Ken Martin, the longtime leader of the state Democratic Party organization in Minnesota, will be the new Democratic National Committee chair after winning Saturday’s election, as his party looks to turn the page and recover from a dismal 2024.
Martin was elected Saturday morning in a vote by 448 members of the Democratic National Committee. His move to the national stage now sets up a contest for the role of Minnesota DFL chair.
Democrats on elected Ken Martin, the party leader in Minnesota, as the national chair, turning to a low-profile Midwestern political operative to coordinate their resistance to Trump’s presidency.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Saturday elected Ken Martin as its next party chair, in the wake of major setbacks up and down the ballot in the 2024 elections.
Ken Martin, the head of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, was decisively elected chair of the Democratic National Committee on Saturday, beating a crowded field in the first round of voting to become the new face of a party struggling to find its footing during the second Trump administra…
Without control of the White House or Congress, the new DNC chair, Minnesota's Ken Martin, will lead a Democratic Party that is still figuring out its future after a bruising election.
Ken Martin, the chair of Minnesota's Democratic Farmer Labor party, was elected the new chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Martin won a majority vote among DNC members on the first ballot, 246.5 to 134.5 for Ben Wikler, the chair of the Wisconsin Democratic Party.
Democrats elected longtime party operative Ken Martin to serve as the next chairman of the DNC as it looks to rebuild from wipeout elections in 2024 which delivered unified control of government to the Republican party.
Democrats are starting to plan a path forward for their party after major losses in the 2024 elections. They started by choose a new party chair on Saturday.
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