{"id":126981,"date":"2025-03-11T19:56:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T19:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/alabama\/new-dnc-chair-a-change-is-coming\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T19:56:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T19:56:23","slug":"new-dnc-chair-a-change-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=126981","title":{"rendered":"New DNC chair: A change is coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alreporter.com\/2025\/03\/11\/new-dnc-chair-a-change-is-coming\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"880\" height=\"494\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20201024_km_125-scaled-e1741697970496-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"New DNC chair: A change is coming\" align=\"center\" style=\"margin: 0 auto 20px;max-width:100%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">No more concessions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That was the message that new Democratic National Committee chairman Ken Martin stressed during a recent interview on the <a href=\"https:\/\/creators.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/alabamapoliticsthisweek\">Alabama Politics This Week podcast<\/a>. Martin, who was elected chairman of the party in February, said the DNC, which has spent the last few months reassessing its strengths and weaknesses in the wake of Kamala Harris\u2019s loss to Donald Trump, has landed on an overall strategy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fight everywhere. Including supposed red states and &#8220;unwinnable&#8221; southern states.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI just spent the last eight years as the head of our state party association where I wrote the 57-state strategy \u2013 50 states and of course the seven territories \u2013 and it&#8217;s an acknowledgement that there&#8217;s no such thing as a perpetual red state or perpetual blue state,\u201d Martin said. \u201cIf we want to move a red state to a purple state to a blue state, we have to invest time energy and money in those places. I&#8217;m a big believer that when you organize everywhere you can win anywhere.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Simply saying you\u2019re going to fight everywhere, though, is rather meaningless, Martin said, unless there\u2019s a viable strategy behind it. And to that end, the new DNC is prepared to make massive shifts in how it conducts organizing, where it spends money, the media strategy it employs and the messaging it sends out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Martin said that a party that just spent $2 billion on a losing presidential campaign can certainly spare some capital to tackle down-ballot races in every state, focusing on local offices and cutting off the spread of hateful, harmful rhetoric at the roots.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe can&#8217;t be a party that&#8217;s just focused on federal races we if if we want to build both for the short term and the long term,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have to be competing up and down the ballot \u2013 contested races at all levels, from state races to legislative races all the way down to local races. They all matter right now, and our own indifference, as an example, to local races has allowed the conservative movement in this country to take over so many of our school boards where they&#8217;re now banning books, whitewashing history, attacking our children.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThat&#8217;s partly on the republicans but it&#8217;s certainly also on us, because we&#8217;ve not contested those races and we&#8217;re not organizing around local races. So, for me, I take a very holistic view on how we build power. We have to compete everywhere across this country. We have to compete in every zip code and be organizing in every zip code, and we have to do it up and down the ballot, competing in every race.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Martin also stressed that the Democrats\u2019 old media strategy, which relied too heavily on legacy media, local broadcast advertising and a passive reliance on news outlets to perform adequate fact checking, was a thing of the past. Moving forward, the Democrats will take a few pages from the successful Republican playbook, as far as new media, and implement a more user-friendly campaign strategy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThis is one of the areas where we got our butts kicked over the last several years to be honest with you,\u201d Martin said. \u201cIf you think about this, about probably a decade or longer now, maybe fifteen years or so ago, corporate America in the entertainment industry understood that ninety percent of Americans had a smartphone, and as a result they were going to start getting their information in entertainment from digital spaces. So they started to move all their content into those spaces, and of course politics and elections and campaigns always lag behind where corporate America is.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe Republicans actually made this switch probably about five years ago, right after the 2020 election. They started an incessant drumbeat of beating the hell out of Joe Biden and the democratic party in all of these digital spaces. They paid them to spread their misinformation and disinformation for three years before we were ever even revving up our communications infrastructure. They had already defined us before we defined ourselves, and that&#8217;s one of the critical lessons that we&#8217;ve learned already from this last election cycle. We have to have meet where voter meet voters where they&#8217;re at.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Martin also spoke of a new organizing strategy and no longer conceding the religious vote to Republicans. The interview in its entirety, will be available later this week on the <a href=\"https:\/\/creators.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/alabamapoliticsthisweek\">Alabama Politics This Week website<\/a>, or subscribe to the podcast on all major platforms.<\/span><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No more concessions.\u00a0 That was the message that new Democratic National Committee chairman Ken Martin stressed during a recent interview on the Alabama Politics This Week podcast. 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