DNC Chair: No DNC officer should attempt to influence primary election outcome
Ken Martin, chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), said that no DNC officer should try to influence the Democratic primary election outcomes. The DNC will not favor either the incumbent or the challenger during the primaries; they can’t simultaneously be referee and player. David Hogg appeared to be the intended recipient of this message as he pledged to offer $20 million through his political action group to present primary challenges to older Democrats.
From Fox News:
“No DNC officer should ever attempt to influence the outcome of a primary election, whether on behalf of an incumbent or a challenger,” the recently elected national party chair said during a conference call with reporters on Thursday.
Martin’s comments were directed at DNC vice chair David Hogg, who last week pledged to shell out $20 million through his outside political group, Leaders We Deserve, to primary-challenge some older Democrats in blue districts.
Hogg’s effort is aimed at helping to elect younger Democrats and includes supporting primary challengers to House Democrats in safe seats who Hogg argues “are asleep at the wheel.”
Hogg, the 25-year-old survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, drew sharp attention by spending money against fellow Democrats–a move a DNC official called unprecedented. The action has deepened internal party tensions that have simmered since President Donald Trump’s decisive election last November.
“I have great respect for David Hogg. I think he’s an amazing young leader who’s done so much already to help move our movement forward,” Martin said.
But the DNC chair added that while he understands what Hogg is trying to do, “I’ve said to him, if you want to challenge incumbents, you’re more than free to do that, but just not as an officer of the DNC, because our job is to be neutral arbiters. We can’t be both the referee and also the player at the same time.”
“It’s important for us to maintain the trust that we have built with Democratic voters and to keep our thumb off the scale as party officers,” Martin added.
Additional Reading:
Steinhauser, P., & Heavey, D. (2025, April 24). Democrats’ vice chair gets ultimatum: stay neutral in primaries or step down from party leadership. Fox News. Link.
Phuc heem….
Unless that interference is to divert the nomination from Bernie Sanders to Hillary Clinton by giving her fistfuls of Super Delegates and questions that will be used during the debates.
Debbie and Donna still have jobs in the “D”NC machine.
Any reform(s) will not be ‘coming from inside the house’.
What a time to be alive!
Obama made it clear Brazile was acting at his behest when he endorsed her actions after the fact.
Remember that Democrats and their mouthpieces have made it clear that populism is the real danger. So everyone needs to simmer down and color.
If I got this this straight it is; “do as we say, not as we do”. Which means by example that everyone else can also do as they say and not as they do.
What about their efforts to secretly run weak RINO’s in key Republican primaries? They going to stop doing that too?
Paging Hack’s magic 8 ball…
secretly???
BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Don’t you just love it when your enemies are eating one another? heh heh
I wonder what the other MILLIONS of “…survivor(s) of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting…” think of this? I’ve discovered that it is real easy to survive a mass shooting if I’m not there.
PHUQUE HEEM!
And piss on Fox news for keepin’ the lie going!!
They, like everyone else, probably fear backlash and lawsuits for arguing otherwise, even if it’s fairly easy to dispute with witness testimony.
Remember— his own classmates think he’s an enormous lying sack of shit.
Doncha hate it when the MSM and even Fox News says this effeminate little dweeb is a “survivor” of that high school shooting? Hogg-boi wasn’t even in the building where the shooting occurred. Plus, when he first realized there was a shooting in school’s other building, he raced home to get his camera and recorder, so he could be some school on-the- scene reporter and go-to kid for the MSM.
I wonder if George Stephanopoulos believes in being a bystander and allowing elections to not be interfered with. What puke of a human.
BwaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa(Gasp Wheeze) ROFLMAO!!!!!!
Don’t forget the Bud Lite:
Got his cock garage prepped for action.
“Hogg, the 25-year-old survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting…”
Survivor? From what I remember he wasn’t even at the school during the shooting, he only arrived after it was over and inserted himself into the narrative as the spokescreature for all those lost lives.
The guy is a total fraud and assclown.
He was there, the Home Ec teacher hid him in a closet.
https://www.factcheck.org/2018/04/david-hogg-at-school-during-parkland-shooting/
And he’s been out of the closet ever since…
“Survivor”…..
Losers.