![]() ![]() ![]() Oscars fiascors Eddy Chen/ABC via Getty Images For more newsletters, check out our newsletters page. Buttigieg dropped out right before voting began but was widely seen as the third-place candidate and ran a race that cemented his status among senior Democrats as a new "rock star" in the party. Another winner of the race: Pete Buttigieg, the charismatic young mayor of South Bend, Indiana.The candidates took few real hits, if any, at each other, and on Monday Ellison made Perez his guest at President Trump's speech to Congress on Tuesday night. The infighting certainly could have been worse.(Ellison had praised Louis Farrakhan in his 20s, but had since apologized.) Perez's supporters dismissed the idea that the "smear campaign" factored into their decision. Many progressives were particularly aggrieved by a last-minute campaign to attack Ellison as harboring anti-Israel or anti-Jewish sentiment.In a bid for unity, Perez swiftly suspended the rules and made Ellison his "deputy" chair. Still, some of the Ellison/Sanders supporters were furious at the outcome.One of Obama's most progressive Cabinet officials, Perez also echoed Ellison's demand for a stronger grassroots party infrastructure - muting clear ideological or practical stakes from the race. But Perez enjoyed the active lobbying of President Barack Obama's allies, who retain particularly strong pull among the (relatively obscure) 447 voting members of the DNC.Dozens of congressional Democrats (including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer) and state party chairs backed Ellison's bid, citing the need for unity after the party's divisive 2016 presidential primary. Keith Ellison (D-MN), champion of Bernie Sanders's wing of the party. Perez's win was a loss for backers of Rep.After a four-month campaign, two ballots of voting, and more than a dozen candidate forums, the Democratic National Committee narrowly elected former Obama Labor Secretary Tom Perez as its new chair on Saturday in Atlanta. The Democratic Party has a new leader.WHY ARE WE YELLING Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The wobbly progressivism of the Oscars ceremony. Sign up for the Vox Sentences newsletter, delivered straight to your inbox Monday through Friday, or view the Vox Sentences archive for past editions. Vox Sentences is your daily digest for what's happening in the world, curated by Dara Lind and Dylan Matthews. ![]()
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