Newly appointed Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Ken Martin has signaled a strong pro-labor stance in his first official memo, vowing to counter what he described as President Donald Trump’s “war on working people.”
The Feb. 18 memo lays out the Democratic Party’s strategy to boost its image after former Vice President Kamala Harris lost the popular vote and electoral college to Trump in the 2024 presidential election.
“I believe the canary in the coal mine for what happened on November 5 was the recent showing that, for the first time in modern history, Americans now see the Republicans as the party of the working class and Democrats as the party of the elites,” Martin wrote of last fall’s election….