Polis Student Committee member Chloe Decker (PPS ’25) asserts that the North Carolina Democratic Party is “celebrating fresh starts” as seen in the Party’s election of Anderson Clayton, the youngest state Democratic Party Chair in the country at 25 years old.
Decker argues that Clayton’s “own background of success in rural organizing” will prevent the Democratic Party to continue to label rural communities “as unreachable and unwilling to vote for their best interests.” This lack of interest, Decker argues, has “allowed for the GOP to tighten their chokehold without facing much resistance almost anywhere outside of North Carolina’s most urban centers.”
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