
Ken Martin wins race to become chair of the Democratic National Committee
Six candidates ended up running to lead the Democratic National Committee.
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Hunter Woodall is a political editorial producer for CBS News. He covered the 2020 New Hampshire primary for The Associated Press and worked as a Kansas statehouse reporter for The Kansas City Star and the Washington correspondent for Minnesota's Star Tribune. He graduated from the University of Missouri in 2015 and has worked as a journalist in Wyoming, Kansas, Missouri and New Hampshire. While at Minnesota's Star Tribune, he covered Congress through a Minnesota lens and served as the newspaper's voice in the White House briefing room.
Six candidates ended up running to lead the Democratic National Committee.
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