Ken Martin, Chairman of the Minnesota Democratic Party, was promoted on Saturday to lead the Democratic National Committee, in charge of a boring party, staring at the uncertain future.
Mr. Martin is an experienced party operator. He is a low-key, milder Midwest. He puts it into practice and expands the attraction of the party, especially among the workers’ class voters-and ensure that he is going up and down in the competition. The ability to play and all parts of the country.
The voting at the DNC Winter Conference limited a few months of competition. The focus of the competition was the party’s mechanics and news transmission, not the keen ideology or institution of the competition of other party leaders.
With the help of his deep relationship with the committee, Mr. Martin, especially his strong support among the chairman of the state party, especially at Ben Wikler, chairman of the Wiscove State Democratic Party, and the chairman of the Wisconson Democratic Party Ben Wikler.
At present, Mr. Martin must unite and lead a party that loses power in Washington, scrambling to overthrow President Trump, and faces a challenging Senate map in 2026.
Regarding the new DNC chairman, this is the five things to know:
He leaned on the root of the Midwest.
He said that Mr. Martin, a 51 -year -old, is the son of a single mother and the son of the first child in his family. He has won a college degree and graduated from Kansas University.
He is a Minnezolis, a married father of two sons. They spoke in the accent of Minnesota, and sometimes reached out to find hockey words to be tormented to talk about expanding the map of democracy. (“Where is the ice hockey, not where the ice hockey is.”)
Just like Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, Mr. Martin emphasized that it is necessary to establish contact with more and more workers’ voters. These voters need to be more and more with his party. Sometimes they cited quoted Relatives supported by Trump, such as his brothers, like his brother, like his brother, his brother, his brother, his brother, his brother, his brother, his brother, his brother,, his brother, his brother, his brother, his brother, his brother, his brother, his brother His brother, his brother, his brother, his brother, his party a union carpenter, describing the division alliance.
Martin said on a recent candidate forum: “I am not rubbing the elbow with billionaires or Hollywood elites, but I am in the United Agency, pension teams, civil rights parade and protests with workers.” ” I am running for the chair because this is the next DNC in the next chairman.
National chairs love him. Other famous Democrats prefer his opponents.
Mr. Martin is an insider of the party, he knows that he surrounds DNC
Since 2011, he has led his state party and is the vice chairman of the National Party. He also led the National Democratic Commission Association, which lobby the state party in the National Committee and a power center that angrily angrily angered other DNC officials, but his allies believe that this is a sign of his advantage.
Tina Smith, a Minnesota Democratic Senator Tina Smith, said: “He establishes a relationship with the state party’s chairs to establish power.” “This shows that he will trust those who are closest to the ground, closest to voters, and closest works. “
Amy Klobuchar, a senator in Minnesota, said Martin’s attention to the state party showed that he was interested in participating in the competition anywhere.
She said: “What he will do nationwide is to focus on maintaining our blue state strong, but also to ensure that our purple country (of course, the blue country that did not happen last time, the red countries became purple. “This is part of what he is talking about establishing these state parties and ensuring that we enter each region.”
However, if Mr. Martin has received strong support among the party chairs and vice chairmen, they are DNC’s voting members, that is Mr. Victor, and Mr. Victor is a habit of competing in a more competitive battlefield state competition. For strong fundraising activities, they attracted major donors such as the elected officials and the billionaire Reid Hoffman.
Now, Mr. Martin (Mr. WALZ and the representative of South Carolina, the representative of Jim Clyburn, have obtained significant recognition of people. He will need him to try to help him All the support obtained when the party is reset.
In Minnesota, he is regarded as a revolutionary artist.
Since Richard M. Nixon was the state in 1972, Richard M. Nixon has not supported Republican presidential candidates.
However, Mr. Martin started politics in the 1990 Senate campaign in Paul Wellstone, and became a disciple of the Democratic emphasis on grass -roots organizations. He played many competitive competitions in voting Essence
When he served as the chairman of the Democratic Party ’s Pymnomics, he encountered a debt organization because the party was formal and was considered to be attributed to its destiny with reversing his destiny.
Ms. Klob Charlier said: “He not only received a lot of worthy honors, but also because he maintained less elections in the election. Even in the election, he received a lot of honors.”
His team pointed out that during his tenure, his political party did not lose the state of the state, although the elections last fall challenged Democrats in Minnesota and Democrats across the country.
He also has an experience of a fragile alliance that spans ideology, from the in -depth progressive activist of the two -person city to at least some gentle voters in the rural areas of the state.
Amy Koch, former Republican leader of the Minnesota Senate, said, from a tactical perspective: “It is difficult to defeat what he did.” “He can keep the Democrats’ truly different alliances together. “
He will cut his work on the national stage, where the Democrats there are problems in 2024, how to solve their party factions and their deep differences.
Compared with the gorgeous party spokesman, he is a strategicist behind the scenes.
Mr. Martin is even known as the party’s tacticals, not a delicate TV expert-he suggested that this is the should be.
He said in a candidate forum in Detroit that his political party had a “very deep bench” from governor and parliament members to local officials.
He said: “We must use our country to be rich, rich, and rich in this country. They are actually delivering in our party values.” “DNC chairs are just a spokesman.”
During the DNC competition, Mr. Victor is usually regarded as a more attractive speaker. When he appeared on the “Daily Show” and began to talk enthusiastically about the unfair phenomenon he thought, the owner Jon Stewart could not stop disturbing him.
“Oh, my God,” Mr. Stuart interjected at a certain moment. “I’m very excited.”
Nevertheless, Mr. Martin talked with the news media. At the Detroit Forum, he mentioned that he might try to be the chairman: another role of attacking the dog.
He said that in Minnesota, he believed that his work was to seek the work of defining Republicans, which was to release the Democratic candidate “on the road.”
He said: “I will punch, so they don’t have to do this. We will attack Donald Trump.” “This is the role of I will be a spokesman.”
Moreover, he promised: “I will also be the president.”
His victory has nothing to do with ideology.
Sometimes the competitions of the positions of the state and the president of the state will provide insights on the ideological direction of the party’s progress, or a wider conflict between the agency and the institution.
This is not the case in this year’s game.
Mr. Martin called himself “pro -labor progress” and quoted the inspiration of Mr. Welston, a populist, but both of them and Mr. Victor promised to adopt the “big tent” method and from the left -leaning and gentle officials. Get recognition.
Mr. Martin regards himself as a pragiarian, first of all to win.
He recently said on MSNBC: “I have not won arguments here.” “I won the election here.”
He added that the purpose of the political party is “establishing infrastructure, not only to win the upcoming election, but also to establish long -term power.”
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