‘David Hogg Has to Decide’: Irate Democrats Want Hogg to End His Primary Gambit — Or They Want Him Gone

DNC leadership is planning to expand its non-endorsement policy to all elections. Members will hear from the chair, Ken Martin, on Thursday afternoon, as many remain furious with vice chair David Hogg’s plan to support primary challenges.

David Hogg

Parkland survivor and activist David Hogg speaks to the crowd during in the second March for Our Lives rally in support of gun control. Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP

A week after Democratic National Committee vice chair David Hogg unveiled a controversial plan to back primary challenges to longtime party incumbents, anger at the activist-turned-Democratic leader is only intensifying among party officials.

These Democratic critics say their fury at Hogg has grown amid what they see as his ill-conceived and insufficient efforts to make amends for his planned primary campaign — a campaign that, they say, threatens the DNC’s neutrality and its capacity to fight back against President Donald Trump.

Some Democrats have even said the DNC should consider changing its rules to force Hogg to either abandon the campaign or resign as vice chair.