National port, Maryland – Ken Martin, the president of the Democratic Party Minnesota group, will become the new leader of the Democratic National Committee after winning during the first voting round, as the party tries to bounce off a defiant election cycle.
In his acceptance speech, Martin sought to unify the party after a slightly controversial chairs career.
“The struggle is not here. The struggle is for our values. The struggle is for the working people. The struggle right now is against Donald Trump and the billionaires who bought this country,” said Martin.
The position of the DNC chair is mainly technical and behind the stage: they help raise money for the party, manage the party’s top -notch infrastructure and organize coordinated efforts between parties in the democratic state. The race has focused mainly on the party’s gravity in the widespread loss of 2024, especially when recovering the support of working -class voters.
The Saturday election represented the first major response of the Democrats to the 2024 presidential election, which saw the party losing the white house, the Senate and did not resume the chamber again.
The tumultuous electoral cycle has sent the party and essentially without a unique party leader, as the Democrats seek a winning message and vision before the average of 2026 and the presidential election of 2028.
Six candidates ended up running on Saturday to lead the DNC, including the former Maryland governor, Martin O’Malley, the President of the Wisconsin Democratic Party, Ben Wikler and Martin, the Minnesota Democratic Party Arm leader. Faiz Shakir, the former director of the presidential campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders 2020, was also a contestant.
Martin won the chairs with 246.5 votes, compared to 134.5 for Wikler, 44 for O’Maley and 2 for Shakir.
Without a Democratic president in the White House, the new chair is expected to have a wide influence in the coming years. And despite the fact that the tensions in the race are more warm in recent weeks, the DNC leadership race focused very little on ideology, evidenced by the lack of tent names that would probably be known by an average voter.
The protesters interrupted the meeting before the vote, reflecting some of the divisions that upset the party in 2024 and lasted -after President Trump’s presidential victory.
Martin went to Saturday with a large number of evaluation of the Democrats’ field match that voted in the competition. But Wikler was able to support the Democratic leader of the Chamber, Hakeem Jeffries, the Senate Democratic Leader, Chuck Schumer, and the former Chamber President, Nancy Pelosi.
These prominent names, however, did not prevent Martin from winning the first vote on Saturday.