Hamza Adam 
Just months after becoming the first member of Gen Z to serve as vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, David Hogg is already facing turbulence – and fighting to hold onto his job.
Hogg, who ignited an internal firestorm when he announced a new multimillion-dollar campaign targeting Democratic incumbents, is now the subject of a formal challenge seeking to overturn his Feb. 1 election, according to a report in Semafor.
In a complaint obtained by the outlet, Kalyn Free, a Native American attorney and activist, claimed that Hogg’s “fatally flawed election” violated the DNC Charter and “discriminated against three women of color” – herself included.
She’s calling for the results to be tossed and for the party to order “two new vice chair elections.”
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“By aggregating votes across ballots and failing to distinguish between gender categories in a meaningful way, the DNC’s process violated its own Charter and Bylaws, undermining both fairness and gender diversity,” Free, a citizen of the Choctaw Nation, argued in her challenge, as reported by Semafor.
The February election saw five finalists emerge after several rounds of voting: Malcolm Kenyatta, Hogg, Free, and two other women. Kenyatta and Hogg ultimately won the two vice chair positions.
Members of the DNC’s credentials committee were informed yesterday that they would take up the challenge in a virtual meeting on May 12, the report said.
Hogg’s legal team hit back against the allegations earlier this month as an “inappropriate” attempt to try to revise the rules “or decisions after the fact through a credentials challenge,” according to Semafor. They say the election was “conducted in compliance with the rules in place at the time.”