DNC chooses a new leader because he seeks to unite the party and return the voters of the working class.
Supporters and volunteers of DNC Chairman Ken Martin are encouraged outside the ballroom a few hours before the votes for the post at the Winter Democratic Committee at the National Resort and the Harbor Concentration Center, Massachusetts, on Saturday, February 1, 1 February, February 1, February 1, 2025.
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In the first official response of the Democratic Party to the devastating failures he suffered in the 2024 presidential election, members of the Democratic National Committee (DNA) elected Kena Martin on February 1. Martin, the well-viewing chairman of the Minnesota Democratic Party Port (DFL) won after honestly speaking with the members of the commission on the difficult circumstances of the party. “In November we hit our mouths,” he said. “A lot of people in this country will now need us to walk and chew a gum at the same time – that is, we will have to fight Donald Trump’s extremes as long as we are doing in the red and blue states about why they should trust us If the Trump’s agenda does not work with the Americans – which will definitely be there – we must be there with a legitimate alternative to this chaos. “
It was an implicit recognition of the mistakes of the Democrats made in 2024, when they spent so much time talking about the threats to Trump that there was little space to report that the party offered disturbing working families. At a time when 74 percent of the Americans said they were not satisfied with the country’s direction, Trump and Republicans – as hard and extreme, it was the best work on the sewer of this disappointment than the Democrats. This allowed Trump to provide greater support from the working class voters, young and Latinos, among other things. But the big story is like The New York Times He noted that “many Democrats landed in the election, allegedly shut down both candidates.”
Martin was not the only candidate for DNA, who acknowledged that the Democrats needed a more daring work agenda. His main competitor, Chairman of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin Ben Vicler, said: “Losses of the working class in 2024 should be a call to us as a party.” Wicler was supported by the key unions leaders, the minority leader Chuck Sumer, the minority leader of the Hockey Hockey Jeffreis, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Governors such as Greek. But this great support has only gained 134½ voting for Wisconsinit vs. 246½ votes per Martin.
Minnesota took advantage of the fact that he had been in the trenches for years as the head of the State Democratic Chairs Association. But as the vote approached, he also leaned against an urgent populist message that resonated with grassroots Democrats, which are not in the press, and passionate about moving resources to state parties; Accepting bolder priorities such as advanced access to health and care for children, climates and work rights; forging with multi-industrial, multi-ethnic, multi -igue urban and rural coalitions; And to distinguish democrats from Republicans on economic issues.
Having nominated Martin’s records in Minnesota, where DFL won 25 state elections, a spokesman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) stated that Martin-organizer was on his liking and was in the forefront on behalf of the workers, this is what the Democratic Party is still needed. ” A moment, “If so many voters feel disabled from politics,” said Omar, “Ken proved that when we interact with people all year round, we invest in grassroots infrastructure and build a real relationship, we win.”
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Minnesota Model Replication – Introduced in the Novy Speaker’s Teacher’s Politics, Progressive Paul Welstone – can be difficult. In recent years, the DNC has been so focused on raising funds that he was confronted with sharp criticism from veterans members such as James Zogby (who lost the application for the vice -chairman); They say that the party organization is too delayed by the requirements of the militia donors and high -paying consultants. Martin and Wicler evaded the adoption of the broadest requirements of the reformers, including calling for banning dark money in democratic primaries and any resistance of big money, as well as Senator Vermont Bernie Sanders. But Martin said Nation The fact that he is determined to do more attention to the raising money in small donors, and he won the confidence of activists such as Alan Minsk, Executive Director of the Progressive Democrats of America, who says a bold party that appeals to the people who were disappointed with both parties – To build a party that no longer prevails the elites, but really our party. “
Martin said as much as in his victorious address to the Committee, which presents reflections on the song of the historical union “What are you?” “We’re on the side of the robber, ultra-laddered billionaire, oil and gas pollutant, union?” he asked. “Are we on the side of the working family, the owner of the small business, the farmer, the immigrants, the students? Let me tell you: I know on which side I am.”
If Martin can give the Democratic Party of this level of clarity, he will be ready to take on Trump and Trump.
