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The Pritzker Prize

With Democrats leaderless, some in the party are looking to the states, where ambitious governors often find their “laboratories of democracy” make great soapboxes, too. Illinois’ J.B. Pritzker, an all-but-certain presidential candidate in 2028, is one of them.

J.B. Pritzker
After laying low during the first week of Trump 2.0, as many Democrats were, Pritzker suddenly launched an all-out media blitz last week attacking the president.
Peter Hamby
February 4, 2025

Members of the Democratic National Committee gathered in Washington over the weekend to elect a new chairman, Ken Martin, the little-known, 51-year-old leader of Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, a white guy with a nice haircut and an accent straight out of the latest season of Fargo. The chairman’s race was mostly a behind-the-scenes affair obsessed over by party activists and journalists, but ignored by the general public and the vast majority of exhausted Democratic voters. The election jockeying was peak inside-baseball, with each candidate rolling out endorsements from this D.N.C. member or that. Martin, a known commodity inside the D.N.C., won a dominant majority of the party’s nearly 450 members, easily dispatching his next-strongest opponent, Wisconsin Democratic Party chairman Ben Wikler.