One of the three newly elected vice chairmen of the Democratic National Committee is rabid anti-gun activist David Hogg, the angry white male who came into the public arena after the 2018 Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting, in which 17 people died.
He was a student at the school, who has since turned his experience into a platform to take guns away from Americans.
The Democratic National Committee met in National Harbor, Maryland for its winter meeting and election of officers. It has been beset by infighting after suffering major losses in the 2024 general election, losing the presidency, the House, and the Senate.
“I’m deeply grateful to the members for their trust and belief in me and I don’t take it lightly,” Hogg wrote on X/Twitter. “It’s time we stop surrendering, go on offense, and take the fight to Donald Trump. We need to show [the public] who we are again, to rid our party of its judgmental attitudes, and do the work to win back every group we lost this year.”
In 2023, Hogg wrote on X, “You have no right to a gun. You are not a militia. When you’re talking about your second amendment rights, you’re talking about a states right to have what is today the national guard. The modern interpretation of the 2A is a ridiculous fraud pushed for decades by the gun lobby.”
He started his anti-gun quest back in 2018 after the shooting at his high school, saying, “Today we are going to start a revolution. This is the beginning of a lifelong marathon not only for me, but for my generation.”
The party has three vice chairs, in order to accommodate gender balance. The other two elected were Pennsylvania Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta and Artie Blanco of Nevada.
Winning the vote to chair the embattled party was Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party Chairman Ken Martin, who succeeds Jaime Harrison.
Notably, Harrison came to Alaska in 2024 to shore up the party, and when he left he stated that due to ranked-choice voting, it was likely that Alaska would vote to reelect Joe Biden as president. Donald Trump won Alaska with 54.5% of the vote.
During the DNC meeting, outgoing President Harrison became confused by the party’s rules that require DEI quotas that force “gender balance.”
For vice chair, the party had to elect one male, one female, and one person of any gender. Listen to his explanation of the confusion:
In the end, the chairman and vice chairmen of the party are made up by two white men, one black man, and one Latino woman, which fulfills the gender requirement of the party.
