See my discussion of the race for the chair, earlier today, here.Introducing the new Chair of the DNC: @KenMartin73. pic.twitter.com/PIC6zBO6u7
— The Democrats (@TheDemocrats) February 1, 2025
ADDED: Here's the NYT article on the subject, "Democrats Elect Ken Martin, a Party Insider, to Lead the D.N.C./The Democratic National Committee chose Mr. Martin, the leader of the Minnesota Democrats, to help oversee a demoralized national party split over its future and its response to President Trump."
Mr. Martin defeated seven other candidates, including his top rival, Ben Wikler, the energetic chairman of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. Mr. Wikler’s base of support came from the party’s biggest donors and institutional players in Washington....
Mr. Martin won comfortably, with 246.5 votes to Mr. Wikler’s 134.5.
Late Friday, Mr. Wikler disclosed that his financial backers had included the billionaire Reid Hoffman and George Soros’s political action committee, both of which gave him $250,000....
[T]hroughout the campaign for party chair, Mr. Martin and Mr. Wikler both insisted that little was wrong with Democrats’ overall message: that they are the party of working people while Mr. Trump and Republicans align with billionaire moguls.
During a final candidate forum on Thursday in Washington, Mr. Wikler drew rousing applause for defending former Vice President Kamala Harris’s performance as a candidate. Mr. Martin also argued that Democrats did not need to change their message to voters.
“Anyone saying we need to start over with a new message is wrong,” he said. “We got the right message.”...
There's a lot of room between starting over and denying that you've got anything wrong with you. Defending former Vice President Kamala Harris’s performance as a candidate reminds me of a big flaw in her performance: defending Joe Biden's performance as President.
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He's white. What is going on here?
He is a he... what is going on here?
Dr. Mr. Martin - please bring some sanity and honesty back to the D party.
He’s from a one-party failed state where the state and city government let rioters burn Minneapolis burn to the ground.
Smart choice!
Mr.(?) Martin is Chairperson of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party. The results of the last election in Minnesota confirms his(xis?) party is rejected by farmers, those who do actual labor and those seeking democratic representation.
Amazing. The Democrats found someone more evil than Ben Wikler.
I approve- stick to that game plan!
Ben Wikler loves to get pedophiles like Brett Blomme elected in Wisconsin...
How in the world could he lose?
Too much competition from the Florida democrat party?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxnews.com/us/florida-democratic-party-official-lgbtq-rights-activist-arrested-child-porn-charges.amp
Deciding to go all in on failed policies, promoting lies, propaganda, and Marxism.Good job Democrats. You might notice that the most popular and successful Democrats are now Republicans, LOL. Tulsi, Musk, RFKjr.
Retrenchment to the Democrat's electoral glory days of the 1960s. Rebuilding with what worked in the past (white, working class, universal principles rather than identity politics).
1st ballot. Still seems like no competition on the Democrat side.
Ken (This is Fine Dog) Martin
omg he's not a sycophant. That's gonna be tough need undying loyalty in todays groupings
We've seen now for several decades how the New Soviet Democraticals rig every single election/contest/event/decision/etc they are involved in and then their little minions, like the Althouse lefties, are given instructions and talking points which these little apparatciks always follow without questioning.
As a Minnesota Republican, I applaud this choice.
Vance in 2028!
Have you considered utilizing ChatGPT to increase coherence?
Merit or DEI? Democratic outsiders want to know.
A white dude named KEN !!!
https://redtri.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/GTJ89_W_21_121-e1615588164488.png?w=789
Democrats have a long way to go to recapture the trust of anyone outside of the progressive echo chamber.
If you look up Peter Principle in the dictionary, the illustration accompanying the definition is Ken Martin. He's just the latest in a long line of Minnesota DFL donks who fold when they reach the big time.
2026 is gonna be lit!!
I was gonna say, what a surprise, elected on the first ballot. If there's one thing Progressive Democrats know how to do, it's organize a vote outcome by whatever means necessary. Corruption always dies the ugliest death imaginable, because it insist on circumventing positive creative change. Why do I think corruption was involved? Look at the ideas he ran on: The ones that lost the last national election, yugely. Yet here they are, 2 weeks into a changed political landscape, and the failed ideas are still being championed, and are winning.
And now the search for the Democrat Harold Stassen begins!
Hell yeah.
Does he like the smell of burning tires in the morning?
"Have you considered utilizing ChatGPT to increase coherence?" The LAST thing the left wants is to be clear and concise. Making their message cloudy, and unclear is how they get elected.
I remember a clip of all DNC Chair nominees agreeing the Kamala lost the election due to racism & misogyny! That'll be a winning position!
"Dave Begley said...
He’s from a one-party failed state where the state and city government let rioters burn Minneapolis burn to the ground.
Smart choice!"
Ken Martin would have been my choice to lead the Donner-Lemming party.
I love the .5 votes. The Democrats are internalizing their divisions even on an individual basis.
He probably supplied the marches.
Just where is Joe, anyway.
Did he go straight into hospice?
"DonaldTrump should be immediately impeached and then put on trial for treason. His actions led to the deaths of American soldiers. He is a traitor to our nation and all those who have served."
- New DNC Chairman bringing it in 2020.
I’m sure shim will do just fine.
In Kak they trust…
"a party insider", of course he is.
Mr. Martin won comfortably, with 246.5 votes to Mr. Wikler’s 134.5.
I suppose for Democrats, 1/2 is an improvement over 3/5ths?
Well then, its clear you remain deep, deep within the "progressive" (talk about a tell with that word eh? Its Full Leftist amigo. Full. Irreversible. Leftist) echo chamber.
As your every post demonstrates conclusively.
But only every single post.
Without exception.
Bottoms up ‘Cocktail’ 🥃🥃🤡🤡
Althouse said...
Defending former Vice President Kamala Harris’s performance as a candidate reminds me of a big flaw in her performance: defending Joe Biden's performance as President.
NYT Said...
Mr. Wikler drew rousing applause for defending former Vice President Kamala Harris’s performance as a candidate.
For what it's worth, I'm sure Henry Winkler wasn't aware either so soon after he jumped the shark.
They won't get fooled again...
It's all the voters' fault!! That's their story, and they're sticking to it.
Remember New Soviet Democraticals, the only problem you really have is a messaging one! People love your policies! Open borders! Open grooming! Censoring speech! Lawfare and weaponization against domestic political opponents and Catholics and parents at School Board meetings, astounding levels of criminal money laundering via "foreign aid"/NGO payouts at the expense of American citizens, etc.
Its just a messaging problem.
Time to triple down on all that.
White male Minnesota Democrat? While decrying the supposed misogynistic-racism that caused Kamala's loss, the party picks him?
Shades of Tim Walz as Harris' VP pick, yet another unknown Minnesota beta male who is unable to capture voters. Guys, this is hardly right step towards reinvigorating party.
Not whom the Dems need here. They need someone who can transform their party back to its roots, as the party of the small people, and not the elite. Instead, they got someone who is an establishment player.
I watched the RFK and Tulsi confirmation hearings. I also watched the DNC Chair forum. Shocking how intellectually bereft the Democratic Party is at this moment. Reminds me of the Republicans in '08.
"...response to Trump".
They needn't bother. We know what the 'response to Trump' is, and no one cares.
Apart from democrats. They always need to be told what The Party thinks so they can fall inline with the talking points. But again, we know what they are - it is the opposite anything Trump.
Not much in the way of diversity, or equity in this choice. "I'm shocked", said no one familiar with the Democrat party "vibe".
“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.”
In other news Ken Martin has just been named Executive Officer on HMS Hood. Things will go well until a might explosion. Probably happen in November 2026.
So much for equity and inclusion.
Never heard of him. God, I hate his filthy, stinking guts!
So, is he read in on the actual goal of his party, or does he believe they're the good guys?
If Trump doesn't blow it in the next two years, it's hard to see how the Republicans can lose either house, especially if they continue with wokery.
look over the still smoking ruins of Minneapolis, and realize:
THIS is the future the DNC is Promising you!
well, there's Still Time, for Ken to announce that he identifies as a woman..
or as a tree or something
don't forget Presidents Trump and Reagan !
According to FOX News:
“The Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Saturday elected Minnesota party leader Ken Martin, who once called for President Donald Trump to be tried for treason, as its next national chair in the wake of the party's disastrous performance in the November elections.
According to the NYT, his slogan was YES WE KEN. He looks like Michael Scott in The Office. Michael would definitely approve of that slogan.
My read from a distance is that Ben Wikler is considerably more tough-minded than Ken Martin. I thought that anyway, and then when Nancy Pelosi endorsed him, even more so. I also think it is obvious that he is more tough-minded, which made me wonder why he didn’t get elected.
Don't have a dog in this fight, but I'm always pleased by any Gopher win over any Badger.
I can imagine, since it happens so infrequently. :)
He takes the money of Soros. He does what Soros wants.
So the DNC has a new "Chair". My goodness. When do they get a new table or dining set? Is their dumber than the refusal to call "The Chair" , the "Chairman" or "Chairwoman"? But heavens forbid we should talk sensible english, and not feminist jargon.
No. It's the children who are wrong.
Seeing the general response from Dems these past three months be "there is nothing wrong with us—it's the voters who are wrong" is a weird combination of infuriating and exciting. From an objective perspective, I want to grab them by the sides of the head and ask if they have eyes, but it's also delicious to watch one's opponents run headlong, deeper into the field of rakes they have already proudly marched into.
"More cowbell!" Though after labeling Trump as Russian Agent/Insurrectionist/Hitler, you have to wonder what's left in the bag of Democrat tricks? Could Vance literally be the Devil's spawn? Even if they recapture Congress in 2026, does Congress have the power to perform exorcisms?
Can we now refer to Wikler as a "has-Ben"?
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