Ex-deputy campaign manager to former President Joe Biden, Rufus Gifford, explained on Monday why there is "no saving" Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Ken Martin ahead of November's midterm elections.Gifford, who previously served as DNC finance director during former President Barack Obama's administration, warned in a Substack article that the committee is "spiraling towards irrelevance" based on its inability to raise money and push its message, largely based on Martin's unwillingness to communicate compared to his predecessors."The number of times Jim Messina or Jen O’Malley Dillon called me to help try and figure out how to fund special projects like these are in the dozens," Gifford explained in the article."And we were successful because of the relationships we had collectively built and the trust we had accumulated over the years."STATES MAY DEFY DNC PRIMARY CALENDAR AS 'NOBODY IS SCARED' OF KEN MARTIN, CNN REPORTER SAYSFormer Biden deputy campaign manager Rufus Gifford wrote an article on Substack criticizing Democratic National Committee Chairman, Ken Martin.
(Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)He added, "It seems clear that such requests or the multitude of others – and there will be literally hundreds of asks for money in the fall - could not be met with a 'yes' at this point.That is a failure and we have been seeing this coming for a year now."Though Gifford clarified that he believed Martin to be "a good man," he wrote that he never heard from the DNC head during his time with Biden in 2024, further proving that he was unable to rise to the occasion."At this point, I think there is no saving Martin’s chairmanship.
He is a good man with good intentions but simply not meeting this critical moment.The leaks coming from inside the building streaming across every media outlet say to me that the (diligent and wonderful) staff are losing or have lost faith," Gifford wrote. JOE SCARBOROUGH GOES OFF ON 'HORRIBLE' DNC CHAIR, 'CRA...