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The 2025 Democratic National Committee chairmanship election was held on February 1, 2025, at the party's winter meeting in National Harbor, Maryland, to determine the next chairperson of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

Feb 2, 2025 · OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Democrats on Saturday elected Ken Martin, the party leader in Minnesota, as the national chair, turning to a low-profile Midwestern political operative to coordinate their resistance to Donald Trump’s presidency. Martin succeeds Jaime Harrison of South Carolina atop the Democratic National Committee.

The deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee was re-established by Tom Perez in February 2017 after his win in the 2017 DNC Chair race.

Jaime Ricardo Harrison (/ ˈ dʒ eɪ m i / JAY-mee; born February 5, 1976) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the chair of the Democratic National Committee from 2021 to 2025. He was chair of the South Carolina Democratic Party from 2013 to 2017.

Feb 1, 2025 · Top Democratic elected officials and billionaire donors found out they don’t have much pull at the Democratic National Committee, where party insiders on Saturday chose a steady hand — Ken...

Feb 1, 2025 · Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party Chairman Ken Martin has been elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Martin secured 246.5 votes of the total 428 members who voted in person and by proxy, and DNC members cheered after he was announced as the winner, chanting, "Yes, we Ken!"

Feb 1, 2025 · Democrats on Saturday elected Ken Martin, the party leader in Minnesota, as the national chair, turning to a low-profile Midwestern political operative to coordinate their resistance to...

Feb 1, 2025 · Today, Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Chair and Association of State Democratic Committees (ASDC) President Ken Martin was elected as the new Chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) with overwhelming support from DNC members on …

Feb 1, 2025 · Ken Martin, the longtime leader of the state Democratic Party organization in Minnesota, will be the new Democratic National Committee chair after winning Saturday’s election, as his party...