Leaders that we deserve, a political organization led by Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Shooting Shooting Shooting Sootches and Vice President of the National Committee, David Hogg, announced Wednesday that he will spend $ 20 million to help the younger leaders, including the main challenges to house the democrats who are in security seats.
“The first most important thing here is to understand that it is not necessarily only with the old and the new. I would say that it comes out with the ineffective and with the effective. That is what we are doing here,” said Hogg, 25, Jay O’Brien from ABC News on Wednesday afternoon. “Anyone who has eyes can see that we have an approval of 27% with our base and we need a dramatic change.”
The movement puts Hogg, a member of Party leadership As one of its vice presidents, in disagreement with the establishment of the party and other democratic leaders, who generally avoid supporting the challengers to democratic headlines.
But it occurs as democratic aligned voters Express discontent With the way in which the Democratic Party is responding to the second Trump administration, and as some within the party ask for a new generation of leadership and representation in Congress in the midst of dismay with some older chamber and Senate Democrats.
“While [President Donald] Trump creates new existential crises every day, too many elected leaders in the Democratic Party are not willing or cannot comply with the moment, “he added in a previous statement.
David Hogg speaks on stage during the Fast Company Innovation Festival 2024 in BMCC Tribeca Pac on September 17, 2024 in New York City.
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“We need a stronger Democratic party that is ready to defend itself,” he added. “Part of making reality is to replace ineffective members and asleep with the Democrats who have energy, passion and vision to fulfill this moment with the urgency that our country deserves.”
Some Democrats have already announced that they will challenge the members of the House of Representatives in the primary of the Congress of 2026. The researcher and the personality of the social networks Kat Abughazaleh has announced that a main challenge is increasing for the representative of 14 periods Jan Schakowsky, D -ill. Schakowsky has not said if it will apply for re -election.
“This cycle, we are focused on the seats of the house in particular. Those are the types of seats in which we are focused because we want to be as effective as possible to help give these young people an opportunity,” Hogg told ABC News.
The political activist and vice president of the National Democratic Committee, David Hogg, speaks with ABC News, April 16, 2025.
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The announcement of the leaders we deserve, a Hogg group co -founded in 2023 and which he serves as presidentHe did not appoint any specific candidate that the group plans to support. The group said that it will not challenge the members of “First Line” that face harsh re -election battles against Republicans or “major Democratic leaders such as Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi” who said they have been facing Trump and Republicans successfully.
The announcement was First reported For the New York Times.
In a statement to ABC News, the president of the National Democratic Committee, Ken Martin, thanked Hogg for his work for the party, but reiterated the position of the DNC not to take parts in the primary elections.
The newly elected president of the National Democratic Committee, Ken Martin, speaks after winning the vote at the winter meeting of the National Democratic Committee in National Harbor, Maryland, February 1, 2025.
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“David Hogg is a passionate defender and we are grateful for his service to the Democratic Party, either in his role as Vice President of DNC or an external capacity,” Martin wrote. “To ensure that we are as effective as possible to choose the Democrats in charge, it is the position of long DNC that the primary voters, not the National Party, determine their democratic candidates for the general elections.”
According to the DNC, the party does not intervene in the primaries to allow voters to express their views and maintain relationships with the candidates. The DNC also shared that HOGG was the only officer of the party that did not sign a “neutrality policy” that requires those officials do not take any action that can question the impartiality of their part.
The party said it will resolve the next un specified steps with HOGG and the party committees.
Hogg was chosen as one of the Vice Presidents of the DNC in the February elections of the party.
