The field to become the next chairman of the Democratic National Committee has narrowed after a long-awaited candidate dropped out endorsed Ken Martin, Chairman of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.
Martin, a DNC vice chairman who has led the Democratic Party’s association of chairmen, is considered a front-runner for the DNC job.
Martin got a boost after New York State Senator James Skoufis withdrew from the race and endorsed him: Politico reported this Thursday morning.
Skoufis said in a statement to the newspaper that Martin “will refocus on what matters most to our party: expanding the map and rebuilding our once-great Democratic tent by seizing power outside the DC Beltway and kicking out the out-of-touch advisor.” class to the sidewalk.”
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Ken Martin, chairman of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, speaks at the Minnesota DFL Party election watch party at the InterContinental Hotel in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on November 5, 2024. (Christopher Mark Juhn/Anadolu via Getty Images)
The Democrats suffered major setbacks during the election 2024 elections when former President Trump retook the White House and the Republican Party flipped the Senate and held on to its fragile majority in the House of Representatives.
Martin told Fox News Digital last month that if he became chairman, the first thing he would do is “come up with a plan to win.”
Minnesota DFL Party Chairman Ken Martin, a leading candidate in the Democratic National Committee chairman race, during the DNC Executive Committee meeting on December 12, 2024 in Washington DC (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)
“And we need to start writing that plan, making sure we look under the hood,” he said. “How much money do we have at the party? What are the contracts? What contracts do we need to get rid of? And honestly, bringing all our stakeholder groups together is the most important thing.”
Two other top candidates in the DNC race are Ben Wikler, who has led the state Democratic Party in battleground Wisconsin since 2019, and Martin O’Malley, the former two-term governor of Maryland and the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, who served as commissioner of the Social Security Administration for the past year.
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Current DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison is not seeking another four-year term to run the party’s national committee. The next chairman will be chosen by the approximately 450 voting members of the party’s national committee when they meet Feb. 1 at National Harbor in Maryland for the DNC’s winter meeting.
Paul Steinhauser of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
