Key Point: “‘I just spent the last eight years as the head of our state party association where I wrote the 57-state strategy – 50 states and of course the seven territories – and it’s an acknowledgement that there’s no such thing as a perpetual red state or perpetual blue state,’ Martin said. ‘If we want to move a red state to a purple state to a blue state, we have to invest time, energy, and money in those places. I’m a big believer that when you organize everywhere you can win anywhere.’”

Alabama Political Reporter: New DNC chair: A change is coming

[Josh Moon, 3/11/25]

• No more concessions. That was the message that new Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin stressed during a recent interview on the Alabama Politics This Week podcast. Martin, who was elected chairman of the party in February, said the DNC, which has spent the last few months reassessing its strengths and weaknesses in the wake of Kamala Harris’s loss to Donald Trump, has landed on an overall strategy.

• “We can’t be a party that’s just focused on federal races if we want to build both for the short term and the long term,” he said. “We have to be competing up and down the ballot – contested races at all levels, from state races to legislative races all the way down to local races.”

• Martin said “I take a very holistic view on how we build power. We have to compete everywhere across this country. We have to compete in every zip code and be organizing in every zip code, and we have to do it up and down the ballot, competing in every race.”