State chair says Dems committed to SC, rural US as party meets in Charleston
Democratic Party leaders from across the country on Tuesday kicked off a week of meetings in Charleston, ahead of President Joe Biden’s visit Friday to the state’s largest historically Black university.
Members of the Democratic National Committee’s executive committee and the national Association of State Democratic Committees (ASDC), made up of state party leaders, are meeting this week to talk strategy and sit in on training sessions geared toward organizing and running political campaigns. Saturday’s conference of DNC leaders is the group’s first in-person meeting since S.C. native Jaime Harrison was elected DNC chairman earlier this year. Harrison lost to U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham last year, but rallied unprecedented fundraising sums during his campaign.
S.C. Democratic Party Chairman Trav Robertson said the meetings show the national party still has its eye on smaller states like South Carolina, where Republicans run much of the government.
“It shows that the Democrats are not giving up on this state,” he told the City Paper Tuesday during his drive to Charleston from Columbia. “And they’re not giving up on the rural South, or rural parts of the country.”
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