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MINNEAPOLIS, MN – As Democrats hunger for more forceful pushback against sweeping and controversial moves by President Donald Trump and Republicans, the party’s national chair stressed that it’s time to “stand up and fight.”
And in a fiery speech Monday, Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair Ken Martin argued that the president is acting as “a dictator-in-chief” and that Trump’s second administration is “facism dressed in a red tie.”
“We are the only thing standing in his way,” Martin emphasized as he addressed the more than 400 elected party officials from all 50 states and seven territories, as the summer meeting kicked off at a downtown hotel in his hometown of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
“Are you ready to take back our country from the wannabe-king in the White House,” he asked the audience, to loud cheers.
Martin, pointing to the forceful response by Democrats to moves this summer by Trump and Republicans to create more right-leaning U.S. House seats in states across the country through rare mid-decade congressional redistricting ahead of next year’s midterm elections, said that he’s “sick and tired of this Democratic Party bringing a pencil to a knife fight.”
“We cannot be the only party that plays by the rules anymore,” he urged.
Democratic Party leaders and officials face a multitude of problems as they try to escape the political wilderness.
The party is trying to escape the political wilderness after last year’s elections, when Democrats lost control of the White House and the Senate and fell short in their bid to win back the House majority. And Republicans made gains with voters who make up key parts of the Democratic Party’s base.
But the situation has only worsened for the Democrats in the 10 months since last year’s election setbacks.
The Democrats’ brand is deeply unpopular, especially with younger voters, as the party’s poll numbers continue to drop to all-time lows in national surveys.
The DNC faces a massive fundraising deficit at the hands of the rival Republican National Committee (RNC), fueled in part by major party donors cutting back their contributions as they express their frustrations with the national party committee.
New voter data first reported last week by the New York Times showed Democratic Party registration plunging while GOP sign-ups were on the rise in the 30 states that register voters by party.
“There’s no doubt that … we have work to do,” Martin acknowledged in a sit-down interview this summer with Fox News Digital.
But seeing a silver lining, he added that “when you hit rock bottom, there’s only one direction to go, and that’s up, and that’s what we’re doing.”
On Monday, amid talk that Democrats remain divided over a slew of policy and political issues, Martin highlighted that “in this big tent party of ours, we are unified towards one single goal, to stop Donald Trump and put this country back on track.”
And while the Democratic Party’s poll numbers are in the gutter, the approval and favorable ratings for Trump and the GOP are nothing to brag about. Plus, polls indicate that the so-called ‘Big Beautiful Bill,’ which is the Trump-inspired massive Republican domestic policy, tax cuts and spending law, remains unpopular with Americans.
“We’ve already won, this year, 38 special elections…..We’re winning all across this country, including in many places that haven’t gone blue in generations,” Martin touted.
And he said that “not all of these elections make national news, but I know that every race matters. Every inch of ground that we gain matters. Every single inch.”
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