Chuck Darwin<p>The winner of the <a href="https://c.im/tags/DNC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DNC</span></a> chair race will help shape the message and priorities of the Democratic party, <br>giving them a crucial role in the party’s efforts to win back the House of Representatives in 2026. </p><p>The race has attracted a large field of candidates</p><p>Two state party chairs <br>– <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ken" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ken</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Martin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Martin</span></a> of Minnesota <br>and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ben" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ben</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wikler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikler</span></a> of Wisconsin <br>– have emerged as "frontrunners"</p><p>The chair candidates have grown punchier as the race draws to a close, <br>-- and the late entry of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Faiz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Faiz</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Shakir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shakir</span></a>, <br>who ran <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bernie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bernie</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sanders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sanders</span></a>’s 2020 presidential campaign, <br>has injected new energy into the race.</p><p>All of the candidates seem to agree that the Democratic party needs to move in a new direction after their 2024 losses, expanding its outreach to the working-class Americans who have lurched to the right in recent years and finding more effective means of communicating their values to voters. </p><p>But the candidates have squabbled over the best strategies and prioritization of those goals, <br>in a display that Shakir said showed a <br>“lack of ambition and a sense of powerlessness about what the DNC could potentially do”.<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/31/dnc-chair-election?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j</span><span class="invisible">an/31/dnc-chair-election?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a></p>