State Senator James Skoufis of New York introduced on Sunday what is for certain to be a long-shot bid to turn into chairman of the Democratic Nationwide Committee, pitching himself as an outsider candidate who has received in part of the nation the place President-elect Donald J. Trump prevailed.
Mr. Skoufis, 37, has served within the New York State Legislature for a dozen years however is a digital unknown exterior Albany and his district, which covers Orange County within the Hudson Valley. He enters the race with out intensive relationships with celebration members past New York State — a detriment he goals to show into a bonus.
“We tried the D.C. Beltway thing, we tried the decades-long operative thing, we tried the sort of party machine thing over and over and over and over again,” Mr. Skoufis mentioned in an interview final week. “And here we are.”
The place Democrats are is locked out of energy in Washington, going through many years of conservative dominance over the federal courts and seemingly extra depressed about Mr. Trump’s imminent return to energy than motivated to win again political management.
On this setting, a candidate like Mr. Skoufis has little to lose and far to achieve ought to he depart D.N.C. members with a constructive impression — to not point out that will probably be far simpler to get booked on cable tv as a candidate for celebration chair than as only a state senator.
Mr. Skoufis, who in an announcement video declared himself each an “outsider” and an “underdog,” enters the race with no single endorsement from one of many 448 voting members of the nationwide committee. He joins a area that features Ken Martin, the Minnesota Democratic chairman, and Martin O’Malley, the previous Maryland governor. Different potential candidates embrace Ben Wikler, the Wisconsin Democratic chairman; Max Rose, a former congressman from Staten Island; and Chuck Rocha, a veteran Democratic marketing consultant.
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