DNC party divisions eclipse a message of unit against GOP to Summer CONFAB

Minneapolis, MN – The Democrats have prepared to fight as they huddled this week During the annual annual meeting of the National Democratic Committee (DNC).

But despite the repeated speeches that the party is unified because it aims to leave the political desert after the setbacks of last year’s elections, the Democrats fought between them several times during the three -day Confab, which was held in the largest city in Minnesota.

While the Democrats are hungry for a more energetic response to counter the scanning and controversial program of President Donald Trump, the president of the DNC, Ken Martin, targeted the president, arguing that Trump acts as “a chief dictator” and that his second administration is “fascism dressed in a red link”.

Martin, pointing towards the decline by the Democrats against the movements this summer by Trump and the Republicans to create more seats from the Chamber in the United States in the States through the country thanks to a redistribution of the Congress of mid-Decennia of rare decades before the mid-term elections of next year, said that he was “sick and tired of this Democratic Party bringing a knife to a knife.

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The president of the National Democratic Committee, Ken Martin, is addressed to the members of the party at the DNC summer meeting on August 25, 2025 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Paul Steinhauser – Fox News)

“We can no longer be the only party that respects the rules,” he urged.

And the DNC vice-president, Malcolm Kenyatta, in a digital interview Fox News on the sidelines of the meeting, insisted that the Democrats “had to engage in a level of combat, not the power for the power of the power, but we must fight hard because we understand what is at stake for the workers and the working families”.

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And echoing Martin, “he said,” We played the ladies. They play Grand Theft Auto “, as he referred to the long-time and popular video-adventure video game series that revolves around the shooting, driving and theft of cars.

In the midst of the word that the party remains divided on a multitude of political and political problems, the leaders preached unity.

“We do not have the luxury of fighting among ourselves while this thing is at the White House,” said the vice-president of the Democratic Party and the Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, as he referred to Trump.

And Martin stressed that “in our large group of tents, we are unified towards one goal: to stop Donald Trump and put this country back on the right track”.

During several small group discussions during the CONFAB, a chief of the donor portal for the Democrats known as Actblue shared what was described as a fighting song to energize party members.

The song and the lyrics, which were Reported by Semaforwere mocked by the conservatives on social networks.

While Unity was a higher theme to Minneapolis, the divisions flared during the summer meeting.

The president of the National Democratic Committee, Ken Martin (Center), nestled with a member of the Florida Committee Allison Minnerly, during a meeting of the DNC resolutions committee on August 26, 2025 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Paul Steinhauser – Fox News)

There was a lot of disagreement because the DNC resolutions committee examined two duel resolutions in the War of Israel-Hamas in Gaza. The panel voted for a symbolic resolution calling for an arms embargo and a suspension of American military aid in Israel, which has long been the best American ally in the Middle East.

A separate resolution introduced and supported by Martin who called for a cease-fire between Israel and HamasAs well as access without restriction to humanitarian aid to civilians in Gaza, was adopted unanimously by the panel.

But the defeat of the second more energetic resolution, which was introduced by Allison Minnerly, 26, a new member of the Florida DNC, sparked an opposition among certain members of the panel.

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“It is not enough,” said Sophia Danenberg, member of the Washington DC DNC committee, stressing Martin’s resolution. “People want to hear a stronger and stronger statement.”

Danenberg stressed: “I fear that we are losing our future as a Democratic Party by not making courage on this issue.”

A few minutes later, following a private conversation between Martin and Minnerly, the DNC president asked the committee to “withdraw my resolution so that we can move United today and have the conversation”.

“We have to continue working through it. We have to find a way to follow as a party, and we have to stay unified,” added the president.

The move of Martin, which was adopted by the committee, can buy a little time, but the party remains divided on the issue.

Joe Salas, a member of the California DNC committee and American Muslim, told Fox News after the defeat of Minnerly’s resolution, that “I think there is a disconnection between the inhabitants of the committee and the average locking and barrel voters who identify with the Democratic Party”.

The confrontation on resolutions has occurred while the formerly almost unshakable support of the Democratic Party in Israel has fractured in the midst of the bloodshed. And the concerns about the growing number of deaths among the Palestinians by many members of the progressive party of the party have skyrocketed this spring and this was in the midst of what many describe as a famine in Gaza. Recent polls indicate that support for the continuous military actions of Israel in Gaza is falling among the Democrats.

The Democrats aim to bounce back after last year’s elections when the party lost control of the White House and the Senate. Democrats also failed in their attempt to win back the majority of the room and The Republicans have made gains With voters who make up key parts of the Democratic Party base.

But the situation has only deteriorated for the Democrats in the 10 months since last year Electoral rebels, According to key measures.

The brand of Democrats is deeply unpopular, in particular with young voters, while party survey numbers continue to switch to the bottom of all time in national surveys.

The DNC continues to deal with a massive fundraising deficit in the hands of the National Rival Republican Committee (RNC), as well as concerns about the registration of late parties.

But Martin was optimistic.

Although he recognized “that our money in hand seems to be weak compared to the Republicans”, he praised during the meeting of the executive committee on Wednesday morning that “we have collected $ 70 million so far this year, which is a record”.

And Martin underlined a victory in the special elections on Tuesday evening in the red state of Iowa, where the Democrats overthrew a siege of the Gop State Senate.

The president of the National Democratic Committee (DNC), Ken Martin, speaks with the members of the DNC, during the summer meeting of the party, on August 27, 2025 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Fox News Digital / Paul Steinhauser)

“These are 40 key elections this year in which we have won or outperformed,” praised Martin. “I want you to think about it for a second. Democrats, there is a wind behind our back. We have outperformed in each election that has been on the ballot since Donald Trump was inaugurated.”

After an approximate section after winning the elections as president of the DNC in February, Martin seems to have stimulated this summer, and there was a lot of praise for the new chair at the meeting, which was postponed Wednesday early after the mortal shooting of the church in a Catholic school in Minneapolis a few kilometers from the meeting of the DNC.

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But the Republicans say that they are also delighted with Martin’s mandate so far.

“Under the supervision of Ken Martin, the Democrats sank their lowest approval note in 35 years, the DNC still pays millions of people in the Kamala Harris campaign,” said RNC communications director Zach Parkinson in Fox News. “As Republicans, we think he is doing a fantastic job, and we have fully approved it to stay as president of the DNC.”