Orange County state Sen. James Skoufis announced Thursday he ended his campaign to be the next leader of the national Democratic party.

New York state Sen. James Skoufis dropped out of the race for DNC chair and endorsed Ken Martin, Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party chair.

The DNC held the first of four officer forums, and candidates for top leadership roles laid out their platforms and strategies for the party.

Shakir, who ran Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign, wants Democrats to focus more on working-class voters.

The Democrats who entered the DNC chair race first remain ahead in public DNC member commitments; the winner needs a majority of their 448 votes when the party meets outside DC on Feb. 1.

The strategist who managed Bernie Sanders’s presidential race says the party needs vision and conviction “to restore a deeply damaged Democratic brand.”

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Progressive strategist Faiz Shakir, who ran Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign in 2020, has announced a late bid to lead the Democratic National Committee. Citing a “lack of vision and conviction” on display within the Democratic agency as the chairmanship race takes shape,

After a long career in city, state and federal government, Martin O’Malley is on the campaign trail again, vying to lead the Democratic Party at a pivotal time.

The retired police captain and former registered Republican won the job promising to rein in crime and is now the most prominent Democratic mayor offering cooperation with Trump on his mass deportation efforts. He has also suggested he might leave the Democratic Party.

"It's not a policy vision for the governor," LeMahieu said on WISN's 'UPFRONT' which is produced in partnership with WisPolitics.com. "But a lot of the requests, in education, K-12 is way too much. He said $4 billion was almost too much for him in education, so we'll see what he puts in there."