Parkland high school shooting survivor and gun safety advocate David Hogg has double-barrel support to become the next Democratic National Committee vice chairman this weekend.
Prominent Democrats, including former vice presidential candidate Tim Walz and California Rep. Eric Swalwell, have come forward to support the 24-year-old, who quickly became an activist after the 2018 massacre at Florida’s Stoneman Douglas High School left 17 people dead.
“David Hogg represents exactly the kind of bold, dynamic and courageous leadership our party needs right now,” Walz wrote on social media earlier this month. “He has a unique ability to connect with the American people and to speak to the strengths of our party. I couldn’t be happier to support him for DNC vice chair.”
Hogg graduated from Harvard University in 2023 where he studied the history of conservative politics, according to Time.
“Liberals are organized the way that a bunch of 6-year-olds doing a group project together with a bunch of crayons are,” he told Time in 2022. “Conservatives are organized like SEAL Team Six.”
Swalwell joined Waltz in backing Hogg as the right person to mobilize young liberals and moderates.
“I’m proud to endorse David Hogg for DNC vice chair because he has proven himself as one of the most fearless and effective organizers of his generations,” he wrote online Friday.
Leaders from the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers also threw their support behind Hogg.
Unsurprisingly, the National Rifle Association — which will likely find itself in Hogg’s political crosshairs — says it doesn’t think the March for Our Lives co-founder is the key to helping Democrats defeat Republicans in upcoming elections.
“If losing elections is their goal, the DNC should take him up on it!” that pro-gun group posted on Facebook.
The DNC votes Saturday to replace outgoing chairman Jaime Harrison. Before stepping away from his post, he told The Associated Press that Democrats should have stayed with 82-year-old incumbent Joe Biden rather than making former VP Kamala Harris its nominee to run against Trump in the presidential election.
Hogg told The Hill in December that he felt it was time for Democrats to focus on the party’s younger supporters. He and March for Our Lives endorsed Harris after she entered the race in July.
