David Hogg quits DNC after party votes to redo his election to vice chair, citing ‘fundamental disagreement’ 

Former Democratic National Committee Vice Chair David Hogg will not run for re-election after the party voted to oust him from the role. 

“I came into this role to play a positive role in creating the change our party needs,” Hogg told the New York Times on Wednesday. “It is clear that there is a fundamental disagreement about the role of a Vice Chair — and it’s OK to have disagreements.”

“What isn’t OK is allowing this to remain our focus when there is so much more we need to be focused on,” the 25-year-old Democratic activist continued. “Ultimately, I have decided to not run in this upcoming election so the party can focus on what really matters.”

Hogg’s decision to quit the DNC comes on the same day members voted to remove him and Pennsylvania state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta from their national party posts, citing procedural issues related to their February elections. 

Hogg would’ve been able to vie for the post again, but opted not to amid intense criticism from some Democrats over his plans to spend $20 million to take down long-serving Dem House lawmakers in primaries.

“I don’t think you intended this, but you essentially destroyed any chance I have to show the leadership that I need to,” DNC Chairman Ken Martin recently vented in a call with Hogg and other Dems that was leaked to Politico this week. “So it’s really frustrating.”

“No one knows who the hell I am, right?” Martin, sounding on the verge of tears, went on. 

Hogg defended his effort to fund primary challenges against incumbent Democrats after announcing his exit from the DNC in a lengthy X thread.

“After seeing a serious lack of vision from Democratic leaders, too many of them asleep at the wheel, and Democrats dying in office that have helped to hand Republicans an expanded majority, it became clear that Leaders We Deserve had to start primarying incumbents and directly challenging the culture of seniority politics that brought our party to this place to help get our party into fighting shape again,” Hogg wrote. 

“I need to do this work with Leaders We Deserve, and it is going to remain my number one mission to build the strongest party possible,” he added.

Hogg went to thank “everyone who has supported me” during his short-lived tenure at the DNC.

“I have nothing but admiration and respect for my fellow officers,” he wrote. “Even though we have disagreements, we all are here to build the strongest party possible.”

Hogg argued that the Democratic Party mustn’t be “defined by not being the less bad of two options in voters’ eyes.”

“That change can only come through a full embrace of Democracy not only to defeat Republicans but to elect new Democrats to show voters how we are changing and regain their trust by listening to them, doing all we can to give them the best representation possible. Leaders We Deserve exists to do just that.”