REPORT: Progressive gun control activist David Hogg running for position at DNC

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From ABC News: David Hogg, gun control activist, March for our Lives co-founder and Parkland school shooting survivor, is running for vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, ABC News has learned.

“I think this role is a great way of, for one, bringing newer voices into the Democratic Party,” Hogg told ABC News. “I just want to be one of several of those voices to help represent young people and also, more than anything, make sure that we’re standing up to the consulting class that increasingly the Democratic Party is representing instead of the working class.”

The DNC offers four opportunities to serve in a vice chair capacity — three general vice chairperson roles and one vice chairperson for civic engagement and voter participation.At 24, Hogg is considerably younger than the declared candidates for DNC chair, notable after Vice President Kamala Harris’ pitched herself as a “new generation of leadership” during her presidential bid.

Last year, Hogg launched the progressive PAC ‘Leaders We Deserve’ to elect younger lawmakers. He also publicly supported Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s vice presidential bid.

The report notes that over half of young men under 30 voted for President-elect Donald Trump last month. Hogg said he believes it was simply because Democrats didn’t communicate with them effectively, and said Kamala Harris made a mistake by not doing the Joe Rogan podcast.

Hogg announced on CNN two weeks ago that he was ‘considering’ running vice-chair at the DNC.

A staunch Trump-hater, Hogg claimed, “The Democratic Party needs to open its eyes and take its fingers out of its ears. While it wasn’t a landslide, the American people still rejected us in favor of a convicted felon. I’m sick and tired of hearing party leaders say ‘they tried’ without taking any accountability. We need a new direction and new people.”

“It’s time to put our words into action and change the party from the inside. If we’re the party of the working class and everyday Americans then that should reflect our leadership and who we recruit to run for office,” he added.

Hogg’s announcement of his run for DNC vice-chair comes on the same days as a school shooting at a private Christian school in Wisconsin.

Hogg sat for an interview on ABC News Monday night:

In April, Lily Tang Williams, a Chinese immigrant who escaped communism and came to the U.S., confronted Hogg during a gun control debate at Dartmouth College. Williams delivered a scathing rebuke to Hogg over his calls for gun control.

“Can you guarantee that our government in the U.S. will never become a tyrannical government?” she asked.

When Hogg said no, he could not guarantee such a thing, Williams fired back, “Well then the debate on gun control is over! I will never give up my guns, and you should go to China to see how gun control works!”

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