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La Vie en Rose

As Democrats sort through the rubble of 2024, much of the party drama is coalescing around the race for D.N.C. chair. Will it be Rahm? Martin O’Malley? Max Rose, the millennial ex-congressman from Staten Island, makes a compelling case for… himself.

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Rose does have some ideas, and he also thinks 2024 wasn’t the “abject denunciation” of the party that many observers have described it as. Photo: Melina Mara/The Washington Post/Getty Images)
Tara Palmeri
November 26, 2024

Like virtually every other ambitious, somewhat underemployed former Democratic pol with a prescription for how to fix the party, ex-congressman Max Rose has his eyes on the D.N.C. chairmanship. Rose, 37, would certainly bring generational change. A decorated Afghanistan veteran, Rose surfed the blue wave into Congress in 2018, snagging his NY-11 seat in a district Donald Trump won by 11 points. For two years, Rose was a bona fide media obsession: a Democratic war hero whiz kid from staunchly Republican Staten Island who understood how to win with centrists and moderates.