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Ken Martin

Ken Martin

Chairperson of the Democratic National CommitteeWikipedia

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Sep 11, 2026

Jane KleebGUEST
10:34
Even Lynn Walls has a shot of winning governors.
Jane KleebGUEST
10:37
So we are winning in places that you wouldn't normally think Democrats can because Ken Martin's strategy at the DNC of organizing everywhere to win anywhere is... actually working.
Luke RussertHOST
10:49
You mentioned desperation.
Luke RussertHOST
10:51
And the mark of desperation, at least for me, is someone who goes up on stage and says, if you vote for me, I'll give you $5,000.
Jonathan LemirePANELIST
15:13
Yeah.
Joe ScarboroughHOST
15:13
For Ken Martin.
Jonathan LemirePANELIST
15:14
Seriously.
Joe ScarboroughHOST
15:15
What, what does Ken Martin have on Donald Trump?
Jonathan LemirePANELIST
15:18
Oh.
Joe ScarboroughHOST
15:18
I don't know, but here's James Talarico from yesterday.
Sarah LongwellHOST
31:06
That's like who gets to center, which voices they don't want to work on Fridays.
Sarah LongwellHOST
31:10
Like Ken Martin, like one of these Ken Martin's like, well, people from the DNC need to come back to work.
Sarah LongwellHOST
31:15
And they're all like, we are in revolt.
Sarah LongwellHOST
31:16
We will not come back to work.
Max BlumenthalGUEST
69:59
But you should know that they didn't vote for you because of that.
Max BlumenthalGUEST
70:03
And I think now it's well understood within the party elite, with Ken Martin at the DNC covering up aspects of the internal review of the 2024 defeat, that that's a reason they lost.
Max BlumenthalGUEST
70:17
And so this needs to be reinforced again and again And that's all I can advocate for.
Max BlumenthalGUEST
70:22
But I'm not really an advocate.
Brent ScherPANELIST
12:49
The fundraising in the Democrat Party right now is better to some of these socialist groups.
Brent ScherPANELIST
12:54
The party under Ken Martin is a disaster.
Brent ScherPANELIST
12:57
It has no money.
Brent ScherPANELIST
12:59
So this event that we are at right now is the Republicans and Trump's political team are viewing it as the kickoff of election season.
Symone Sanders-TownsendHOST
18:34
Does the Democratic National Committee have the money that the RNC has at this point? No, but they don't have it because they spent it.
Symone Sanders-TownsendHOST
18:39
And so Ken Martin did raise a lot of money.
Symone Sanders-TownsendHOST
18:41
Now, there are people that say they wish he could raise some more right now.
Symone Sanders-TownsendHOST
18:44
That's that's valid.
Rob FlahertyHOST
1:08
We're going to spend $6 in the back room of an Arby's.
Jesse LehrichHOST
1:12
As you know, I'm not one to hand it to Ken Martin.
Jesse LehrichHOST
1:14
But I do think he low-key tricked Donald Trump into throwing a giant
Rob FlahertyHOST
1:18
Donald Trump party and making all of the Republicans spend $25,000.
Rob FlahertyHOST
1:23
campaign cash to attend his I'm so unpopular party.
Rob FlahertyHOST
1:27
That is an unbelievable and completely plausible theory.
Rob FlahertyHOST
1:30
Ken Martin, Jedi mind trick.
Rob FlahertyHOST
1:32
Donald Trump.
Hyma MooreGUEST
20:08
So I think it's, as an incumbent party, it's different for them, but as the Democrats right now, it would not be smart to do.
Hyma MooreGUEST
20:14
But I do think Ken Martin, he was on CNN earlier talking about this, he's gotta find ways to get more money in the door.
Hyma MooreGUEST
20:20
He's gotta find ways to make sure that these, the state parties, the coordinated campaigns can, can do what they need to do to counteract what's gonna happen in the next two weeks, and that's what I'm afraid of right now.
Hyma MooreGUEST
20:31
I just don't know where they're gonna be able to find that level of support to counteract, uh, what's about to happen.
Kasie HuntHOST
11:41
Plus, high prices, an unpopular war, and a president deep underwater.
Kasie HuntHOST
11:46
With all that GOP baggage, why aren't Democrats flying higher? I'll speak to DNC Chair Ken Martin this hour.
Kasie HuntHOST
12:02
President Trump is rallying Republicans in Dallas tonight at the first ever GOP midterm convention.
Kasie HuntHOST
12:08
This is probably not the headline they'd like to kick things off.

12 MINS LATER

Kasie HuntHOST
24:02
Um, Allison Gordon with that reporting.
Kasie HuntHOST
24:03
Allison, thank you very much for being here.
Kasie HuntHOST
24:05
All right, coming up next here, Democrats say they're a big-tent party, but how far can the tent stretch before it starts to impact crucial battleground races? DNC chief Ken Martin is next.
Kasie HuntHOST
24:16
[upbeat music] [whoosh] With just under eight weeks to go until election day, President Trump has never been more unpopular, but headed into the campaign's final stretch, Republicans have a huge cash advantage, as their midterm convention kicks off tonight.
DestinyHOST
55:01
But if you have a media environment that's constantly stabbing you in the back and is never getting up with anything, it's like jesus it's so hard to make anything work whereas in the right wing bro you could be anybody and these guys will welcome you with open arms as long as you're carrying the party line and you know i use the backing band analogy you could be a shitty player but if you've got a good backing band you always sound good and you can be an amazing player and if you've got a shitty backing band you're going to sound horrible um it's like having that apparatus working behind you like i do feel like there's been such a huge failure in the mainstream and the alternative media space in making any of this stuff work.
DestinyHOST
55:31
And it's, yeah, it's frustrated me a lot because sometimes, like I'm not here to simp for, you know, like Ken Martin in the DNC or for any particular politician, Chuck Schumer or Hakeem Jeffries or anybody, but like the left wing is just so, the moderate left is just so, and it's funny because people on the right will say we're not, but they'll be like, these guys are all sycophants for themselves.
DestinyHOST
55:51
They're all communists.
DestinyHOST
55:52
We're not, we're so self-critical.
DestinyHOST
56:13
The entire Republican apparatus came together and agreed to just not talk about this dude at all.
DestinyHOST
56:18
And my God, dude, if we could get like one 10th of that on the left for any of our people, but me, Meanwhile, it's like Jeffries needs to go.
DestinyHOST
56:25
Ken Martin needs to go.
DestinyHOST
56:26
Schumer needs to go.

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