Dnc Elects Vice Chair To Replace David Hogg As Democrat Party Rift Rages On

Shasti Conrad, Washington State Democratic Party Chair, was elected vice chair of nan Democratic National Committee (DNC) connected Friday, ending nan months-long David Hogg contention successful which nan 25-year-old progressive bowed retired from statement leadership. 

The 2nd voting play for nan DNC's "any gender" vice chair predetermination ended Friday nighttime arsenic Free OR Conrad picked up nan mostly of votes formed by DNC members. Earlier successful nan week, candidates grounded to unafraid a mostly and Jeanna Repass was eliminated during nan first information of voting.

Hogg announced his exit from DNC activity aft members voted past week to uphold nan Credentials Committee's solution projected by Kalyn Free to big a re-election for 2 vice-chair positions, which Hogg and DNC vice chair Malcolm Kenyatta won during nan Feb. 1 statement elections. 

Kenyatta told Fox News Digital aft Hogg's exit that nan re-election play has prevented nan DNC from being "singularly focused."

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David Hogg stepped down from statement activity aft he was elected DNC vice chair earlier this year. (GABY VELASQUEZ/ EL PASO TIMES / USA TODAY NETWORK)

"We've spent a batch of clip talking astir procedural delirium wrong nan DNC. I committedness you cipher cares astir that, and cipher wants to talk astir it arsenic small arsenic I do. I want america to get refocused," Kenyatta said. 

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Hogg agreed, penning successful a lengthy X connection that he was stepping down from nan DNC, "so nan statement tin attraction connected what really matters."

But Hogg ignited soul Democratic Party divisions this twelvemonth done his $20 cardinal scheme to superior situation susceptible incumbent Democrats he said were "asleep astatine nan wheel." The plan, done his extracurricular governmental action group, Leaders We Deserve, exposed an evident rift pinch DNC Chair Ken Martin, who gave Hogg nan ultimatum to either forego his governmental power done his PAC aliases springiness up his DNC activity position. 

DNC Chair Ken Martin speaks astatine nan DNC Winter Meeting astatine nan Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center successful National Harbor, Md., connected Feb. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

And nan young progressive's departure did small to stall headlines astir nan Democratic Party's disarray, arsenic this week DNC officials criticized Martin's activity and The New York Times reported officials had considered borrowing money to salary nan bills this year. 

Earlier this week, The New York Times besides first reported that 2 apical national leaders had departed nan DNC. Randi Weingarten, president of nan American Federation of Teachers, and Lee Saunders, president of nan American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, declined offers to enactment connected arsenic at-large members of nan DNC. 

"I look to beryllium retired of measurement pinch nan activity you are forging, and I do not want to beryllium nan 1 who keeps questioning why we are not enlarging our shelter and actively trying to prosecute much and much of our communities," Weingarten, nan acquisition leader and longtime sound successful Democratic politics, said successful a missive Martin that is now circulating connected societal media. 

Randi Weingarten, then-President of nan American Federation of Teachers, reacts successful beforehand of nan House Select Subcommittee connected nan Coronavirus Pandemic connected Capitol Hill successful Washington connected April 26, 2023. (Reuters)

Hogg's determination to time off nan DNC followed a damning Politico report, which included leaked audio from a Zoom gathering of Martin lamenting complete Hogg's fallout astatine nan DNC, claiming it had made it harder for Democrats to do their jobs and for Martin to show his expertise to lead.

"I don’t deliberation you intended this, but you fundamentally destroyed immoderate chance I person to show nan activity that I request to. So, it’s really frustrating," Martin said. 

Free submitted her complaint following nan DNC's Feb. 1 serviceman elections, successful which Hogg and Kenyatta were elected vice chairs. She claimed nan DNC's tabulation method violated nan charter's proviso and parliamentary process and "discriminated against 3 women of colour candidates."

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"This was ne'er astir Malcolm Kenyatta aliases David Hogg," Free told Fox News Digital aft nan Credentials Committee elevated her title earlier nan afloat DNC. "For me, this was astir ensuring that nan Democratic Party lives up to our ideals arsenic nan only governmental statement to judge successful and guidelines up for predetermination integrity and a free and adjacent democracy."

The Democratic Party maintained that nan vice-chair re-election had thing to do pinch nan superior contention Hogg stirred up earlier this year, but Hogg slammed nan ballot arsenic a "fast-track" effort to region him from statement leadership.