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Ken Martin, the head of the Fara Ball Party of Minnesota Democratic Party, was decisively elected to the Chair of the Democratic National Committee on Saturday, breaking the crowded field in the first round of the poll and finding the scaffold. During the second Trump administration, which has become a new face of the party.
Martin, who led the Minnesota party and led eight years as the Vice -chairman of the DNC, has emerged as an early racing front runner in the long -standing relationship with the major voting block. Through the campaign, he emphasized his achievements: Minnesota DFL has not lost a single racing since taking over the party.
Currently, Martin is in charge of a new challenge. We will strengthen and change the KMT to withstand the second Trump administration.
“We’re going to work,” Martin said in his acceptance speech on Saturday. “We go there and take this battle to Donald Trump.”
The election of the new party leaders has been working on the most effective way to challenge the rapids of the spurning behavior by Trump White House, so this week, the president’s fatal DC airplane collision and federal funding. It includes the blame of diversity’s initiative due to the collision of a fatal DC airplane, which is a Cabinet candidate that has been canceled within 48 hours in a wide range of rebounds. The confirmation hearing of the person has been withdrawn.
Three candidates have appeared as the top candidate for the Democratic Party National Committee: Martin, Ben Wikla, the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, and former Governor of Maryland Martin Omary.
The people who wanted the party’s top work showed that without the people of the people, the Democratic Party had not been working on what the Democratic Party called the “Mixed OS” for the past few days. 。 During the final candidate forum on Friday, the chairperson asked him to raise his hand if he felt that the Democratic Party responded “sufficiently” in the first two weeks of Trump’s second term. Most candidates, including Martin, Wikler, and O’Malley, held their hands down.
“Now, our party is frankly there is no waste. David Hogg, a gun control activist who runs for the vice-chairman of DNC AT-LARGE, states: “We need leadership. We need a vision of the route to move forward, which is one of the most important parts of these elections.”
In addition to the next chair, DNC members select seven additional officers. Vice -chairman of citizens involvement and voters. Accounting Section; Secretary; National Finance Chair. Three large -scale secondary chairs.
Without a democratic president in the White House, the party leader will be destroyed in the next four years. Along with both the House of Representatives and the Senate, the focus of Capitol Hills is aimed at blocking Trump’s agenda, rather than proceeding with the priority of the party’s policy.
Martin seems to rebound from a loss that stabbed last November, so he is in charge of helping to move forward. In addition to financing and messaging, Martin will also use the 2028 nomination process and create a final campaign for the final Democratic candidate.
He also needs to unite the committee and deal with some internal issues, such as anger about the waves of Reof, the improvement of the budget and expenditure, and dissatisfaction with the campaign consultant.
Haime Harrison, who retired, mentioned some of the tensions in the top of the election. He accused some of the DNC members threatening, pressure, or threatening by the donors who said they would refrain from voting.
“The party has no tolerance for that kind of behavior,” said Harrison. “In this country, we have to be united because there are too many in crisis now.”
In particular, the leaders of the state of the state other than Battle Ground pledged to invest more in the state of the chair, and the members of the rank and file are more than accessing the exclusive committee consisting of appointed people. I was looking for a democratized process.
“I’ve never attended the DNC conference I left. I said,” Yes, I learned something, “” said Stephanie, one of the young DNC members of the United States Democratic Party and one of Martin’s supporters. Kampanha Weaton told C NN. “You appear, you are a pawn, and you will nod your head to everything you have already decided in a committee that you do not know how people are on.”
At the center of the leadership election is the desire to understand the party’s 2024 losses and describe the path from political obstruction. The question is more than 12 forums, focusing on how to recover young men and worker -class voters, how to fight false information, and how to use millions of people in the dollar in a party. Masu.
“It’s a sign of a healthy party that actually asks each other, discusses, and move forward,” said Wikler’s supporter and President Win -to -Way. Gavit said it was a co -sponsored women -led donor union. DNC forum with the Texas Democratic Party. “And in this discussion, the goal is to win.”
Martin first participated in the race, and thanks to the long -standing relationship with the leaders of various national political parties and other DNC members, he was the early front runner.
Joe Saras, a member of California DNC, who supported Martin, believed that Minnesota -chairman -chairman understood the important role of the local committee. At a personal level, he said he was the only high -ranked DNC leader who sent him a blessing card that welcomed him to DNC when Martin was selected last year.
“I go to his point about organizing all year round. I can’t come to someone a few months before the election and ask for something,” said Salas. “You need to make a deposit before withdrawing.”
Wiklers include DNC voting members in Kangzas, Laura Kelly, Andy Beser, Kentucky, Gretchen Whitmar in Michigan, Michel Ljang Grisham, New Mexico, and four large -scale public sector. We experienced the rapid increase in the latter half of the support promoted by the Governor’s Group. An union that published a joint statement.
Many of the DNC voters who supported Wikler pointed out his achievements in Wisconsin since he became the chairman in 2019.
“I felt that Ben Wikler has been able to build the power of workers and have been able to expand the party’s base,” said Randy Wine Garten, chairman of the U.S. Teacher Federation. Ta.
In addition to the AFT, Wikler was supported by the leaders of the US Federation, counties, and city employees. National Education Association; Service Employee International Union. Other unions divide their support to major candidates.
Omary, on the other hand, received public support from a handful of DNC members and famous Democrats, such as Virginia Senator Tim Kane. His criticism of Martin and Wikler was more pointed out on the last day of the race.
Prior to the deadline for the FEC on Friday night, the former governor ribs Wikla by refusing to open the list of donors to his chair campaign, and Martin’s support is a Thursday’s candidate forum. He suggested that he was not as strong as he could see when he gag with the reporter.
“I think it will be open for a bigger discussion when the inevitable front runner, who has been working on it for five years, indicates that it is completely inevitable,” he said.
For a few days to the election, the three top runners released dozens of major Democratic members, but some of them were voted in the election.
Immediately after Martin announced that it had been supported by South Carolina, a member of the Representative Jim Klyvarn, the support was helpful for former President Joe Biden to win the 2020 Democratic preliminary election.
One important Democratic member was not about who should be the chairman: former Vice President Kamara Harris. The party has been discussing what happened during the 2024 presidential election for a week, but Harris did not support the candidates in the race.
Harris spoke this week with the three major candidates in the race over the phone. On the phone that lasted about 15 to 20 minutes, the candidates discussed the party’s vision and expressed thanks to Harris for her candidate and commitment to be involved in the future of the party. The former President has promised to cooperate with the award -winning candidates as soon as it was elected.
“In a state from state, districts, districts, houses to lower house, door, you will work to give energy, organize, and mobilize,” Harris was the first round of the vote. I spoke in the video address. “And we will continue to fight for our ideals and continue to make American promises, I will be with you at all stages with you.”
This story and headline have been updated by additional development.
