Neither Ellison nor Perez should be chair. It should be Jason Kander (or someone like him).

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25. Ellison inherited one of the safest seats in the country

Sabo had it for 26 years and Fraser had it for 13 years. It has gone solidly Democratic since 1963

Congressman Martin Sabo, DFL retired after 26 years in the House. Keith Ellison, also a DFLer, replaced him. Although Ellison was endorsed by the DFL convention, four non-endorsed candidates ran strong campaigns against him in the DFL primary: Gail Dorfman, Mike Erlandson, Ember Reichgott Junge, and Jack Nelson Pallmeyer. Ellison won the primary with 41% of the vote. In the general election, he won with 56% of the vote against Jay Pond of the Green Party, Tammy Lee of the Independence Party and Alan Fine of the Republican Party. Ellison is the first Muslim member of the U.S. Congress.

I find much of what he says to be pedestrian at best but the clearest indication that he doesn't have a good handle on a national position is that he ran as a surrogate and thinks that if he gets 51% of the vote he wins, he doesn't because it isn't an ideological position its a process position and anyone, including Perez or Ellison that runs as a factional and not as a consensus candidate for the national chair has a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of the position.