Kelly Ward, who served as the executive director for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) for the last four years, will head President Obama's and former Attorney General Eric Holder Eric Himpton HolderObama political arm to merge with Holder-run group Barack, Michelle Obama expected to refrain from endorsing in 2020 Dem primary: report Ocasio-Cortez to be first guest on new Desus and Mero show MORE’s redistricting project, according to a Wednesday report from Politico.

Ward will start as the interim director of the newly established National Democratic Redistricting Committee as the organization prepares for upcoming elections. The redistricting itself will reportedly occur in 2021, after the 2020 Census.

Ward told Politico that the recent presidential election has helped Democrats come to terms with the importance of these congressional races as it retools following President-elect Donald Trump Donald John TrumpHouse committee believes it has evidence Trump requested putting ally in charge of Cohen probe: report Vietnamese airline takes steps to open flights to US on sidelines of Trump-Kim summit Manafort's attorneys say he should get less than 10 years in prison MORE’s win.

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“It’s because people realize that the time is now, Democrats need to build up from the states, and we also need to take the rigged power out of the hands of the Republicans,” she said.

“They have spent years constructing the system so it works in their favor. Until we can undo that, we will be limited in our ability to really fix the system overall.”