“We’re bringing that black and brown coalition together, y’all,” said South Carolina Democratic Party chairman Jaime Harrison Friday morning during a Black History Month breakfast event where he reiterated his endorsement of Perez. The next DNC chairman will take over a party financially drained by the 2016 election but cheered by protests galvanized on a near-daily basis by an unpopular Republican president. Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) is in the running to be the next chairman of the Democratic National Committee. On policy and on their prescriptions for the party, Perez and Ellison have few substantive differences. That assessment was echoed by Buttigieg’s highest-profile supporter — former presidential candidate and DNC chairman Howard Dean.

Source: Washington Post February 25, 2017 01:08 UTC