Maryland State Port -Ken Martin, Chairman of the Minnesota Democratic Party, will become the new leader of the Democratic National Committee after winning the first round of voting, because the party tries to rebound from a challenging election cycle.
Martin hopes to gather after some controversial chairs.
Martin said: "The battle is not here. The battle is for our values. The battle is to fight for the working people. The current battle is the billionaire of Donald Trump and the buying country."
The position of Chairman DNC is mainly technical and behind -the -scenes: they help raise funds for the party, manage the top infrastructure of the party, and organize coordination efforts between democratic national parties. This race is mainly concentrated in the party's extensive response to the loss of 2024, especially when the support of the workers' class voters.
Saturday's election represents the first major answers of the Democratic Party on the 2024 presidential election. The election lost the White House and Senate and failed to recapture the House of Representatives.
The turbulent election cycle makes the party's roll up. In essence, there is no peculiar party leader. Democrats seeks information and vision that seeks victory in the mid -2026 and 2028 presidential elections.
Six candidates eventually caminated DNC on Saturday, including former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, Ben Wikler, chairman of Wisconsin Democratic Party, and Martin, leader of the Minnesota Democratic Army Martin Essence Senator Bernie Sanders Faiz Shakir, a former presidential campaign manager who worked hard in 2020, is also a competitor.
Martin won a chair game with 246.5 votes, Wikler was 134.5, O'Malley won 44 votes, and Shakir was twice.
Without the President of the Democratic Party of the White House, the new chairman will have a broad influence in the next few years. Although the tension in the competition has become more and more intense in recent weeks, the DNC leadership competition has hardly concentrated in ideology, which proves that the name of the Marquis lacking the possibility of ordinary voters.
The protesters interrupted the meeting before the vote, reflecting some trivial divisions. These split lasted the party in 2024 and continued after the victory of President Trump.
Martin went to a large number of party recognition in the Democratic parties voting in the game on Saturday. However, Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic Party leader of the House of Representatives. Get obvious support.
However, these outstanding names did not prevent Martin from winning the first vote on Saturday.