Four of the governors are voting DNC members. Seven sitting governors are throwing their support behind Wisconsin Democratic Party Chairman Ben Wikler's run for Democratic National Committee chair.

Martin, a DNC vice chair who has led the association of state Democratic Party chairs, has been considered a frontrunner for the DNC job. Martin received a boost after New York state Sen.

Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party Chair Ken Martin said Tuesday his bid for Democratic National Committee chair has received 200 endorsements from DNC members. The number of endorsements for ...

At a DNC and Politico candidate forum in Detroit, the Democrats vying to become the next chair dodged questions about whether Biden should have dropped out earlier after he was forced to exit the ...

New York state Sen. James Skoufis (D) ended his bid for Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair and backed Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party Chair Ken Martin for the post on Thursday.

Democrats are in a fragile period of possibility and peril following their monumental drubbing in the 2024 national elections and ahead of Donald Trump's return to office with a unified Republican ...

Ken Martin, the chair of the Minnesota Democrats, said he was nearing the level of support needed to become the next leader of the Democratic National Committee. By Reid J. Epstein Reid J. Epstein ...

“They are so much more human with me,” Li said. “With the DNC, it was so mercenary it felt that everyone had dollar signs in their eyes. They treated me like a wallet; it was just so ...

Chair candidates need a simple majority of DNC members, or 225 votes, to win. If it holds, Martin's latest endorsement count would bring him close to victory on the first ballot. The role of the ...

In an open letter announcing his bid to the 448 voting DNC members, Shakir said he was inspired to run by what he sees as the existing candidate field’s relative inattention to the deeper policy, ...

Thursday’s forum, co-hosted by POLITICO, was the second of four meetings scheduled in January ahead of a Feb. 1 DNC chair election, the first major decision confronting Democrats as they seek to ...