The curtain is closing on David Hogg’s time as a DNC Vice Chair.
The Democratic National Committee recently completed a virtual vote which wrapped up on Wednesday. According to Politico, which accessed the results, the committee vacated the two vice chair positions held by Hogg and Pennsylvania state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta. Consequently, they plan to hold a new election for those positions in the upcoming week.
Nate Silver pointed out that the issue arose from a classic “DNC” problem—there was a complication with how the prior vote was conducted, particularly because of gender representation rules.
This is Olympic-level DNC’ing. You can’t DNC any harder than this. pic.twitter.com/hlEafHY51x
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) June 11, 2025
Due to DNC rules mandating equal gender representation on its executive committee, excluding the party chair, the outcome of the elections held in February required the DNC to elect at least one man to its last two vice chair slots. However, rather than conducting separate votes for each position—with one reserved for a male and the other open to any gender candidate—the committee opted for a single vote to determine the occupants of the final two slots.
Then, on top of the furor over Hogg’s position going after “ineffective incumbents” with his organization, Leaders We Deserve, he had a phone call with DNC Chair Ken Martin that was leaked. This was hilarious, with Martin whining about how Hogg had destroyed his ability to show the leadership he needed to show. He said he didn’t know, “if I want to do this anymore,” and “no one knows how the hell I am.”
DNC Chair Ken Martin just told Democrat Party elites “I don’t know if I wanna do this anymore” because of infighting with DNC Vice Chair David Hogg, who is challenging incumbent House Democrats. Sad! 🤣 pic.twitter.com/z2tAD0K6UV
— NRCC (@NRCC) June 8, 2025
This is the “leader” of the DNC? People were mocking him for sounding like he was crying.
Now, both Hogg and the other Vice Chair, Pennsylvania state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta, could run again in the new election next week.
But Hogg said he wouldn’t be running again, hitting at the Party’s “lack of vision” and not passing the “torch.”
“I came into this role to play a positive role in creating the change our party needs. It is clear that there is a fundamental disagreement about the role of a Vice Chair — and it’s okay to have disagreements. What isn’t okay is allowing this to remain our focus when there is so much more we need to be focused on,” he said in the statement.
“Ultimately, I have decided to not run in this upcoming election so the party can focus on what really matters. I need to do this work with Leaders We Deserve, and it is going to remain my number one mission to build the strongest party possible.”
The DNC thought putting him in the position would broaden their base and show they were reaching out to young men.
It seems like all he brought was discord, and they still have that problem with young men. Not only did this reveal more dysfunction, but it may antagonize the folks on the left they were trying to appeal to by bringing him in.
