(NewsNation) — After November’s election, where Democrats lost the presidency and their majority in the Senate and House Republicans maintained their majority, Democratic voters, donors and even elected officials are clamoring for change.

While the average American may not know who the chair of the Democratic National Committee is, the role has a direct impact on their lives.

With the reelection of President-elect Donald Trump, the chair will no doubt be tasked with pushing back against his administration and many of the policies Trump will try to enact.

The chair is also critical in organizing and steering the direction of the party through the candidates the DNC supports and, subsequently, through the policies that are enacted.

The current DNC chair, Jamie Harrison, has decided not to run for the position again. There are currently four candidates running to be the new chair of the DNC.

• Ken Martin, chair, Minnesota Democratic–Farmer-Labor Party (DFL)
• Martin O’Malley, former Maryland Governor
• James Skoufis, New York State Senator
• Ben Wikler, chair, Democratic Party of Wisconsin

All four candidates gave in-depth interviews to NewsNation and were asked the same questions in an effort to better understand and compare their candidacies. You can read each Q&A by clicking on their names: Martin, O’Malley, Skoufis, Wikler.

For a party that some describe as one in disarray, there’s quite a lot of agreement and overlap amongst these four candidates in the diagnosis of what went wrong in the 2024 election and where the party needs to go.

All four readily acknowledge that........

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