioner for the Social Security Administration during former President Biden last year in office. , was a distant third in the vote.
Among Longshot candidates were Faiz Shakir, who led the 2020 Democratic Campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders de Vermont, and Marianne Williamson, who directed -unsuccessfully for the 2020 and 2024 democratic presidential nominations. Williamson goes Approve Martin on Saturday, before voting.
The eight race candidates were betting on success DNC Chair Jaime Harrison, who decided against the search for a second four -year term running the National Party Committee.
Without a clear leader in the party, the next DNC chair could become the de facto face of the Democrats from coast to coast and will make important decisions on messaging, strategy, infrastructure and where to spend millions on political contributions.
Candidates for the Democratic National Committee are involved in a Forum of the University of Georgetown in Washington, DC, on January 30, 2025. (Fox News Digital/Paul Steinhauser)
“It is an important opportunity for us not only to focus the party and what we present to the voters, but also an opportunity to look at how we governed internally,” Fox News Digital, President of the New Hampshire Democratic Party, told Fox News. Fox News Digital.
Buckley, a former DNC vice president who supported Martin, said he is “very excited about the potential of great reform within the party.” He emphasized that he was expecting “more significantly support to the State parties. This will be a critical step towards our return to the majority state.”
In his victory speech, Martin emphasized the unity and that the party needed to “rebuild our coalition”.
“We must continue with the crime,” Martin said. “We will go out and bring this struggle to Donald Trump and Republicans.”
Former Vice President Kamala Harris, who succeeded President Biden last July, while the standard 2024 party bearer spoke to Martin, Wikler and O’Malley the days before the Saturday election, Fox News confirmed. But Harris remained neutral in the vote of the party’s president.
In a video message to the audience as the chair vote was tab, Harris said that the DNC has a “hard work ahead”.
But he promised to be with the party “every step of the way”, which could be a signal of his future political ambitions.
The debate during the three -month DNC campaign focused mainly on the logistics of modern political campaigns, such as the media and messaging strategy, fundraising and organizing the base and the efforts of Vote. In these issues of nuts, candidates mainly agreed that changes are needed to recover the blue -neck voters who now support Republicans.
But the final forum included a strong approach to the programs of race and diversity, equity and inclusion (Dei), issues that seemed to hurt the Democrats at the November ballot box.
A protester is eliminated by security after having won in a debate on the election of the National Democratic Committee at the University of Georgetown in Washington, DC, on January 30, 2025. (Fox News/Paul Steinhauser)
The forum, moderate and lived live to MSNBC and was held at the University of Georgetown in Washington, DC, became the chaos soon, as a wave of left -wing protesters repeatedly interrupted the event of the Early, affecting the worries of climate change and the influence of the billionaires in America in America, the election before they were eliminated for safety.
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The President’s election took place as a new national survey, it was more problems for the Democrats.
Only 31% of respondents in a Quinnipiac University Survey Last week, he had a favorable opinion of the Democratic Party, with 57% watching the game in an unfavorable light.
“This is the highest percentage of voters who have an unfavorable opinion of the Democratic Party since the University of Quinnipiac University poll began asking this question,” the survey statement said.
In the meantime, 43% of the questions had a favorable vision of the GOP, with 45% with an unfavorable opinion, which was the most favorable opinion for the Republican party ever in the Quinnipiac poll.
