Democrats Try To Overturn Election Of Their Own Party Vice Chair

For years, Democrats have decried Republicans as “election deniers,” even using the phrase to justify lawfare against then-former President Donald Trump. But as it turns out, when elections don’t go their way suddenly the process is flawed and democracy is negotiable.

On Monday, the credentials committee of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) voted to overturn the results of an election that led to 25-year-old David Hogg being selected as a party vice chair. (Hogg survived the 2018 Parkland School shooting.)

But the DNC committee argued the election did not follow proper parliamentary procedures. The decision “will put the issue before the full body of the Democratic National Committee,” according to The New York Times. The DNC will then decide “whether to force Mr. Hogg and a second vice chair, Malcolm Kenyatta, to run again in another election later this year,” according to the report.

The committee moved to deny the election results after one of the losing vice chair candidates, Kalyn Free, claimed the party “had wrongly combined two separate questions into a single vote, putting at a disadvantage the female candidates because of the party’s gender-parity rules,” according to The Times.

In a statement before the vote took place, Free said “This is about fairness and making sure that three women and the voting members of the D.N.C. are not disenfranchised,” according to The Times.

Apparently, it’s not “election denial” if the denial comes with a diversity, equity, and inclusion clause.

At first, Christine Pelosi (Nancy Pelosi’s daughter) tried to dismiss the complaint which resulted in a tie vote, according to the report. A second resolution for a new election with the same candidates was eventually approved by the committee.

The DNC’s decision to overturn the election results comes after the committee spent years decrying so-called “election deniers.”

In an April 2024 statement, DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd said Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson “are extreme election deniers and serial liars who are hellbent on threatening our democracy and spreading baseless falsehoods about the 2020 election.”

One month prior to that comment, Floyd chastised former RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel for allegedly trying to “whitewash her record as an election-denying MAGA enabler” before criticizing anyone who platformed her after she demonstrated “such a blatant disregard fort he truth, not to mention our entire democratic system.”

After years of claiming that questioning election outcomes was an existential threat to democracy, Democrats are proving that democracy only matters when their desired candidate wins.