Headline Roundup • February 26th, 2017
Perez Elected as DNC Chair
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President Donald Trump slammed both the Democratic National Committee and The New York Times in a pair of early morning tweets Sunday.
Trump tweeted that the race for Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairman was “rigged.”
Christian Science Monitor
The Democratic Party’s 447 National Committee members elected former Obama labor secretary Tom Perez to be their new party chair on Saturday, in an unusually contentious race for what amounts to the top job for a party in transition.
Former labor secretary Thomas Perez was elected the first Latino chair of the Democratic National Committee on Saturday, narrowly defeating Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) at the end of a contentious battle over the fate of the beleaguered party in the age of President Trump.
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