Ken Martin was elected the new chairman of the Democratic National Committee over the weekend, defeating Wisconsin Democratic Party chair Ben Wikler and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley. Martin is perhaps best known for leading the state party in Minnesota.

OXON HILL, Md. — Democrats on Saturday elected Ken Martin, the party leader in Minnesota, as the national chair, turning to a low-profile Midwestern political operative to coordinate their resistance to Donald Trump’s presidency.

But it was another side of Martin — what one DNC member, granted anonymity to speak candidly, called his ability to be a “knife-fighter” — that Democrats and their new chair himself on Saturday appeared to embrace.