Democrats are rebranding their national perception in response to voters who not only returned Trump to office but handed the GOP control over both chambers of Congress. Several DNC chair candidates have acknowledged that the party needs a more effective manner of communicating to the public upset over the economy and immigration.
The Democrats who entered the DNC chair race first remain ahead in public DNC member commitments; the winner needs a majority of their 448 votes when the party meets outside DC on Feb. 1.
Candidates seeking to lead the Democratic National Committee were pressed about President Joe Biden at a forum in Detroit.
Candidates for Democratic National Committee leadership posts largely embraced President Joe Biden’s warnings of an oligarchy taking shape in America during a series of forums Thursday in Detroit that ran nearly eight hours.
Desperate to bounce back after their 2024 drubbing, Democrats look for new leadership at the dawn of a second Trump administration
Former Bernie Sanders campaign manager Faiz Shakir has thrown his hat in the ring. Since he’s joining the race just a couple weeks before the DNC’s members vote, it will be a challenge for him to catch the front-runners. But Shakir’s entry is significant nonetheless: Unlike most of his competitors, he wants to transform the party.
Democrats in Minnesota’s state House staged a boycott on Tuesday, walking out and not showing up for the first day of the legislative session in defiance over how the chamber will be divided. When
Further down ballot, candidates also used the forum to discuss their own visions for how to correct what went wrong for Democrats in 2024. Anti-gun violence activist David Hogg is running for a DNC vice chair spot. He said the party had a problem with listening.
Former vice presidential hopeful Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) is backing Ken Martin, the Democratic state party chair in Minnesota, in his bid to take the helm of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
The strategist who managed Bernie Sanders’s presidential race says the party needs vision and conviction “to restore a deeply damaged Democratic brand.”
The Democratic Party begins 2025 with several looming questions. Among them: who will lead its national party apparatus, and how it will handle President-elect Donald Trump's second term.