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The field of candidates to become the next chairman of the Democratic National Committee has narrowed after a long-running candidate dropped out and supported by Ken Martin, Chairman of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party of Minnesota.
Martin, a DNC vice chair who has led the state Democratic Party chairmen’s association, has been considered one of the leaders for the DNC job.
Martin received a boost after New York State Sen. James Skoufis dropped out of the race and endorsed him, The politician has reported thursday morning
Skoufis told the outlet in a statement that Martin “will refocus on what’s most important to our party: expanding the map and rebuilding our once-big Democratic tent by taking power out of the DC Beltway and kicking out the out-of-touch consultant. class to the brim.”
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Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party Chairman Ken Martin speaks at the Minnesota DFL Party Election Watch Party at the InterContinental Hotel in Saint Paul, Minnesota on November 5, 2024. (Christopher Mark Juhn/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Democrats suffered major setbacks up and down the ballot 2024 elections when former President Trump took back the White House and the GOP flipped the Senate and kept its fragile majority in the House.
Martin told Fox News Digital last month that if he becomes president, the first thing he would do is “figure out a plan to win.”
Minnesota DFL Party Chairman Ken Martin, a leading candidate in the race for Democratic National Committee chairman, at the DNC executive committee meeting on December 12, 2024 in Washington DC (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)
“And we need to start writing that plan, making sure we’re looking under the hood,” he said. “How much money do we have in the party? What are the contracts? What contracts do we have to get rid of? And frankly, bringing all of our stakeholders together, that’s the biggest thing.”
Two other top contenders in the DNC race are Ben Wickler, who has led the state Democratic Party in the battleground state of Wisconsin since 2019, and Martin O’Malley, the former two-term governor of Maryland and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate who served as commissioner of the Social Security Administration last year.
Current DNC Chair Jaime Harrison he is not asking for another four-year term to lead the party’s national committee. The next chairman will be chosen by the roughly 450 voting members of the party’s national committee when they gather Feb. 1 at National Harbor in Maryland for the DNC’s winter meeting.
Fox News Digital’s Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
