The Daily Populous Sunday February 2nd, 2025 evening edition
Authored by washingtonexaminer.com and submitted by FireFoxG

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — Parkland, Florida, high school shooting survivor David Hogg won his bid to become one of three vice chairs during the Democratic National Committee election on Saturday.

After four rounds of voting, Hogg won 214.5 votes and Pennsylvania state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta won 298 votes, more than the 205 votes needed to become vice chairs.

Artie Blanco of Nevada was also elected as a vice chair during the third round of voting.

“Who’s ready to take the fight to the Republicans and win this thing? Are you guys ready to fight? It’s been a long day, but guess what? We have a long road ahead,” Hogg said in his victory speech. “Let’s go and kick some a**. Let’s go win our young people back, and let’s stop sending just our thoughts and prayers to address gun violence and do something.”

“In the words of Beyonce, America has a problem. But Democrats, we’re about to fix it,” Kenyatta said during his victory speech.

Hogg became a gun control activist and co-founder of March for Our Lives after the 2018 shooting that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

The 24-year-old Hogg ran for vice chair on a campaign citing the DNC’s need for generational change.

“I’m one of the youngest people ever to run for this role,” he told the Black Caucus on Friday evening. “I am the only person in this race that is under the age of 30 from any of the positions that are out there. We need to make sure that we’re supporting our young people. That’s just what I’ve done.”

During his nominating speech, Hogg pointed to his activist roots as why he was running for vice chair.

“After Parkland, our country was in a similar moment where we had a Republican trifecta in Washington, and we as students were told it wasn’t going to be possible for us to create change by many of the same pollsters, pundits, and consultants I’ve heard you all complain about with me on the phone,” Hogg said.

“But guess what? We didn’t listen to them, and that’s why we won,” he continued. “In a Republican state, we said we are going to take on the NRA. And guess what? We won. We raised the age to buy a gun in Florida to 21.”

Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), a former vice presidential candidate for the Democrats last year, endorsed Hogg’s campaign as did Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA).

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Hogg attended Harvard University and created the Leaders We Deserve PAC to elect young lawmakers.

Earlier on Saturday, Reyna Walters-Morgan was elected vice chair for civic engagement and voter participation on the third ballot, defeating two sitting members of Congress, Reps. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) and Nikema Williams (D-GA).

AmateurTrader on February 2nd, 2025 at 14:23 UTC »

Going to echo a lot of the sentiments here. What the DNC needs is a platform that emphasizes supporting all Americans and understanding the issues a majority of people are dealing with. If they keep using the same strategies they’ve used in the past, they will continue losing.

MRSA_Tomei on February 2nd, 2025 at 11:25 UTC »

MTG jump started her career of evil by chasing this kid down with a microphone day after day. I hope that she’s shitting herself right now.

baylaust on February 2nd, 2025 at 06:17 UTC »

Wait, David Hogg?

THAT David Hogg?