Democratic Chair in MAGA-Friendly Palm Beach Resigns in Protest

The chair of the Democratic Party in deep-red Palm Beach County, Florida, announced she was resigning Wednesday after claiming she was the victim of “vicious personal attacks” from members of her own party.

Mindy Koch said she and her staff were inundated with nasty comments from a “small minority” of Democratic Executive Committee members, something she described as akin to “MAGA tactics” used by Donald Trump, himself a Palm Beach resident.

The resignation comes just weeks after Koch was reinstated to the post by the state’s Democratic party. That alone wasn’t enough to keep Koch on board, however, and she chose to instead go out with a bang in a letter to the statewide party chair—and failed 2022 governor candidate—Nikki Fried.

Read more at The Daily Beast.