After nearly three years running the Hamilton County Democratic Party, Rachel Campbell has announced her campaign for Tennessee Democratic Party chair. Campbell is also the current vice chair of the state party and has been an executive committee member of the state party since 2018.
“I have really enjoyed building the Hamilton County Democratic Party up to the political organization it is now,” Campbell said by phone. “I’d like to take what I’ve done here and translate that into statewide successes.”
Campbell said it was unfortunate that Democrats didn’t pick up seats in the Tennessee General Assembly or the White House in the general election. She said Democrats did not talk enough about kitchen table issues.
“I think we’ve made some errors in just assuming that people still believed in our message,” Campbell said. “I think we forgot what people care about is feeding their families, giving them good health care, having a roof over their heads.”