{"id":3946,"date":"2026-07-26T13:40:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T13:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3946"},"modified":"2026-07-26T13:40:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T13:40:54","slug":"democrats-are-sabotaging-the-midterms-and-this-man-is-to-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3946","title":{"rendered":"Democrats are sabotaging the midterms \u2014and this man is to blame"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President Donald Trump and his Republican Party are in an increasingly weak position as they approach the 2026 midterm elections \u2014 and yet Democrats are sabotaging themselves due to the reported incompetence of the Democratic National Committee chairman.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3944\">The disturbing truth behind Trump\u2019s 7-country bombing campaign<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the center is Ken Martin, the 53-year-old party chairman, who has found himself increasingly isolated, gripped by the fear that he will lose his job and relying on a vanishingly small circle of people he trusts, according to interviews with more than two dozen Democrats, including current and former D.N.C. officials and members,\u201d reported The New York Times\u2019 Shane Goldmacher and Reid J. Epstein on Sunday. \u201cMost of them spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the party\u2019s troubled state of affairs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Goldmacher and Epstein added, \u201cMr. Martin\u2019s fraying nerves are showing. In a pique of frustration in early July, he threw his phone at the desk of a junior aide while upbraiding the person. The phone-tossing incident resulted in a formal complaint to the D.N.C.\u2019s human resources department.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Times added that the alleged phone-throwing episode had tangible fallout, with D.N.C. human resources officials meeting with Martin about the incident. Yet that was far from Martin\u2019s only problem during his brief tenure in charge of the organization. He has been slammed for delaying the release of an autopsy on the 2024 presidential election, and then releasing an incomplete and annotated version. He has made very few media appearances. Staffers are widely reported as being demoralized, and the organization is full of leaks. Martin reportedly is in constant fear of being fired.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps worst of all, though, the D.N.C. is struggling to raise money.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNone of the party\u2019s problems are more acute than money,\u201d the Times reported. \u201cFor more than a decade, the D.N.C. has transferred millions of dollars every election to sister committees responsible for winning the House and Senate. But the national party is now so short on cash \u2014 even after taking out a $15 million loan last year \u2014 that officials have privately conveyed to congressional leadership that there will be no such transfers in 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3943\">The military\u2019s new mandatory test could backfire \u2014 big time<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By contrast, Republicans \u2014 even though they are struggling in polls \u2014 are far exceeding Democrats in fundraising.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew financial reports released this week revealed the depth of the D.N.C.\u2019s financial hole,\u201d the Times reported. \u201cThe party is $2 million in debt, while the Republican National Committee has $128.5 million in cash on hand. The party that holds the White House almost always raises more money into its party coffers, but this year\u2019s chasm is extraordinarily large.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to AlterNet in June, various sources also expressed alarm at Martin\u2019s leadership of the Democratic Party. One anonymous source, a longtime member of the DNC Women\u2019s Caucus, told AlterNet that Martin has done nothing to protect mail-in voting from Trump\u2019s reported attempts to quash it. He has also refused to move away from electronic voting and toward paper receipts, which would be harder for Trump and other Republicans to tamper with.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this shortcoming, the party\u2019s \u201cautopsy\u201d in May acknowledged that &#8220;any assessment of the state of technology in the Democratic party would be incomplete without an acknowledgement that comprehensive data warehouses like Phoenix represent an irresistible target for hackers and other bad actors seeking to undermine the integrity of the modern political process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3941\">Trump slammed for waging \u2018narcissistic crusade\u2019 over election loss while remaining silent on surging pandemic<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump and his Republican Party are in an increasingly weak position as they approach the 2026 midterm elections \u2014 and yet Democrats are sabotaging themselves due to the reported incompetence of the Democratic National Committee chairman.\u201cAt the center is Ken Martin, the 53-year-old &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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