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Democrats elect Minnesota's Ken Martin as DNC chair on first ballot (www.mprnews.org)

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Members of the Democratic National Committee voted Saturday to make Minnesota DFL Chair Ken Martin their next party leader.

Martin beat out Wisconsin Democratic Party Chair Ben Wikler and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, along with a handful of other candidates, on the first ballot to clinch the title. He received 246.5 votes, more than the 50 percent plus one of the 448 voting members.

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[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

oh goody, i can't wait to see how much absofuckinglutely nothing they get accomplished

[–] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 8 points 3 days ago

HE was the best at hand-wringing and sternly written memos.

It shall be a glorious era of capitulation.

[–] magiccupcake@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

What we need to do right now, is really start to get our handle around what happened this last election cycle. We know that we lost ground with Latino voters. We know we lost ground with women and younger voters, and, of course, working class households,” Martin said. “We don’t know the how and why at this moment, and that’s what I need to get my hands around before we can be proscriptive on a plan and a solution

Really? It's some big mystery? You catered to the right and cozied up to billionaires and got wrecked.