Newly elected Democratic Nationwide Committee Vice Chair David Hogg has beforehand referred to as on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to be abolished and for the defunding of police.
“Defund the police not USPS,” Hogg, who first entered the nationwide highlight after surviving the 2018 Parkland, Florida, faculty capturing, mentioned in an X put up on Aug. 15, 2020.
“Abolish ICE,” Hogg mentioned in a distinct put up two weeks earlier.
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Gun violence survivor and activist David Hogg speaks on the March for our Lives rally in opposition to gun violence on the Nationwide Mall in Washington, D.C. on June 11, 2022. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/For The Washington Publish through Getty Photographs)
The posts, which have been made greater than two years after Hogg survived the Florida faculty capturing, got here as he turned more and more concerned in political activism, most notably by his staunch advocacy for stricter gun legal guidelines.
Now simply 24 years previous, Hogg took to social media early Sunday to rejoice his election to management inside the DNC.
David Hogg speaks onstage through the Quick Firm Innovation Pageant at BMCC Tribeca PAC on Sept. 17, 2024, in New York Metropolis. (Eugene Gologursky/Getty Photographs for Quick Firm)
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“I’ve simply been elected as a Vice Chair of the DNC. I’m deeply grateful to the members for his or her belief and perception in me and I don’t take it flippantly. Now it’s time to get to work,” Hogg mentioned in a put up on X, occurring to vow a “Democratic Get together that’s genuine, relatable, earns individuals’s belief, and wins once more.”
“It’s time we cease surrendering, go on offense, and take the combat to Donald Trump and each single Republican who’s gutting our rights, attacking employees, and rigging the system for the rich and well-connected,” Hogg mentioned.
However the elevation of Hogg to vice chair of the DNC additionally comes at a time of deep soul-searching for the Democratic Get together, with many analysts blaming the get together’s poor 2024 displaying on its seemingly gentle stances on crime and unlawful immigration.
David Hogg addresses the March for Our Lives rally on March 24, 2018, in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Photographs)
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However, Hogg referred to as on the get together to “rethink the way in which we have been doing issues” in his put up on X, arguing that it is important “to rid our get together of its judgmental attitudes, and do the work to win again each group we misplaced this yr, from the working class to younger individuals.”
The DNC didn’t instantly reply to a Fox Information Digital request for remark.
