Ken Martin, the long -standing leader of the organization of the State Democratic Party in Minnesota, will be the president of the national committee of the new Democrat after winning the elections on Saturday, while his party seeks to turn the page and Return a dark 2024.
Martin had been the favorite at the start of the race, taking advantage of his relations with more than 400 voting members of the DNC which he forged during more than a decade of work within the institutional Democratic Party. And these relations were essential because it won the majority of the members of the vote on the first ballot.
The race armed more about the organization and fundraising of candidates instead of becoming a battle for the ideological soul of the party, as it did in 2017, after the election of President Donald Trump. Martin was the most experienced hand in the deep relations of the party, the president of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, Ben Wikler.
Addressing the DNC membership after his victory, Martin called for party unity after a relatively silent race which sometimes made Chippy, and so that the party focuses on opposing President Donald Trump.
“”We have a team the Democratic Party and we have a fight. The fight is not here, it is there, “he said.
“The fight at the moment is against Donald Trump and the billionaires who bought this country.”
Now Martin will be responsible for helping to withdraw the Democrats from the hole in which they finished 2024, a devastating electoral cycle which left them without any of the levers of power in Washington. But while Martin will help lead the party, the Democrats do not necessarily lean towards him to be the pre -eminent leader of the party.
“We are a part outside the power, so we do not have a leader. And I am thinking largely, philosophically, someone could say that this person would be our party leader. This is not really true, “said Matt Corridoni, a veteran democratic strategist who worked for the DNC in the past and also worked on a previous race for the DNC chair.
“I do not know that anyone who has ever really turned to the most recent DNC chairs and said that this person was a leader of our party,” continued Corridoni.
This notion is not lost for Martin, who supervised the role of president during his campaign as doing the important work of construction of the party which will put the basics of the party candidates to use the ballot.
“We must exploit the rich, rich and rich diversity of elected officials that we have in all this country which currently delivers our party values at the moment,” said Martin. “The DNC chair is just a spokesperson, but we have so many other spokespersons where we should exploit. Instead of sending celebrities, we have to send workers to talk to workers, we should send other people to speak who are messengers and confidence validators. »»
“My job is to go out and define the Republicans,” said Martin. “I will take the low road to be able to take the high road. I’m going to punch so that they don’t have to do it, and we’re going to offend Donald Trump. This is the role I will play as a spokesperson, and I will also be the chief organizer of our party. “”
The frontrunners were widely agreed during the race on what the DNC had to do before: ensuring that the party has the resources necessary to challenge each breed through each state and territory, by adopting a permanent organizational posture for Helping to establish relations between the party and its sound the potential voters and a post-mortem look at the expenses of the Democratic Party, after having failed at the presidential level despite the considerably expenses of Trump and the Republicans. All the candidates also spoke of pushing to transmit their message to the new media while highlighting the new messengers in part as a means of solving a deeper problem – a democratic sub -performance with young people and Hispanic voters.
Throughout the race to succeed the outgoing president of the DNC, Jaime Harrison, Martin presented himself as the experienced choice of taking the reins of the organization of the party. More than a decade of experience leading the Minnesota party, he regularly praised his undefeated record in the races throughout the state, arguing that his state was a Democratic Espoir Phare while the party has taken losses Important in other states of the Midwest “blue wall”.
As head of the Association of State Democratic Chairs and Vice-President of the National Party Committee, combined with his file, Martin had developed relations with party members to help him consolidate the necessary votes to get out Victorious despite a last -minute push from Wikler.
These relations helped Martin Amass at around 200 public mentions from the DNC voting organization, much more than any other candidate. And while Wikler praised the support of the best Democrats in Congress, Martin hung his own high-level endorsements, notably the governor of Minnesota Tim Walz, the 2024 vice-presidential candidate of the Democrats, and the representative James Clyburn of Caroline du Caroline South, the powerful member of the Congress who helped Jumstart Joe Bidendie de Biden 2020.
During a brief speech to the DNC poverty council on Thursday afternoon, Martin underlined the involvement of Trump according to which an emphasis on diversity, equity and inclusion programs were to be blamed for the collision Wednesday evening tragic plane in Washington, DC
“We have to unify quickly as a party because the issues have never been higher for this nation. What we have seen these last two weeks is despicable. They break the lives of people, they already destroy communities for two weeks, “said Martin, before describing his childhood raised by a young mother in poverty,” in and out of shelters “.
“Our fight right now is for workers in all this country,” added Martin. “Think of Donald Trump’s administration, their office is worth $ 460 billion. Not the upper 1%, the 100th upper 1%. Do you think they care about people like me, people like you or workers and families like mine who are struggling? … Our fight at the moment is a fight for the future and it is a fight for workers and it is a fight for people who are trying to enter the middle class. »»
