David Hogg’s time in the political limelight has mostly revolved around nothing more than his having been a student at Parkland and him parroting the media’s preferred line about firearms.
He’s not done anything else of note, but they still adore him for just those reasons. Hell, it’s the only reason he got into Harvard and everyone knows it since he’d already been rejected by state schools.
Hogg’s PAC tried to get a number of new Democrats elected to Congress, with pretty much no success. Exactly one candidate won in anything remotely like a contested race and they didn’t even talk about gun control, which is the issue Hogg is best known for.
Now, he’s considering taking that keen political insight and making a run for DNC vice chairman.
So far there are two officially announced candidates for party chair: Social Security Administrator and former Maryland Gov. MARTIN O’MALLEY and Minnesota DFL Chair KEN MARTIN. Others are potentially waiting in the wings: Ambassador to Japan RAHM EMANUEL, Wisconsin Dems Chair BEN WIKLER, strategist CHUCK ROCHA and former Rep. MAX ROSE, to name a few.
Here’s one more rising young Democrat whom Playbook has learned is considering a run: Michigan state Sen. MALLORY McMORROW, who went viral two years ago after responding to a Republican who accused her of being a “groomer” in a fundraising email and had a prime time role at this year’s Democratic convention.
“If enough people ask, I’m leaving myself open to all kinds of opportunities,” she told Playbook.
We’ve also learned DAVID HOGG, the Gen-Z gun rights activist who now runs a PAC that recruits young people to run for office, is a potential candidate for vice chair; he told us he is “seriously considering” a run. (Longtime DNC member JAMES ZOGBY is already in that race, Holly Otterbein reports.)
That’s just too glorious not to hope for.
Hogg’s entire repertoire of political insight revolves not around original ideas but in simply saying things other people said before that he can repeat and try to sound smart. Yeah, he graduated from Harvard, but as we know how he got in, we have to recognize that the school probably isn’t all its reputation suggests.
If he were to make a run for vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee, it would just be more of the same.
Realistically, though, I do have to say that if he does run, he’s making the smarter decision to run for vice chair rather than anything else. If the DNC does decide to trend younger, as the article is actually suggesting, then Hogg would provide a younger counterpoint to Zogby in a race that isn’t as attractive to a lot of folks as the chair might be.
As it stands, he has absolutely no real experience, so a vice chairmanship is about as high as he should probably reach.
Not that he’ll win.
As we saw earlier this month, he doesn’t have a track record of picking winners. When all but one of your winners were in heavily blue districts that weren’t really in play, no one is going to look to you to lead them in tightly contested races. Plus, while only Zoby is in the race now, I suspect others will throw their hat in the ring as well, particularly folks with more experience and a better track record than Hogg.
Still, if he does win, can we at least pretend there’s nothing non-partisan about gun control?
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