A Midwestern state party chairman is off to a good start in his bid to become Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairman.
“I am running for Chairman of the Democratic National Committee,” Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labor Leader Ken Martin announced in a social media post Tuesday.
Mr. Martin joins current Democratic National Committee Chairman Jamie, who is not expected to seek a second four-year term early next year after the Democratic Party suffered a significant vote loss in this month's election. He is the second candidate to run to replace Mr. Harrison.
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File photo of Ken Martin, leader of the Minnesota Democratic Farmers Labor Party. (Chairman Ken Martin)
Former two-term Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate who has served as the Social Security Executive in President Biden's administration over the past year, announced his candidacy on Monday.
Martin has led the Minnesota Democratic Party for more than a decade, serving as vice chair of the DNC and a leader in the state Democratic Party Chairs Association.
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“When I took over the Minnesota DFL, we were in debt and in disarray. But we brought people together, built winning coalitions, and delivered results. I am committed to rebuilding the party. We are ready to work on it,” Martin said on his social media. post.
“If you're looking for a DC creature, it's not me. But I know how the DNC works and how it doesn't work,” Martin said in an accompanying video. emphasized.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Jamie Harrison speaks at the Democratic National Committee Winter Meeting in Philadelphia on February 4, 2023. (Fox News)
He stressed that Democrats “need to reconnect our party and candidates with the ideas we know are popular in red, blue and purple states across the country.”
Martin said he is running for DNC chairman with the support of more than 80 DNC members. The next DNC chair will be chosen by the approximately 450 voting members of the national party committee.
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“We must connect our party to the most important place in America: the kitchen table of every family. Jobs, opportunity, and economic security for all. Get things done,” O'Malley said in a statement. Especially, hope.” It’s now a 50-state strategy,” O’Malley emphasized in a social media post.
Former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley speaks at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics on April 24, 2018 in Manchester, New Hampshire. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)
O'Malley and Martin are the first two candidates to announce their candidacy, but others will follow as Democrats try to bounce back after losing the White House and Senate in the 2024 election and failing to take back the House. It is expected that
Another potential candidate is Ben Wikler, chairman of the Wisconsin Democratic Party.
