The 2024 DNC autopsy report
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/21/democrats-2024-election-autopsy
Notably, the autopsy does not delve deeply into Joe Biden’s decision to run for re-election at age 81, or his decision to effectively hand over his campaign to Harris after he dropped out. The report makes no mention of the role that the US’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza played in the wider Democratic defeat, despite widespread polling about the impact of those issues, nor does it engage with the criticism that racism and sexism were a factor in Harris’s loss.
The following begs the question, why is it such a bad report? Is the DNC not capable of doing it's job?
Martin acknowledged the lack of comprehensive findings, saying that he was “not proud” of the report and cautioned that it would not “meet your standards”. But he added its release was dictated by the public’s need “to trust the Democratic party”.
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Don't now why they fought so hard to keep it under wraps, to the point of turning off so many in the party! Seeing the report makes it all seem so ridiculous. It seems to me the aloofness and arrogance of keeping it to themselves goes against the report's conclusions. For what?
Don't now why they fought so hard to keep it under wraps, to the point of turning off so many in the party! Seeing the report makes it all seem so ridiculous. It seems to me the aloofness and arrogance of keeping it to themselves goes against the report's conclusions. For what?
Agreed. It’s hard to see the motivation for sitting on it. I had assumed it would be harsh toward some constituency that the DNC didn’t want to piss off. But the points are general enough not to do that in any obvious way (if the AI summmary was any guide) As the DNC head said, withholding it was more of a distraction than releasing it. A classic Streisand effect.
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Sigh.
Paul Rivera previously served as a key adviser to state Senate Democratic leader John Sampson, a Brooklyn lawmaker who led an infamously dysfunctional majority for part of 2009 and into 2010 — and was later convicted of federal fraud charges.
DNC autopsy author was previously part of another Democratic humiliation
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The Democrat party in my deep red county is trying to organize at the local level. It's a good time to do that because there's a bit of a civil war in the GOP locally right now. If they make gains the division in the GOP will be the reason and is probably enough reason for me to vote blue locally. The Republicans seem to think they own the county, and that hubris needs to be smacked hard so they get back to working for us, not for power.
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Another tidbit to show how content free the report was...
Ramesh Ponuru in the Washington Post pointed out that the word “inflation” shows up 18 times in the report.
But each time talking about how the cost of ad spend and other campaign expenses have gone up. Not once talking about the affordability issues that played such a big role in voter dissatisfaction.
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