DNC Chair Ken Martin on the midterms, uncalled races
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[0:00] Welcome back to the takeout. Welcome to
[0:01] the conversation corner. I want to bring
[0:02] in the chair of the Democratic National
[0:04] Committee, Ken Martin. Ken, you must
[0:05] feel, I believe, somewhat vindicated.
[0:08] And I'll explain to my audience what I
[0:09] mean. You are a lower key party
[0:12] chairman. You didn't do a lot of
[0:13] television. You didn't do a lot of
[0:15] announcing, speechifying. You basically
[0:17] said, "Watch what I do, investing here
[0:19] and there, retooling the way the DNC
[0:22] operates." How much credit does the DNC
[0:24] deserve for what happened on Tuesday?
[0:26] >> Well, look, I've said all along, I'm not
[0:27] in this for credit. The only thing I
[0:29] care about is winning. And we just had
[0:30] the most historic election in the
[0:32] history of the Democratic Party. In the
[0:34] 198,
[0:36] there has been no chair that had a
[0:38] bigger midterm election. And I'm proud
[0:39] of that. I'm proud of that because what
[0:41] I said at the very outset is we needed
[0:43] to actually invest early and often, push
[0:45] money out to actually have a 50-state
[0:48] strategy. You know who the record holder
[0:50] before me was in terms of the most
[0:51] successful DNC chair? Howard Dean. And
[0:54] the through line