WASHINGTON, D.C. (NewsNation) — Democrats, still reeling from losing the presidency, their Senate majority and remaining in the House minority, are looking to make changes within their party.

The current chair of the Democratic National Committee, Jaime Harrison, is not running for reelection. The race to replace him and elect a leader who will set the agenda and lead the party forward is underway.

NewsNation has interviewed all four of the candidates up for the job. Below is a Q&A conducted with Ben Wikler, chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, who is vying for the role. Read Q&As with the other candidates here.

The interview has been edited for clarity and length.

NewsNation: What went into your decision to run for DNC chair?

Wikler: Well, I thought about it a lot after this election. I wanted to see the data about what happened and what worked. What I saw was that Wisconsin was one of the very few states that added votes relative to what we saw for Harris, relative to what we turned out for Biden in 2020. We overperformed.

The swing [towards the GOP] was less across Wisconsin than you saw in similar counties across the country. We won our U.S. Senate race. We flipped 14 state legislative seats thanks in part to maps that we fought and fought for and finally won a Supreme Court majority that actually read our Constitution, struck down the gerrymander and ensured that Wisconsin has become a democracy.

And the impact of that work, that year-round, permanent campaign, organizing, fighting and communicating everywhere, we can see it in the election results. We're going to see it in people's lives, and I want to see it on the national stage.

If I become the DNC chair, the goal will be to unite the party around these battles. To fight them across every state, to have a battle plan for every state, for all the down-ballot and up-ballot work that we need to do, and then to win more elections at every level that wouldn’t be possible otherwise.

NewsNation: What is your message as a candidate for DNC chair?

Wikler: In the DNC election I think we have a choice about whether to go as big as we can, to meet the challenges of fights up and down the ballot. Whether we're going to unite as a national party around the work that we need to do in every state across the United States, to gear up for ‘25, ‘26, ‘27, and ‘28.

And what I bring to the table is the experience of working in one of the most hotly........

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