{"id":1052871,"date":"2025-05-08T16:33:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T20:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1052871"},"modified":"2025-05-08T16:33:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T20:33:53","slug":"icymi-washington-post-the-dnc-chair-wants-his-party-to-play-the-long-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-washington-post-the-dnc-chair-wants-his-party-to-play-the-long-game\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Washington Post: The DNC Chair Wants His Party To Play the Long Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Key Point: <\/strong>\u201cMartin, the newly elected chair of the Democratic National Committee, hopes the adage can turn around his party\u2019s fortunes in the South \u2026 To tackle this issue, Martin and the head of the Association of State Democratic Chairs signed an agreement that will boost funding for every state party in the nation, but increase funding even more in red states \u2014 the 23 states where Republicans are dominant in both federal and state politics. \u2026 \u2018If you do this the right way, you can build both to win and to last,\u2019 Martin said.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2025\/05\/08\/dnc-chair-wants-his-party-play-long-game\/\"><strong>Washington Post<\/strong><\/a><strong>: The DNC chair wants his party to play the long game<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Dan Merica, Matthew Choi and Jacob Bogage<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Hockey fan Ken Martin is known to quote Wayne Gretzky\u2019s famed \u201cskate to where the puck is going\u201d mantra.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Gretzky used the maxim to become \u201cThe Great One.\u201d Martin, the newly elected chair of the Democratic National Committee, hopes the adage can turn around his party\u2019s fortunes in the South, where studies have found that political power could surge after upcoming congressional and electoral college reapportionment based on the 2030 census.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cIt is time for us to reimagine the DNC,\u201d Martin told us. \u201cAnd every crisis has an opportunity, and after the election, it was a crisis moment for our party, and it is an opportunity for us to reimagine the DNC and what its role is.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cAs a Democratic Party, as the DNC, we actually have to have a longer-term plan, and we have to skate to where the puck will be,\u201d Martin said. \u201cWe have to understand we can\u2019t get caught flat-footed after the census and after the map shifts from underneath us.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This issue could be existential for Democrats. If the 2032 apportionment goes as planned, Democrats\u2019 path to the presidency will be fundamentally altered: The \u201cblue wall\u201d states that vote reliably Democratic won\u2019t be enough anymore. The party\u2019s chances of a lasting majority in the House will also be notably dented.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>To tackle this issue, Martin and the head of the Association of State Democratic Chairs signed an agreement that will boost funding for every state party in the nation, but increase funding even more in red states \u2014 the 23 states where Republicans are dominant in both federal and state politics. Every state party will receive $17,500 a month from the national party, an increase of $5,000 from the last agreement, but red states will receive $22,500 a month.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cIf you do this the right way, you can build both to win and to last,\u201d Martin said. \u201cThe focus by the DNC and by our committees in D.C. just on federal races has left so much \u2026 not actually helping us build the party up and down in a holistic manner.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Point: \u201cMartin, the newly elected chair of the Democratic National Committee, hopes the adage can turn around his party\u2019s fortunes in the South \u2026 To tackle this issue, Martin and the head of the Association of State Democratic Chairs signed an agreement that will boost funding for every state party in the nation, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":293,"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-1052871","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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