Atlanta's Democratic Mayor Andre Dickens launched a scathing attack on the Democratic National Committee's leadership Thursday, accusing party leaders of turning their backs on Black voters and the South after the DNC excluded the city from its shortlist to host the 2028 presidential convention. "The DNC continues to make the wrong choices," Dickens wrote in a scathing letter obtained by Fox News Digital, singling out DNC Chairman Ken Martin after party officials narrowed their convention search to Boston, Denver and Philadelphia.Dickens’ rebuke echoes an argument other Southern Democrats have pressed on the national party in recent months: that Democrats cannot afford to take the South — and particularly its Black voters — for granted heading into 2028.South Carolina Democratic Party Chair Christale Spain declared last month, amid debate over the party’s presidential primary calendar, that "the South is not the past, it is the future," while Democratic chairs from five other Southern states previously warned the DNC against sending Black voters the message that their loyalty is "taken for granted.""They are afraid to leave their comfort zone and blind to the fact that the South is the answer.
They are abandoning Atlanta, abandoning the South, and once again abandoning Black voters," Dickens wrote in his letter."Atlanta has not hosted a convention in nearly 40 years.
One party has chosen the South to host their convention, and the other has chosen the same region over and over again.This isn’t by accident.
It’s an intentional choice."JASMINE CROCKETT WARNS DEMOCRATS ARE TOO FOCUSED ON WHITE VOTERS, IGNORING BLACK VOTERSAtlanta Democrat Mayor Andre Dickens participated in a Sunday book tour event with California Democrat Gov.Gavin Newsom on Sunday in Atlanta.
(Paras Griffin/Getty Images)The DNC declined to comment specifically on Dickens’ letter when reached by Fox News, but pointed to the party’s broader efforts in the South and provided a state...