The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is part of the United States Democratic Party. The committee coordinates strategy to support Democratic Party candidates throughout the country for local,state,and national office,as well as works to establish a "party brand". It organizes the Democratic National Convention held every four years to nominate a candidate for President of the United States and to formulate the party platform. While it provides support for party candidates,it does not have direct authority over elected officials. When a Democrat is president,the White House controls the Committee. According to Boris Heersink,"political scientists have traditionally described the parties’national committees as inconsequential but impartial service providers."
In American politics,a superdelegate is a delegate to a presidential nominating convention who is seated automatically.
Donna Lease Brazile is an American political strategist,campaign manager and political analyst who served twice as acting Chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). She is currently an ABC News contributor,and was previously a Fox News contributor until her resignation in May 2021. Brazile was also previously a CNN contributor,but resigned in October 2016,after WikiLeaks revealed that she shared two debate questions with Hillary Clinton's campaign during the 2016 United States presidential election.
Bob Mulholland is a political operative in the California Democratic Party and a member of the Democratic National Committee for California.
The 2016 Democratic National Convention was a presidential nominating convention,held at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania,from July 25 to 28,2016. The convention gathered delegates of the Democratic Party,the majority of them elected through a preceding series of primaries and caucuses,to nominate a candidate for president and vice president in the 2016 United States presidential election. Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was chosen as the party's nominee for president by a 54% majority of delegates present at the convention roll call securing it over primary rival Senator Bernie Sanders,who received 46% of votes from delegates,and becoming the first female candidate to be formally nominated for president by a major political party in the United States. Her running mate,Senator Tim Kaine from Virginia,was confirmed by delegates as the party's nominee for vice president by acclamation.
Presidential primaries and caucuses were organized by the Democratic Party to select the 4,051 delegates to the 2016 Democratic National Convention held July 25–28 and determine the nominee for president in the 2016 United States presidential election. The elections took place within all fifty U.S. states,the District of Columbia,five U.S. territories,and Democrats Abroad and occurred between February 1 and June 14,2016.
Eric Carl Bauman is an American political operative who was,until 2018,the chair of the California Democratic Party. Previously the vice chair of the state party (2009–2017) and chair of the Los Angeles Democratic Party (2000–2017),he is known for his influence in Los Angeles County Democratic politics. He announced his resignation as head of the California Democratic Party on November 29,2018,following sexual misconduct allegations.
A total of ten debates occurred among candidates in the campaign for the Democratic Party's nomination for the president of the United States in the 2016 presidential election.
The Hillary Victory Fund was a joint fundraising committee for Hillary for America,the Democratic National Committee (DNC),and 33 state Democratic committees. As of May 2016,the Fund had raised $61 million in donations.
The 2016 Democratic National Committee email leak is a collection of Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails stolen by one or more hackers operating under the pseudonym "Guccifer 2.0" who are alleged to be Russian intelligence agency hackers,according to indictments carried out by the Mueller investigation. These emails were subsequently leaked by DCLeaks in June and July 2016 and by WikiLeaks on July 22,2016,just before the 2016 Democratic National Convention. This collection included 19,252 emails and 8,034 attachments from the DNC,the governing body of the United States' Democratic Party. The leak includes emails from seven key DNC staff members,and date from January 2015 to May 2016. On November 6,2016,WikiLeaks released a second batch of DNC emails,adding 8,263 emails to its collection. The emails and documents showed that the Democratic Party's national committee favored Clinton over her rival Bernie Sanders in the primaries. These releases caused significant harm to the Clinton campaign,and have been cited as a potential contributing factor to her loss in the general election against Donald Trump.
The 2017 Democratic National Committee chairmanship election was held on February 25,2017,at the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel in Atlanta to determine the next chairperson of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). It was the first contested DNC chair election since 1985.
Jaime R. Harrison is an American attorney and politician who is the chair of the Democratic National Committee. He previously served as the chair of the South Carolina Democratic Party from 2013 to 2017. Harrison unsuccessfully ran against incumbent senator Lindsey Graham for the South Carolina U.S. Senate seat in the 2020 election.
Presidential primaries and caucuses were organized by the Democratic Party to select the 3,979 pledged delegates to the 2020 Democratic National Convention held on August 17–20 to determine the party's nominee for president in the 2020 United States presidential election. The elections took place in all 50 U.S. states,the District of Columbia,five U.S. territories,and through Democrats Abroad,and occurred between February 3 and August 11.
Debates took place among candidates in the campaign for the Democratic Party's nomination for the president of the United States in the 2020 presidential election.
The 2020 presidential campaign of Tulsi Gabbard,the U.S. representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district,began on January 11,2019. In January 2020,she was polling at about 1 to 2 percent. Had she won,she would have become the first female,Hindu,and Samoan president in American history,and the youngest person to ever hold the office. She made reducing military activity abroad a central message of her campaign.
Rusty Hicks is an American labor union activist and attorney serving as chair of the California Democratic Party. Hicks won the June 4,2019,chairmanship election after the resignation of Eric C. Bauman.
Presidential primaries and caucuses are being organized by the Democratic Party to select the delegates to the 2024 Democratic National Convention,to determine the party's nominee for president in the 2024 United States presidential election. The elections will take place in all 50 U.S. states,the District of Columbia,five U.S. territories,and Democrats Abroad,and will be held between February and June that year. Incumbent President Joe Biden is running for re-election with Vice President Kamala Harris as his running mate. Biden maintains a significant lead in polls,and no incumbent president in modern history has lost renomination.
