Rahm Emanuel weighs bid for DNC chair, Axios reports

Freedom Edge trilateral exercise among United States, Japan and South Korea in the East China Sea, south of the Korean peninsula and west of Japan’s main islands

(Reuters) – U.S. envoy for Japan Rahm Emanuel is considering a run for chairman of the Democratic National Committee(DNC), Axios reported on Friday, citing three people with knowledge of the matter.

The current DNC chair Jaime Harrison is not expected to seek renomination when the party holds a leadership vote early next year, Reuters reported earlier this month, citing two sources familiar with his thinking.

(Reporting by Harshita Meenaktshi in Bengaluru; Editing by Toby Chopra)