Ken Martin of Minnesota is the new chair of the Democratic National Committee. Members of the DNC elected Martin on the first ballot in a vote outside of Washington D.C.

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Members of the Democratic National Committee voted Saturday to make Minnesota DFL Chair Ken Martin their next party leader.

Martin beat out Wisconsin Democratic Party Chair Ben Wikler and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, along with a handful of other candidates, on the first ballot to clinch the title. He received 246.5 votes, more than the 50 percent plus one of the 448 voting members.

  • magiccupcake@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    What we need to do right now, is really start to get our handle around what happened this last election cycle. We know that we lost ground with Latino voters. We know we lost ground with women and younger voters, and, of course, working class households,” Martin said. “We don’t know the how and why at this moment, and that’s what I need to get my hands around before we can be proscriptive on a plan and a solution

    Really? It’s some big mystery? You catered to the right and cozied up to billionaires and got wrecked.