Ken Martin, the leader of the Organization of the State Democratic Party in Minnesota, will be the new president of the National Democratic Committee after winning Saturday’s elections, while his party seeks to turn the page and recover from a sad 2024.
Martin had been the favorite since the beginning of the race, taking advantage of his relations with the more than 400 voters of the DNC who forged more than a decade of work within the Institutional Democratic Party. And those relationships proved to be essential, since most voting members were assured in the first vote.
The race depended more on the organization and collection of funds of the candidates instead of becoming a battle for the ideological soul of the party, as it did in 2017, after the previous electoral victory of President Donald Trump. Martin was the most experienced hand with the deep relationships of the party, the president of the Wisconsin Democratic Party, Ben Wikler.
When heading to the DNC membership after his victory, Martin asked for the unity of the party after a relatively quiet race that sometimes put Chippy, since the party concentrated on opposing President Donald Trump.
“We have a team from the Democratic Party, and we have a fight. The fight is not here, he is out there, ”he said.
“The fight at this time is against Donald Trump and the billionaires who bought this country.”
Now, Martin will have the task of helping the Democrats out of the hole where 2024 ended, a devastating electoral cycle that left them without any of the power levers in Washington. But while Martin will help lead the game forward, Democrats do not necessarily seek to be the preeminent party leader.
“We are a party for power, so we don’t have a leader. And I think in general terms, philosophically, someone could say that this person would be our party leader. That is not really true, “said Matt Corridoni, a veteran Democratic strategist who has worked for the DNC in the past and also worked in a previous race for the DNC chair.
“I don’t know if someone really looked at more recent DNC chairs and said that person was a leader of our party,” Corridoni continued.
That notion is not lost in Martin, who framed the role of the president during his campaign for doing the important work construction work that will establish the bases for party candidates to use by the ballot.
“We have to take advantage of the rich, rich and rich diversity of the elected officials we have throughout this country that are really fulfilling the values of our party at this time,” Martin said. “The DNC chair is just a spokesman, but we have many other spokesmen that we should take advantage of. Instead of sending celebrities, we must send workers to talk to workers, we must send other people to speak that they are messengers and trusted validators. “
“My work is to leave and define the Republicans,” Martin said. “I will take the way low so they can take the way. I will launch the blows so that they do not have to do it, and we will offend ourselves against Donald Trump. That is the role I will play as a spokesman, and I will also be the organizer in chief of our party. ”
The favorites were largely agreed during the race on what the DNC needed to do to advance: to ensure that the party has the resources to dispute each race in all states and territory, adopting a permanent organizational position to help build relationships between The party and its potential voters, and analyzing the expense of the Democratic Party, after it fell short at the presidential level despite significantly spending Trump and Republicans. All candidates also talked about pressing to take their message to the new media while highlighting the new messengers partly as a way of solving a deeper problem: the low democratic performance with young and Hispanic voters.
Throughout the race to happen to the outgoing president of DNC, Jaime Harrison, Martin was framed as the experience experienced to take the reins of the organization of the party. During a decade of experience leading the Minnesota party, he has regularly promoted his undefeated record in state races, arguing that his state has been a democratic lighthouse of hope, while the party has had important losses in other “blue wall” states of the west medium.
As head of the State Democratic President Association and vice president of the National Party Committee, combined with its history, Martin had developed relationships with members of the party to help him underpin the necessary votes to get victorious despite a last minute impulse of Wikler
Those relationships helped Martin accumulate about 200 public endorsements of the DNC voting agency, much more than any other candidate. And while Wikler promoted the support of the main Democrats of Congress, Martin hooked his account of his own high -profile backups, including the governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, the vice presidential candidate of the 2024 Democrats, and the representative James Clyburn de Carolina del Carolina del Carolina del Carolina del Carolina South, the powerful congressman who helped to boost Joestar Joee Joe. Biden presidential offer in 2020.
During a brief speech to the DNC Poverty Council on Thursday afternoon, Martin pointed out Trump’s involvement that a focus on diversity, equity and inclusion programs were guilty of the tragic collision of airplanes on Wednesday night In Washington, DC.
“We have to quickly unify as a party because bets have never been higher for this nation. What we have seen these last two weeks is despicable. They are destroying people’s lives, they are already destroying communities two weeks, “said Martin, before describing his childhood raised by a young mother in poverty,” inside and outside the shelters. ”
“Our fight is at this time for workers throughout this country,” Martin added. “Think about the Donald Trump administration, your cabinet is worth $ 460 billion. It is not the upper 1%, the upper 100 of 1%. Do you think people like me, people like you or working people like mine who are fighting? … Our fight at this time is a fight for the future and is a struggle for workers and is a struggle for people trying to enter the middle class. “
