{"id":1051937,"date":"2025-03-11T15:32:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T19:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1051937"},"modified":"2025-03-11T15:32:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T19:32:01","slug":"icymi-dnc-chair-martin-stresses-importance-of-future-elections-up-and-down-the-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-dnc-chair-martin-stresses-importance-of-future-elections-up-and-down-the-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: DNC Chair Martin Stresses Importance of Future Elections Up and Down the Ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"449\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png 1101w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=300,132 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=768,337 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=1024,449 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Point: <\/strong><em>\u201c\u2018I 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\u2019s an acknowledgement that there\u2019s no such thing as a perpetual red state or perpetual blue state,\u2019 Martin said. \u2018If 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\u2019m a big believer that when you organize everywhere you can win anywhere.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alreporter.com\/2025\/03\/11\/new-dnc-chair-a-change-is-coming\/\"><strong>Alabama Political Reporter<\/strong><\/a><strong>: New DNC chair: A change is coming<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Josh Moon, 3\/11\/25]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>No more concessions.<\/strong> That was the message that new Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin stressed during a recent interview on the Alabama Politics This Week podcast. 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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cWe can\u2019t be a party that\u2019s just focused on federal races if we want to build both for the short term and the long term,\u201d he said. \u201c<strong>We 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.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Martin said \u201cI take a very holistic view on how we build power. We have to compete everywhere across this country. <strong>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<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Point: \u201c\u2018I 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\u2019s an acknowledgement that there\u2019s no such thing as a perpetual red state or perpetual blue state,\u2019 Martin said. \u2018If we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1051937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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