US Democrats elect Minnesota’s Ken Martin as their new leader
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Mr Ken Martin speaking after being elected the Democratic National Committee chairman on Feb 1.
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WASHINGTON - Looking to rebuild after the party's election loss to Donald Trump in November, the Democratic National Committee on Feb 1 elected Ken Martin, the leader of the state party in Minnesota, as its new chair.
Mr Martin will be tasked with reversing the fortunes of a bruised and demoralised Democratic Party that not only lost control of the White House last November but failed to win either chamber of Congress.
Since then, the rudderless party has struggled to respond to Republican Mr Trump’s barrage of executive orders, many of which reversed former president Joe Biden’s policies.
A longtime Democratic strategist in Minnesota, Mr Martin had called for restoring and augmenting the party’s national infrastructure on order to contest races across the country. He beat out Wisconsin Democratic chair Ben Wikler on the first ballot.
“Today’s elections mark a new chapter in DNC leadership, and Donald Trump and his billionaire allies are put on notice: we will hold them accountable for ripping off working families, and we will beat them at the ballot box,” Mr Martin said in a statement. REUTERS
