OXON HILL, Md. – The Democratic National Committee has chosen the storied leader of the party in Minnesota as its national leader. Ken Martin will head the machinery to retake the Trump-dominated Congress in the 2026 midterms and lay groundwork to elect a Democrat to the White House in 2028. For 14 years Martin has chaired the Minnesota DFL. In the past eight years the Democrats have won every statewide Minnesota office. At the national committee meeting in Onox Hill, Martin won 246.5 votes to 134 for Wisconsin’s Ben Wikler and 44 for Maryland’s Martin O’Malley.
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Martin: “We’re going to go out there and take this fight to Donald Trump.”