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December 6, 2024
The strategist who helped Bernie Sanders win the Latino vote took himself out of the race for DNC chair—but he’s still got lots of ideas.
Chuck Rocha appears on CBS News on November 5, 2024.
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Chuck Rocha, the outspoken political strategist who helped Bernie Sanders win strong support from Latino voters for Sanders’s 2020 presidential bid, and who more recently has emerged as an important voice in debates about how Democrats should address the 2024 election debacle, won’t be joining the crowded race for chair of the Democratic National Committee. Blunt as always, Rocha announced this week, “I’m not running for DNC chairman because, after meeting with former chairmen (to discuss what the primary focus of the committee’s work). I have no interest in being a full-time fundraiser for the party. I’m still committed to fixing and rebuild our party, but I’ll do it without being the chairman.”
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