Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg lands huge endorsements for DNC vice chair

Parkland precocious schoolhouse shooting subsister and weapon information advocator David Hogg has double-barrel enactment to go the adjacent Democratic National Committee vice chairman this weekend.

Prominent Democrats, including erstwhile vice statesmanlike campaigner Tim Walz and California Rep. Eric Swalwell, person travel guardant to enactment the 24-year-old, who rapidly became an activistic aft the 2018 massacre astatine Florida’s Stoneman Douglas High School left 17 radical dead.

“David Hogg represents precisely the benignant of bold, dynamic and courageous enactment our enactment needs close now,” Walz wrote connected societal media earlier this month. “He has a unsocial quality to link with the American radical and to talk to the strengths of our party. I couldn’t beryllium happier to enactment him for DNC vice chair.”

Hogg graduated from Harvard University successful 2023 wherever helium studied the history of blimpish politics, according to Time.

“Liberals are organized the mode that a clump of 6-year-olds doing a radical task unneurotic with a clump of crayons are,” helium told Time successful 2022. “Conservatives are organized similar SEAL Team Six.”

Swalwell joined Waltz successful backing Hogg arsenic the close idiosyncratic to mobilize young liberals and moderates.

“I’m arrogant to endorse David Hogg for DNC vice chair due to the fact that helium has proven himself arsenic 1 of the astir fearless and effectual organizers of his generations,” helium wrote online Friday.

Leaders from the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers besides threw their enactment down Hogg.

Unsurprisingly, the National Rifle Association — which volition apt find itself successful Hogg’s governmental crosshairs — says it doesn’t deliberation the March for Our Lives co-founder is the cardinal to helping Democrats decision Republicans successful upcoming elections.

“If losing elections is their goal, the DNC should instrumentality him up connected it!” that pro-gun radical posted connected Facebook.

The DNC votes Saturday to regenerate outgoing president Jaime Harrison. Before stepping distant from his post, helium told The Associated Press that Democrats should person stayed with 82-year-old incumbent Joe Biden alternatively than making erstwhile VP Kamala Harris its nominee to tally against Trump successful the statesmanlike election.

Hogg told The Hill successful December that helium felt it was clip for Democrats to absorption connected the party’s younger supporters. He and March for Our Lives endorsed Harris aft she entered the contention successful July.