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"The race for DNC chair heats up
By BRAKKTON BOOKER and JESSE NARANJO 01/14/2025 12:40 PM EST
Democrats, who by this time next week will be completely shut out of power in Washington, are still grappling with a key question: Who will lead them into the future?
The search for a new party boss following their devastating electoral defeat to Donald Trump officially kicked off over the weekend, with the first of four DNC-sanctioned candidate forums to be held in January. But the top contenders, for all their talk on how the party needs to win back working-class voters, barely addressed their losses with Black and Latino voters — or the need to course correct Democrats’ messaging on immigration.
Many insiders consider the race for DNC chair to be a two-person contest between Ben Wikler, the head of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, and Ken Martin, the longtime leader of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. Both are white guys from Upper Midwestern states with little daylight between them on their ideas to reshape Democrats’ electoral strategy.
At the Saturday forum, neither Martin nor Wikler delivered specifics for how they would bring voters of color back into the fold.
Martin acknowledged that “we lost a lot of ground with voters in 2024 from Black and brown voters, rural voters, Latino voters, Southern voters and working-class voters, young voters.”
And Wikler vowed to appoint racial minorities and other marginalized groups to top DNC posts to “make sure we have a full leadership team that lifts up our whole coalition.”"
Let me guess, both are leftists? Am I right? The journalists felt the need to point out the fact that both are <gasp> white males.
By BRAKKTON BOOKER and JESSE NARANJO 01/14/2025 12:40 PM EST
Democrats, who by this time next week will be completely shut out of power in Washington, are still grappling with a key question: Who will lead them into the future?
The search for a new party boss following their devastating electoral defeat to Donald Trump officially kicked off over the weekend, with the first of four DNC-sanctioned candidate forums to be held in January. But the top contenders, for all their talk on how the party needs to win back working-class voters, barely addressed their losses with Black and Latino voters — or the need to course correct Democrats’ messaging on immigration.
Many insiders consider the race for DNC chair to be a two-person contest between Ben Wikler, the head of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, and Ken Martin, the longtime leader of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. Both are white guys from Upper Midwestern states with little daylight between them on their ideas to reshape Democrats’ electoral strategy.
At the Saturday forum, neither Martin nor Wikler delivered specifics for how they would bring voters of color back into the fold.
Martin acknowledged that “we lost a lot of ground with voters in 2024 from Black and brown voters, rural voters, Latino voters, Southern voters and working-class voters, young voters.”
And Wikler vowed to appoint racial minorities and other marginalized groups to top DNC posts to “make sure we have a full leadership team that lifts up our whole coalition.”"
Let me guess, both are leftists? Am I right? The journalists felt the need to point out the fact that both are <gasp> white males.
