The Left is crumbling. It’s obvious to anyone with eyes.
And now the DNC ran damage control after being asked one question.
Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin tried Saturday to wave off a string of damaging reports about dysfunction inside party headquarters as outside “noise” — only to find even the hosts of MS NOW, a network hardly known for giving Democrats a hard time, unwilling to simply take his word for it.
The interview came against a backdrop that’s difficult to spin away: the DNC trails the Republican National Committee by more than $110 million in cash on hand heading into a critical midterm cycle, all while internal leaks about Martin’s leadership style keep surfacing in national outlets.
An Alleged Phone-Throwing Incident Martin Won’t Fully Address
MS NOW co-host Jacqueline Alemany pressed Martin directly on reports that he’d been the subject of an HR complaint after allegedly throwing a phone at a staffer’s desk, and that DNC employees had grown fearful of leaks and decisions made “in isolation.” Martin’s response leaned heavily on generalities rather than specifics. “Well, the reporting is not accurate, but what I would say is every day when I go into the DNC, what I see is a staff that works extremely hard,” he said. “They’re working overtime. I’m usually the first one in, the last one to leave.”
The denial runs up against reporting from two separate outlets. The New York Times cited six people familiar with the incident — none of whom witnessed it directly — describing a phone that landed on an aide’s desk during a reprimand and led to a formal HR complaint. NOTUS, in a separate account, reported the phone didn’t actually strike the staffer but left several colleagues shaken, and that Martin apologized to the aide in an HR meeting the following day.
Even A Friendly Co-Host Isn’t Buying The Full Denial
Co-anchor Eugene Daniels didn’t let Martin off easy, noting that the unflattering accounts aren’t coming from Republicans or conservative media but from within the DNC’s own ranks. “But to be fair, Mr. Chairman, some of this noise is coming from the inside, right?” Daniels asked. Martin’s answer sidestepped the question entirely, pivoting instead to a talking point about economic anxiety among voters: “You know, I don’t know, but as I travel across the country, Eugene, what I hear from the American people, they’re not focused on any of that.”
A Cash Crunch Adding Fuel To The Fire
The leadership questions are compounding a genuine financial problem. Federal Election Commission filings show the DNC ended June with $16.3 million in cash against $18.5 million in debt — including $15 million drawn from a credit line secured in part by the party’s own headquarters building — compared to the RNC’s $128.5 million in cash and zero debt. Rufus Gifford, a former Biden deputy campaign manager and Obama-era DNC finance director, pointed to the steady drip of internal leaks as proof staff confidence in Martin has eroded: “The leaks coming from inside the building streaming across every media outlet say to me that the (diligent and wonderful) staff are losing or have lost faith.”
Martin has defended his spending strategy publicly, arguing in a July Substack post that the party’s financial posture reflects investment rather than mismanagement. “But a party is not a savings account,” he wrote. “Its purpose is to build power.” Whether that argument reassures a rank-and-file DNC staff described in multiple independent reports as anxious and on edge — or Democratic donors watching a widening cash gap with Republicans just months before the midterms — remains an open question.
