Anderson Clayton Will Continue

 

The best NCDemParty Chair we've seen in maybe decades, AppState grad Anderson Clayton, who took the reins of the NCDP two years ago, has just announced that she's running for another term.

She has a website up, from which I borrow:

Anderson Clayton is an organizer by trade, a proud rural North Carolinian, and the current Chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party. After winning election (and becoming the youngest state party chair in the country) in 2023, she has spent the last two years working to build a better, more responsive NC Democratic Party.

Under Anderson’s tenure, the NCDP has invested in year-round, local organizing; recruiting and supporting candidates who understand that good politicians are good public servants first; and building the infrastructure to win back Democratic power in NC within the next decade.

Anderson has been unstoppable -- quite literally, in motion all the time, visiting all the far-flung county parties had have struggled to redefine themselves in this new dark age, duplicating the Howard Dean model of carrying the banner of the Democratic Party to every red corner. After she took the reins, Clayton immediately became a media presence whose power for communicating far exceeds anything we're remotely used to or could have imagined. She's quick-witted, always prepared, with a common touch and a country accent that puts me in mind of Nashville at its most honest. This line in her announcement letter also caught my attention and represents the heaviest lifting a state party chair has to do:

North Carolina Democrats believe in ceding no ground to the Republican Party, and I promise that we will continue to aggressively recruit candidates to contest every single race.

No one can touch her. No one will run against her. We've got another two super-charged years ahead of us with Anderson at the helm.