A number of party leaders are frustrated that Hogg, who has a leadership position in the party, is pushing primaries against some incumbents in deep-blue seats.
Democratic party leaders Thursday morning admonished officers to not take sides in primaries, addressing a situation involving activist and Democratic National Committee vice chair David Hogg.
“Let me be unequivocal. No DNC officer should ever attempt to influence the outcome of a primary election, whether on behalf of an incumbent or a challenger,” DNC Chair Ken Martin said in a press call. “Voters should decide who our primary nominees are, not DNC leadership. Our role is to serve as stewards of a fair, open and trusted process, not to tilt the scales.”’
As of now, however, the DNC does not have the power to remove Hogg if he refuses to stand down on funding primary challenges through a separate PAC — unless the body changes its rules, a senior DNC official told NBC News.
“Under the present bylaws, there is no action that can be taken against David Hogg without changing to the bylaws to extend that policy of neutrality to all primaries," DNC Finance Chair Chris Korge told NBC News. "There is no codified, legal way to remove an officer for doing what David Hogg has done because it only extends to the presidential race. "
Korge said that, as of now, the situation is to be addressed at a future meeting, likely in August.
Korge said he believed it was imperative for the body to formally change its bylaws because the party division the Hogg situation has caused harkens to an old ghost Democrats don’t want to revisit.
“It smells like 2016, when progressives said the DNC had it in the bag for Hillary Clinton," Korge said, referencing angst in the party that the DNC had its thumb on the scale to block Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., from the presidential nomination. “No party official, no officer of the DNC, should do anything that would result in the division that was created by the perception that existed back in 2016.”
On Thursday, Martin went on to say he had spoken to Hogg about what he perceived as a conflict but he did not expound on whether he gave him an ultimatum.
“I understand what he’s trying to do,” Martin continued in the press call. “As I’ve said to him, ‘If you want to challenge incumbents, you’re more than free to do that. But just not as an officer of the DNC, because our job is to be a neutral arbiter. We can’t be both the referee and also the player at the same time. You have to make a decision.’”
In pushing back on Thursday, Hogg cited Trump’s power clashes with institutions in saying the party needed to take more aggressive actions. He added that he had not violated any DNC bylaws.
“They’re trying to change the rules because I’m not currently breaking them. As we’re seeing law firms, tech companies, and so many others bowing to Trump, we all must use whatever position of power we have to fight back. And that’s exactly what I’m doing,” Hogg said in a statement.
Lol there was literally 4 months left until the 2024 election when Biden dropped out. Using those few weeks to have a primary and lose the Biden-Harris warchest would’ve made no sense. Every single person that voted for Biden in the primaries ALSO voted for Harris. We all knew that if he stepped down, she’d step up. It literally made sense. Of all the criticisms against Democrats, this is a very very stupid one. The Democratic party would’ve imploded even harder than it already is. People that played the “We DiDnT vOtE fOr HER iN tHe PrImaRiEs” were literally just looking for an excuse to not vote in the general and not feel bad about themselves.
I mean, I literally didn’t vote for Biden-Harris in the primaries. I think I voted for Dean Phillips?
But yeah, honestly, if they hadn’t had Biden step down the election would have been an unmitigated disaster, like 1984 bad. I really think that they had a solid chance to win, but then they pivoted away from the excitement and new, raw energy in the Harris-Walz ticket and pivoted into “Look! It’s Katy Perry and Beyonce, wow! Look, here’s Obama lecturing down to black men, it’s not even a little cringe! Look, it’s Liz Cheney! Worried that we’ll say mean things about republicans? We muzzled Walz!” At some point, it reminded me a lot of the HRC 16 campaign, and it turns out there was good reason for that: they put the top HRC '16 people in charge of the Harris campaign. If anyone ever deserves to get struggle sessioned, it’s those folks. Maybe not killed, but definitely at least the public dunce hat treatment.
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Maybe, instead of repeating disproven propaganda, you acknowledge the fact that Harris was not the candidate anyone left of burning orphans for warmth wanted.
She started out quite strong then the Hillary advisors stepped in and she started cozying up to "ex"Republicans as if that would get her some sort of cross support from the maga cult.
She started out strong solely from the idea that Biden finally stepped down and she might be different. Then within a day of the announcement she essentially sank her chances by suggesting she’d stay the course and that the Biden admin did well.
Regardless of her advisors, she said the Biden economy was good and she would continue it… That killed all reasonable votes from the poor and middle class.
She was kinda stuck with that though because she was still VP and whether fair or not that is also viewed as her economy. The economy being good and costs for the average citizen aren’t the same thing anymore and I think that doesn’t really “compute”. Was a lot better than the current economy anyway…
Yeah, I still think that was the advisors. The DNC is really big on hierarchy and shit, and there’s a lot of high ranking people that would have shit their pants in horror if Kamala had admitted anything bad about Joe.