Candidates for Democratic National Committee leadership posts largely embraced President Joe Biden’s warnings of an oligarchy taking shape in America during a series of forums Thursday in Detroit that ran nearly eight hours.

The strategist who managed Bernie Sanders’s presidential race says the party needs vision and conviction “to restore a deeply damaged Democratic brand.”

Progressive strategist Faiz Shakir, who ran Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign in 2020, has announced a late bid to lead the Democratic National Committee. Citing a “lack of vision and conviction” on display within the Democratic agency as the chairmanship race takes shape,