Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, who’s working to be the subsequent chair of the Democratic Nationwide Committee (DNC), described himself because the candidate who is probably going one of many “best operational turnaround leaders” within the get together’s historical past.
“It is a change-maker election, and we need to make some changes if we’re going to win,” O’Malley mentioned in an interview with MSNBC’s Jen Psaki on Sunday.
He mentioned the DNC shouldn’t elect a “caretaker” as chair, or somebody who would proceed to do issues as they’ve been carried out.
Democrats are reeling from a deeply disappointing election that noticed them lose the White Home to President-elect Trump. The get together additionally misplaced the Senate majority and did not win again the Home majority.
The battle to be the subsequent chair of the DNC is being waged within the context of how the get together can finest emerge from its losses.
O’Malley famous that among the many different candidates, he’s the one one which’s led a nationwide committee. He served because the chair of the Democratic Governors Affiliation from 2011 to 2013.
Roughly half a dozen candidates have entered the race.
O’Malley identified that he’s the one candidate that beforehand served as governor and mayor, underscoring his expertise as a profitable candidate. He famous that he served and was reelected amid the 2008 recession as a result of he was centered on “economic kitchen-table concerns.”
“Finally, I am probably one of the best operational turnaround leaders in our party today, and I’ve proven it at every level including when the president asked me to turn Social Security around so it would not collapse in a customer service meltdown in an election year,” O’Malley mentioned.
President Biden tapped O’Malley in 2023 to be commissioner of the Social Safety Administration.
O’Malley mentioned the brand new DNC chair must “talk to the people on the front lines.”
“We need to create a ‘Center for Digital Communications Excellence’ within the DNC. Our candidates should not have to rely on their brother-in-law’s best guess as to where to place Facebook ads,” he mentioned.
The get together’s candidates, O’Malley argued, must be supplied with top-of-the-line advertising analytics, expertise and strategies to they will “actually communicate that economic message.”
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