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Sweet O’Malley High

Fresh off announcing a run for D.N.C. chair, former governor of Maryland and onetime presidential candidate Martin O’Malley offers a blunt diagnosis of the party’s malaise, muses about Kamala’s future, and asks how 8 million Democratic voters simply disappeared.

Martin O'Malley
O’Malley is bailing out of a comparatively snoozy job as head of the Social Security Administration to offer himself as a turnaround artist for the deeply damaged brand that is the Democrats. Photo: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg/Getty Images
Tara Palmeri
November 30, 2024

As the tussle to lead the Democratic Party kicked off this month, Martin O’Malley was the first to enter the fray, just two weeks after the party’s national pummeling put Trump back in the White House. O’Malley, a former Maryland governor, was at one point a rising star in the party, though his reach ultimately exceeded his grasp: His 2016 presidential run ended right after he pulled less than 1 percent of the vote in Iowa.