Ken Martin, the newly installed president of the National Democratic Committee, is starting his first important trip as the party leader in an effort for the organization “to leave DC”
Martin’s trip, which begins on Monday, will take him to key swing states, including Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, the blue state of Illinois and two red states, Texas and Missouri, according to the details of the journey shared with NBC News. The stops on the trip will include a meeting with the Siderurgic workers of United in Pittsburgh, meetings with the presidents of the State Democratic Party in Illinois and Missouri, and a birth for the Democratic candidate of the House of Representatives, Dan Goughnour, before his March special choice outside Pittsburgh.
“It’s time for DNC to leave DC, that means getting out of our comfort zone, having difficult but honest conversations with voters and demonstrating that we are willing to fight for people. The Democrats will win organizing everywhere, competing throughout the vote in each community and joining the working families of all origins, “Martin told NBC News in a statement.
He then criticized President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk, arguing that they have a plan to “give billions of dollars to billionaires by reducing things such as medical care for children, older people and rural communities, and we cannot let that happen” .
“It’s time for Democrats to appear at 3,244 counties, red, purple, blue, to present our case,” Martin added.
Martin won the presidency earlier this month at the DNC winter meeting, after more than a decade as the leader of the State Democratic Labor Party of Minnesota. He has also held senior roles within the National Party apparatus during that time.
Throughout his campaign to lead the party, Martin presented his vision for the president of DNC as a multifaceted, helping to build the infrastructure of the party throughout the country and the territories of the United States, which embark on a “subsequent subsequent review To the elections “, carrying the message from the party to new points of sale new messengers, and are also offended against Trump and their policies.
The decision to start his time leading the match with the cross -country tour speaks of the need for the party to underpin his position throughout the country and with multiple voting blocks, after a presidential election in which former vice president Kamala Harris lost The seven of the main swing states and lost ground with key pieces of the democratic base, including Latinos and young voters.
When journalists asked shortly after their victory what their first priorities would be as president, Martin said he wanted to look at the finances of the party, start that “review after the elections” and then start taking the fight to Trump.
“We need to start dating right now, when bets are so high. If we are not willing to start the fight against Donald Trump, and he is already failing the American people, no one will believe that we are going to fight for them when they put us in power, “he said.
“So we will be aggressive to litigating the case against Donald Trump. We will be aggressive about defending a war room to return against the campaigns of misinformation and misinformation that we have already seen in the last two weeks, “Martin said.” And we will make sure to start the planning process of preparing for ’25, ’26 and then, of course, ’28 “.
During an interview in “Morning Joe” by MSNBC on Monday, announcing the trip, Martin acknowledged that the game’s brand has recently received significant success, and linked the trip as a way of reconnecting the game with the voters.
“Many parts of our coalition left us this last electoral cycle, right?” said. “We know that. From the Latin voters to the households of the working class, the young voters, the women. They can go through the list, the only two groups that we exceed with the last electoral cycle were rich and voting homes with university education .
Later, he said that the Democrats have begun to “send a message to increasingly small parts of our coalition, and as a result we have lost the narrative, who we are as a Democratic party.”
When asked about how to make the line between resisting Trump and not lacking respect for those who voted for him, Martin has to fight the Republicans but not remain in a position of “perpetual resistance.”
“But we also need to give people an idea of who we are as Democrats, what we believe and why we are fighting,” he added.
