DNC chair shrugs off socialist–moderate tension as Mamdani’s rise rattles Democrats

Zohran Mamdani seems to be on the verge of changing into the following mayor of the nation’s most populous metropolis.

And a victory by the 34-year-old democratic socialist state lawmaker from New York Metropolis would seal the rise of the far left within the Democratic Celebration.

Whereas many Democrats concern the political fallout and the way it might gas Republican efforts to make Mayor Mamdani the face of a Democratic Celebration that wishes to usher in socialism, Ken Martin is not involved.

“What it exhibits is the good breadth of our celebration,” the Democratic Nationwide Committee chairman mentioned this week in a one-on-one interview with Fox Information Digital in Philadelphia as he cruised the 2025 marketing campaign path.

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Zohran Mamdani, candidate for mayor of New York Metropolis, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DY, react on stage throughout a “New York is Not For Sale” rally at Forest Hills Stadium, within the Queens borough of New York Metropolis on October 26, 2025. (Reuters/Eduardo Munoz)

A possible victory for Mamdani in New York Metropolis, the place he has a double-digit lead within the polls, may very well be accompanied by potential victories for average Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey and former Rep. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia in the one two states holding gubernatorial elections this 12 months.

“We have now conservative Democrats, now we have centrist Democrats, now we have progressives and now we have leftists. And I’ve at all times mentioned you win elections by addition, not by subtraction. You win by bringing individuals into your coalition and rising your celebration,” Martin praised.

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Martin acknowledged that Democrats “do not agree on all the pieces. There are a lot of completely different concepts about obtain our targets, however we’re united round these targets. We’re united to make sure that individuals’s lives turn into extra inexpensive and that we will create an financial system that works for everybody on this nation. We’re united in stopping Donald Trump on his authoritarian fringe, his tearing up of our Structure.”

As Democrats attempt to escape the political wilderness after gorgeous setbacks in final 12 months’s elections, when the celebration misplaced management of the White Home and Senate and didn’t regain the bulk within the Home of Representatives, Republicans are portraying their rivals as a leaderless celebration held hostage by the far left.

However Martin emphasised his celebration’s range, saying, “Whether or not you are a far-left Democrat or a conservative Democrat, or one thing in between, everyone seems to be welcome on this massive tent celebration of ours.”

Democratic Nationwide Committee Chairman Ken Martin addresses celebration members throughout the DNC’s summer time assembly on August 25, 2025 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Paul Steinhauser/Fox Information)

The Republican Nationwide Committee took difficulty with the Democrats’ massive tent.

“Ken Martin’s so-called ‘massive tent’ celebration consists of communists, anti-Semites and unlawful aliens, when apparently the one individuals not welcome are hardworking American households. The prisoners are actually working the asylum within the Democratic Celebration, which is why the DNC is broke and proudly supporting a communist for mayor of New York Metropolis,” RNC Nationwide Press Secretary Kiersten Pels claimed in an announcement to Fox Information Digital.

Martin, pointing to the Republican Celebration, argued that they “mainly have one ideology and don’t enable any dissent.”

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Martin was interviewed a couple of days after a brand new center-left group known as ‘Welcome’ argued of their opening report that left-wing concepts and rhetoric have severely weakened the Democratic Celebration. And the group urged Democrats to jettison among the celebration’s progressive language on race and LGBTQ points. The information was first reported from Semafor.

Requested for his opinion, Martin mentioned he had but to learn the report, however emphasised that “the Democratic Celebration can stroll and chew gum on the identical time.”

“We will each concentrate on a core financial message that makes the individuals of this nation really feel like we will struggle for his or her financial future, that they’ve an opportunity to get forward… whereas standing up and combating for our values. Be sure nobody is left behind. Be sure… people who find themselves being harassed, bullied or pushed out of the dialog are protected.”

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“We’re the Democratic Celebration. We have now fought for the working class and the poor, and now we have at all times fought towards bigotry and discrimination, and we’ll proceed to do each,” he pledged.