Former Democratic National Committee (DNC) Vice Chair David Hogg said on Wednesday that he is willing to work with the committee despite his June departure, which he characterized as a “double standard.”  

“There’s obviously disagreements that we have at the end of the day, but I think that we all still have good relationships,” Hogg told The Hill’s Julia Manchester at the Hill Nation Summit. “I still have, you know, enormous respect for all my fellow vice chairs, the other officers of the DNC.”

The progressive activist, who called for primary challenges against Democratic incumbents with the help of his leadership PAC Leaders We Deserve, left the DNC in June after deciding not to run after his election was vacated over a procedural rule about gender diversity. 

On Wednesday, Hogg called this out as a “double standard that was selectively enforced.”

“I would argue that what I’m doing is not that different from someone having a leadership PAC that gives against an incumbent,” he added, noting he had no access to donor or voter data that would pose a conflict with his PAC.

Hogg, in conversation with Manchester, went on to state that the party, in his view, lacks the “courage to do bold things” and support for “competition.”

“I think I will be vindicated in four years,” he added about his departure from the DNC.