David Hogg, elected in February to be one of the Democratic National Committee’s four vice chairs, is taking the unorthodox approach of working to unseat some Democrat incumbent legislators.
Typically, party apparatchiks avoid weighing in on primary races, deferring instead to party primary voters, but Hogg is apparently dissatisfied with the direction of the Democratic Party.
When DNC Chairman Ken Martin passed around a “neutrality policy” last month asking top party officials to refrain from “call[ing] into question their impartiality and evenhandedness,” Hogg reportedly demurred from signing onto the statement. Instead, Hogg, who turned 25 on Saturday, has planned to challenge older Democrat leaders in safe districts who he views as insufficiently anti-Trump.
His efforts will be a component of a $20 million campaign.
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