Mark Halperin Doubts DNC Chair Picks Can ‘Affect’ Party Enough to Compete With GOP
Political analyst Mark Halperin said Friday on Newsmax that, regardless of who is confirmed as the Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair, he doesn’t believe it can “affect” the party enough to compete with the GOP…
Political analyst Mark Halperin said Friday on Newsmax that, regardless of who is confirmed as the Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair, he doesn’t believe it can “affect” the party enough to compete with the GOP.
Both Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party Chairman Ken Martin and Wisconsin Democratic Party Chairman Ben Wikler are front-runner options for DNC chair. Members are set to meet and vote on Saturday. On “Rob Schmitt Tonight,” Halperin was asked his thoughts on the two frontrunners. Halperin discussed the Democratic Party and how he said it’s struggling.
“In terms of the DNC race, these two people, one of these two, Martin or Wickler, who’ll probably win, they’re tacticians. They’re state chairs. They’re not national names,” Halperin said. “I don’t know that Donald Trump will even know their names, right? Because all they aspire to do is raise money and make the state parties happy. That’s an important role.”
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“But you’ve seen in the past, on occasion, Ron Brown, for instance, in the Democratic Party in 1990, be leaders, coordinating, getting the message out, being on TV as a strong surrogate, getting up in the grill of the president of the other party,” Halperin added. “Those two guys, they both have their strengths, but no matter who wins, I don’t think it’s going to affect the ability of the Democratic Party to compete right now on the things that matter.”
Candidates to lead the DNC held a forum Thursday at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. The contenders blamed alleged racist and sexist Americans for not voting for former Vice President Kamala Harris. Climate activists affiliated with the Sunrise Movement, meanwhile, disrupted the event.