DNC elects the new vice-president after the release of David Hogg in the middle of the party division
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Friday, vice-president of the National Democratic Committee (DNC), was elected vice-president of the National Democratic Committee (DNC) David Hogg Controversy in which the 25 -year -old progressive bowed from party leadership.
The second voting period for the DNC “Any Gender” vice-president of “Any Gender” on Friday evening while Conrad I took the majority of the votes expressed by members of the DNC. Earlier in the week, the candidates failed to obtain a majority and Jeanna Fass was eliminated during the first round.
HOGG announced its release from the DNC management after the members voted last week to maintain the resolution of the reference committee proposed by the long-standing activist of the Democratic Party, Kalyn Free, to welcome a re-election for two vice-chair stations, that the vice-president of Hogg and DNC, Malcolm Kenyatta, won during the elections on February 1.
“I am honored to be vice-president of the National Democratic Committee and I am deeply grateful to the members who trusted me,” said Conrad in a statement. “It was the longest election in the history of the DNC, and each vote reflected our common belief in the construction of a stronger and more inclusive Democratic Party.”
“ Distraction ”: the Democratic Party is ready to leave its drama David Hogg in the dust
David Hogg left party management after being elected Vice-President of the DNC earlier this year. (Gaby Velasquez / El Paso Times / USA Today Network)
DNC’s president Ken Martin celebrated her victory, describing Conrad as a “pioneer who understands the importance of defending our communities and doing hard work on the ground to help Democrats win and descend the ballot”.
Kenyatta told Fox News Digital after the release of Hogg that the re -election drama had prevented the DNC from being “in a claim”.
“We have spent a lot of time talking about procedural nonsense within the DNC. I promise you that nobody cares about it, and no one wants to talk about it as little as I do. I want us to refocus,” Kenyatta said.
Hogg accepted, writing in a long X declaration that he retired from the DNC, “so that the party can focus on what really matters.”
But Hogg has ignited internal Democratic party divisions This year, thanks to its 20 million dollars plan to challenge primary, vulnerable outgoing democrats who, according to him, have been “asleep behind the wheel”. The plan, through its external political action group, the leaders we deserve, has exhibited an apparent flaw with Martin, who gave Hogg the Ultimatum to give up his political influence through his PAC or abandon his DNC management post.
The president of the DNC, Ken Martin, speaks during the DNC winter meeting at the National Resort and Convention Center of National Harbor, Md., On February 1, 2025. (AP photo / Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
And the departure of the young progressist did not do much to put the headlines on the dismay of the Democratic Party, because this week, the officials of the DNC criticized Martin and The New York Times Officials have planned to borrow money to pay the bills this year.
Earlier this week, The New York Times He also pointed out for the first time that two senior union leaders had left the DNC. Randi Weingarten, president of the American teachers’ federation, and Lee Saunders, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, refused offers to remain as members of the DNC.
“I seem to be out of step with the leadership that you forge, and I do not want to be the one who continues to wonder why we do not widen our tent and actively try to engage more and more from our communities,” said Weingarten, leader in education and the long -standing voice in democratic politics, in a letter Martin that is now circulating on social networks.
Randi Weingarten, then president of the Federation of American Teachers, reacts to the house subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic on Capitol Hill in Washington on April 26, 2023. (Reuters)
Hogg’s decision to leave the DNC followed a Overwhelming political reportWho included a disclosed sound of a zoom meeting of Martin moving on the fallout from Hogg to the DNC, saying that he had made more difficult for the Democrats to do their work and for Martin to demonstrate his ability to direct.
“I don’t think you wanted it, but you essentially destroyed all luck that I have to show the leadership I need. So it’s really frustrating,” said Martin.
On Friday, the DNC praised the collection of nearly $ 40 million in its first four months under Martin, which the committee allocated to “basic donors who are granted to elect the Democrats and defeat Donald Trump and the billionaire of the Republicans of Maga”.
“Propelled by our basic community, the DNC has just established a new record for most of the funds collected during the first four months under a new chair – what matters is to win elections, to make the democrats competitive everywhere, to expand our tent and put our party on the right track,” said Martin, in part.
Free subjected his complaint After the elections of the officers of February 1 of the DNC, during which Hogg and Kenyatta were elected vice-presidents. She said that the DNC tab method had violated the provision and parliamentary procedure of the Charter and “discriminated against three women of candidates”.
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“It was never a question of Malcolm Kenyatta or David Hogg,” said Free to Fox News Digital after the reference committee raised its complaint before the full DNC. “For me, it was a question of ensuring that the Democratic Party lives up to our ideals as the only political party to believe and defend the integrity of the elections and a free and equitable democracy.”
The Democratic Party argued that the re-election of the vice-president had nothing to do with the main controversy, Hogg sparked earlier this year, but Hogg criticized the vote as an “accelerated” effort to remove it from the party leadership.
Paige Dukeman of Fox News contributed to this report.
