{"id":2384678,"date":"2024-12-30T11:22:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T16:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dnc-chairman-hopeful-demands-democrats-pour-cash-into-red-states-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-12-30T11:22:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T16:22:35","slug":"dnc-chairman-hopeful-demands-democrats-pour-cash-into-red-states-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dnc-chairman-hopeful-demands-democrats-pour-cash-into-red-states-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC chairman hopeful demands Democrats pour cash into red states &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdnc-chairman-hopeful-demands-democrats-pour-cash-into-red-states-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2384678&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>New York State Senator James Skoufis,a candidate for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair,is advocating for the Democrats \u2063to invest\u200d considerably in traditionally Republican states. This proposal aims to broaden the party&#8217;s \u200cinfluence and \u2064presence \u2062in\u2062 areas where they \u200bhave historically struggled. Skoufis highlights \u200cthe importance of financing efforts in these \u2062regions to enhance the Democratic party&#8217;s competitiveness and outreach.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">DNC chairman hopeful demands Democrats pour cash into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-skips-fact-checking-to-run-with-nurses-unverified-story-about-covid-patients-last-dying-words\/\" title=\"CNN Skips Fact-Checking To Run With Nurse&#039;s Unverified Story About COVID Patients &#039;Last Dying Words&#039;\">red states<\/a><\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1916907\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>New York state Sen. James Skoufis, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/dnc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Democratic National Committee\">Democratic National Committee<\/a> chairman candidate, is calling for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/democratic-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Democrats\">Democrats<\/a> to take the fight to Republican states.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>In his <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/Skoufis-DNC-Platform-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"platform\">platform<\/a>, obtained by the <em>Hill<\/em>, Skoufis used anti-elitist rhetoric to argue that he is the best candidate for the job, saying the current heads of the DNC were &ldquo;inside-the-Beltway elites&rdquo; who led the party astray. He cast himself as a centrist who could unite the party.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">New York State Sen. James Skoufis, right, and Sulome Anderson, Terry Anderson&rsquo;s daughter, attend a memorial gathering for Terry Anderson at the Associated Press headquarters in New York, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. Skoufis presented a posthumous Liberty Medal for Terry Anderson&rsquo;s contributions to journalism and his advocacy for homeless veterans in the Hudson Valley. (AP Photo\/Cedar Attanasio)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;Working with every DNC member, I will build a Democratic Party organizing machine that competes in every district, invests in our state and local parties, and breaks free from the stranglehold of the elite, insular, out-of-touch D.C. consultant class and self-serving special interest groups,&rdquo; says his platform.<\/p>\n<p>Skoufis pledged to &ldquo;dramatically&rdquo; raise the party&rsquo;s Red State Fund and &ldquo;loosen the counterproductive criteria to qualify so states that <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">make hard-fought inroads &#038;mdash<\/a>; such as by winning a key race or breaking a Republican supermajority &mdash; don&rsquo;t suddenly lose the resources they rely on the day after Election Day.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Other parts of the platform call for an investment into figuring out Democratic losses with young and minority voters. He pledged to boost the salaries of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maga-war-how-infighting-in-three-key-swing-states-could-cost-republicans-big\/\" title=\"MAGA war: How infighting in three key swing states could cost Republicans big\">local party leaders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He also focused a substantial amount of energy on communications.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll employ and deploy effective, sharp, persuasive communicators and content creators with the rapid response tools and messaging they need to push back on all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-taxpayers-foot-six-figure-bill-for-gov-newsoms-celebrity-photographer\/\" title=\"California Taxpayers Foot Six-Figure Bill For Gov. Newsom&#039;s Celebrity Photographer\">platforms &#038;mdash<\/a>; from TikTok to Sunday shows. No lie or misstep will go unchallenged. And the new communications shop will no longer cede major swathes of media to Republicans,&rdquo; said Skoufis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Skoufis is singing a much different tune than outgoing DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison, who guided the party in a decidedly more progressive direction. He announced he would not be seeking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/live-blog-posts\/dnc-chair-harrison-will-not-seek-reelection-next-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"reelection\">reelection<\/a> after the Democrats&rsquo; electoral debacle on Nov. 5.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Skoufis has explicitly <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JamesSkoufis\/status\/1855314575396123133\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"called\">called<\/a> on the party to &ldquo;stop engaging in woke politics.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1916907\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1916907\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNC chair candidate Skoufis urges Democrats to invest in red states<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":2384679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/James-Skoufis.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3879,3685,7705,6513,33640],"class_list":["post-2384678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-chairman","tag-democrats","tag-dnc","tag-funding","tag-red-states"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/James-Skoufis.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2384678"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2384682,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384678\/revisions\/2384682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2384679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2384678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2384678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2384678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}