Ex-labor secretary Tom Perez elected DNC chair

“We need Keith Ellison as the DNC chair”.

“You can not like Perez, you can not like Ellison, Harrison, you can not like any of the candidates, but you probably hate Trump more”, Martin said.

So who is Tom Perez? Greene picked up one-half vote of support. Another competitor in the race is South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg.

Ellison, for instance, garnered endorsements not just from Sanders but from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.).

Perez, the son of Dominican immigrants who was considered a potential running mate for Clinton, overcame a strong challenge from Ellison and prevailed on a 235-200 second-round vote.

“He would help our party catch up, and make it possible for us to get more people registered and turn out more people to vote on election day”, Lewis said.

“We are all in this together”, Perez said, as he called on Democrats to unite against “the worst president in the history of the United States”.

Former Sec. Perez has outlined a strategy of rebuilding the party in every zip code.

“Millions of people stood up and said “Donald Trump you do not stand for America”.

The DNC was already under duress by the time Trump won, the victim of an electronic hacking scandal in which emails showed then Chairwoman Rep.

Ellison wiped away tears, thanked his supporters, and said “We don’t have the luxury of going out of this room divided”. He promised to raise voter turnout, and raise money from small donations.

“The reality is that this was a hard choice between a number of solid progressive candidates all with track records of positive organizational development and grassroots campaign experience”, Mancini said in a release. She was elevated to interim chair after a batch of WikiLeaks emails were released before the party’s convention that displayed some DNC staffers’ clear distaste for Sen.

Perez was one vote shy after the first ballot held Saturday, but received enough support in the second to become the first Latino chairman of the Democratic Party’s governing body.

Perez is seen by many who were upset about the DNC’s treatment of Sanders during the election as a continuation of rampant insiderism and corporatism in the party.

Democrats have elected a former labour secretary in Barack Obama’s administration as their new leader – a role analysts say would be crucial to helping the Democratic Party regain federal power, which has been lost to a great degree to the Republican Party. Perez’s support for the TPP is an awkward position as the Democratic party continues to be pulled to the left by the populist Massachusetts Sen.