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Democrats need to prepare for an ongoing fight against Republicans at all levels of government, not just the White House, their newly appointed deputy national chairman said on Saturday. "We can't just say it's all about Trump," Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., said at the New Hampshire Democratic Party's annual meeting.
Fifty years ago, give or take a few weeks, subscribers to the quarterly Leftist journal Partisan Review were just settling down with the Winter 1967 edition - accompanied, one imagines, by a nice dry martini and a freshly-opened pack of Chesterfields . That edition of Partisan Review featured a symposium in which sixteen luminaries of the period offered their answers to the question: "What's happening to America?" Among those luminaries was Lefty activist, writer, and lesbian Susan Sontag.
Rep. Keith Ellison on Friday blasted President Trump's revised travel ban, questioning the justification for the executive order. "Well it ... starts out with bad intentions," the deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee said in an interview with CNN.
Rep. Keith Ellison on Friday pressed FBI Director James Comey to shed more light about the agency's probe of President Trump's team's connections to Russia, saying he doubts the truth "is going to be forthcoming" from Trump's administration. "How come not only ... [Michael] Flynn and, too now, [Attorney General Jeff] Sessions have been found saying things, denying that they were in contact with Russian diplomats when in fact they demonstrably were?" Ellison said in an interview with CNN.
The Democratic National Committee, fresh off their loss to Donald J. Trump and the GOP, is bringing in new leadership to try to regain political power. And one of their new leaders is Deputy Chairman Keith Ellison, Congressional Representative from Minnesota.
One of the reasons I thought the Democratic Party was about to turn the page on the acrimony of the presidential primaries was because the two leading candidates to run the Democratic National Committee were speaking the same language. Not only that, the campaign waged by former labor secretary Tom Perez and Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., was devoid of vitriol and personal attacks.
If Hillary Clinton had won the presidency last year, Tom Perez, the freshly elected Democratic National Committee chair, might well be entering his second month running her Justice Department. Instead, Perez was welcomed into his new job on Saturday by jeering progressive activists, who for the second time in a year, saw their preferred pick to lead the party defeated after a protracted and unexpectedly feisty campaign.
This last weekend , I stated that the election of Thomas Perez as Chairman of the DNC and Keith Ellison as Deputy Chair, was the official beginning of an all out war between President Trump and the leftist Democrats. Trump is addressing the American people tonight and the Democrats' nifty little plans have been revealed.
Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski told "Fox News Sunday" that the election of former Obama Labor Secretary Tom Perez as Democratic National Committee chairman shows that the Democrats continue to be out of touch with mainstream America. "What this says to me that they have now put someone in the chair of Democratic Party who doesn't understand what's going on in America.
Former Labor Secretary Tom Perez, who is a candidate to run the Democratic National Committee, speaks during the general session of the DNC winter meeting in Atlanta, Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017. ORG XMIT: GABC107 less Former Labor Secretary Tom Perez, who is a candidate to run the Democratic National Committee, speaks during the general session of the DNC winter meeting in Atlanta, Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017.
Democrats elected former Labor Secretary Tom Perez as their new national chairman on Feb. 25, 2017, over Rep. Keith Ellison, a liberal Minnesota congressman, after a divisive campaign that reflected the depths of the party's electoral failures. New DNC chairman Thomas Perez talks about the future of the Democratic Party with "Meet the Press" moderator Chuck Todd on Feb. 26, 2017.
Newly elected Democratic national chairman Tom Perez pledged on Sunday to unite a fractured party, rebuild at all levels from "school board to the Senate" and reach out to chunks of rural America left feeling forgotten in the 2016 election. Speaking in television interviews, Perez indicated that an important first step was joining with vanquished rival Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, who agreed at Perez's invitation to serve as the Democratic National Committee's deputy chairman.
Newly elected Democratic national chairman Tom Perez pledged on Sunday to unite a fractured party, rebuild at all levels from "school board to the Senate" and reach out to chunks of rural America left feeling forgotten in the 2016 election. Speaking in television interviews, Perez indicated that an important first step was joining with vanquished rival Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, who agreed at Perez's invitation to serve as the Democratic National Committee's deputy chairman.
Former Labor Secretary Tom Perez, who is a candidate to run the Democratic National Committee, before speaking during the general session of the DNC winter meeting in Atlanta, Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017. Former Labor Secretary Tom Perez, who is a candidate to run the Democratic National Committee, before speaking during the general session of the DNC winter meeting in Atlanta, Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017.
When Tom Perez stepped to the stage as the newly elected Democratic national chairman, his first official act was to invite his vanquished rival to join him as deputy chairman. Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison accepted on the spot and two men stood together, smiling like a national ticket at a presidential nominating convention.
Tom Perez, the former Labor Department secretary, was elected Democratic National Committee chairman and immediately named his rival, Keith Ellison, as his deputy. Perez was elected Saturday on the second ballot, winning 235 votes out of 435 cast at a gathering in Atlanta of the electors.
Tom Perez, the former Labor Department secretary, was elected Democratic National Committee chairman and immediately named his rival, Keith Ellison, as his deputy. Perez was elected Saturday on the second ballot, winning 235 votes out of 435 cast at a gathering in Atlanta of the electors.