At the Democratic National Committee’s winter meeting in National Harbor, Maryland, Ken Martin, longtime chair of Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, secured his election as the new DNC chair. Winning 246.5 out of 448 votes, he edged out Ben Wikler of Wisconsin and former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley.
CNN has more:
“Martin, who has spent 14 years leading the Minnesota party and eight years as a DNC vice chair, emerged as an early front-runner in the race due to his long-standing ties to state party leaders, a key voting bloc. Throughout the campaign, he highlighted his track record: The Minnesota DFL hasn’t lost a single statewide race since he took over the party.”
But CNN continues:
“Outgoing chair Jaime Harrison touched on some of those tensions at the top of the elections when he condemned reports that some DNC members had been intimidated, pressured, or threatened by donors who said they would withhold funding over their votes.
“In this party, there will be no tolerance for that type of behavior,” Harrison said. “We must be united because too much is at stake right now in this country.”
Not exactly a smooth transition or ringing endorsement of the process.
The hits came from all sides, particularly from the Young Democrats
“I have never attended a DNC meeting where I left and said, ‘Huh, I learned something,’” Stephanie Campanha Wheaton, one of the Young Democrats of America’s DNC members and a Martin supporter, told CNN. “You show up and you are a pawn, and you nod your head yes to everything that has already been decided upon in committees that you don’t know how people got on.”
Yikes.
The DNC faces an uphill battle, as internal discord lingers and President Trump continues to dominate the political landscape. The familiar refrain has returned: Dems in Disarray.
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Pass the popcorn. Caramel coated with nuts for me. Because this is delicious.
Hope they don’t figure out where they went wrong (checks calendar) before the 2036 election.
Should be enough time for the adults to get things back on track..
“Hope they don’t figure out where they went wrong before the 2036 election. Should be enough time for the adults to get things back on track.
Never underestimate your opponent. We can’t afford to get overconfident, and overlook the 2026 mid-terms. With the world in such turmoil, a lot can change before then.
Also, it’s not reassuring to realize that despite the Dems’ internal turmoil, plus the Dems’ unpopularity, the Republicans retained only a slight majority in the House, and DJT won only a modest electoral victory against two of the worst candidates (Biden, then Kamala) that the Dems could possibly have fielded.
There is no WE here sweetie 😂😂😂
Couldn’t agree more. I expressed a hope that they don’t learn.
But I’m acting as if they might.
Wisconsin Supreme Court election is in April.
Follow Scott Pressler and support everyone involved.
“Too big to rig” is easier if everyone starts to fix the rigging.
Don’t forget how conservatives became victims of their own success and hubris in the early 1990s. They were even gushing about acheiving a “permanent conservative majority”.
If enough crooked Dems end up in jail, like they should, it will be grand.
It’s abundantly clear that the Dhimmi-crat Party apparatchik-elders have no intention of moderating their wretched Party’s ideological fanaticism and ill-conceived policy proposals.
These idiots keep on drawing presidential candidates and Party leaders from the worst-run and most obnoxiously zealous states in the Union.
Good news for the GOP, as with each passing day, VP Vance looks more likely to succeed #47 with a two-term presidency, thus ensuring a glorious, twelve-year MAGA renaissance/Enlightenment.
That’s not their problem. The problem is the opposite, according to young Dems. They want more like AOC, hardline leftists. Even Kamala was too centrist for them, especially since she suddenly forgot her leftist past in her unsuccessful campaign and tried to be a younger female Joe Biden. Nobody was fooled, but true leftists were offended.
Hey, Ben missed the Big News:
They elected David Hogg as their Vice Chair!
Oh, 🎶 Happy Days Are Here Again!
They’ll give him the “patsy” set of books and abjure him to maintain them diligently.
He’s having someone build him a new website in his honor as we speak.
They won’t with this guy. He is the head of a state party that is currently boycotting the start of their legislative session shutting down their government because they lost the last election to the Republicans when one of their members was caught cheating. Powerline has a great rundown of what is going on in MN.
got hot buttery popcorn and frozen
Chocolate over here ….
2036 is a little soon … maybe a little longer …
I plan to roast some marshmallows while the meltdown is still hot.
Minnesota, eh? How’s that working out for them?
There’s not as many stray dogs and cats.
Ha!
Saw a pic of the guy flanked by Ellison and Omar, and wondered where Walz and Frey were. It used to be Massachusetts Democrat, now it’s Minnesota Democrats that symbolize the lack of common sense. Good luck with that!
>now it’s Minnesota Democrats that symbolize the lack of common sense. Good luck with that!
They’ve been trying that since 1984, and it didn’t work out very well for them that time either.
The ghost of Mondale seems to still hold large sway over contemporary Dhimmi-crats.
A key Martin supporter, longtime New Hampshire Democratic Party Chair Ray Buckley, told Fox News Digital ahead of the chair election that “it’s an important opportunity for us to not only refocus the party and what we present to voters, but also an opportunity for us to look at how we internally govern ourselves.”
Video of key Martin supporter, New Hampshire Democratic Party Chair Ray Buckley.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/10/shocking-video-uncovered-of-vice-chair-ray-buckley-second-in-line-at-dnc/
By currently boycotting the start of the legislature in MN because they lost power by one vote shutting down the state I’d say we are seeing what the Dems have in store. They truly have not learned anything and are intent on doubling down on stupid.
“Everything has been decided in committees that you don’t know how they got on”
Kinda like the “Biden” presidency…
Kid should read some history. Starting just before 1968.
It’s called the “smoke-filled room,” kid, and Democrats (and Wayne LaPierre) never hold a convention without one (the wrong lizard might be elected)..
In 1968, during a full week of party factions engaging in literal street violence, the smoke-filled Democrats picked one of their worst candidates ever, who promptly cluster-bombed the entire election. When every one of those party factions paused their mutual bloodshed and began advancing towards DNC HQ, the party promised they’d never do that sort of thing again, and that from now on, their standard-bearer would be selected by a rigorous course of national primaries.
And they’ve done it ever since.
Right, Joe? Right, Kamala?
Texas congressman Chip Roy has pointed out that that Congress as a whole runs the same way.
‘due to his long-standing ties to state party leaders, a key voting bloc’
And that’s exactly why they can’t change course.
>>Winning 246.5 out of 448 votes . . . <<
Would someone care to explain how one casts 0.5 (one-half) of a vote?
THere were an odd number of white delegates.
The execrable Capeheart fool, of MSNBC ill fame, set the tone for these wretched proceedings, and, underscored the Dhimmi-crat apparatchiks’ and Dhimmi-crat media shills’/lapdogs’/trained seals’/stenographers’ arrogance, dishonesty and myopia, when he asked the DNC Chair candidates to raise their hands, if they thought that crone-harlot, Harris, lost the election because of “racism and misogyny.” All of the puppets raised their hands, to which Capeheart gave his gleeful approval — “You’ve passed the first test!”
The Dhimmi-crats are despicable and evil. Blaming the electorate’s rejection of Harris, because of her unlikeable character, idiotic policy proposals/prescriptions and abject track record of failure, on citizens’ alleged racism is absurd and offensive. The Dhimmi-crats would have us believe that the country was allegedly enlightened when it elected and re-elected narcissist-incompetent-dunce, Obama, but, then, magically turned racist, overnight, by electing and re-electing President Trump.
Well, it’s like asking a medieval group of cardinals how many of them believed the earth stands still. Answer yes, you might wear a miter. Answer no, you’ll certainly wear chains.
The Democrats don’t have to “learn” anything.
In two years the median voters will be soooo tired of (typical) Republican behaviors of posing, strutting and bailing that they’ll more or less grudgingly vote for enough Democrats to hamstring the little that will be left of the Trump counterrevolution.
In 2028 they’ll more happily vote in some Democrat for president and take both houses of Congress.
A Democrat of 2025 is nothing like a Democrat of 1995, yet the party doesn’t just survive, it thrives. 2024 is a momentary setback. It’s a law of nature or physics, or something. Progressivism progresses, It’s inevitable.
Eventually, it always wins.
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