Democrats’ long-awaited autopsy of the 2024 election backfired almost immediately after it was released on Thursday.
The Democratic National Committee’s biting and gloomy portrait of the party immediately kicked off a fresh round of infighting, with strategists and party officials lambasting chair Ken Martin for releasing a haphazard, typo-ridden report that failed to fully capture why, exactly, the party was crushed by President Donald Trump.
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The 192-page document — which the DNC only made public after it had been published by CNN — made no mention of Israel or Gaza and included sparse references to former President Joe Biden’s decision to run for reelection, two key elements that contributed to Trump’s 2024 win.
“We should take this autopsy with a massive grain of salt. Clearly, the people who put it together ran a highly ineffective, ill-researched process. Therefore it’s difficult to draw constructive conclusions,” said Adrienne Elrod, a senior adviser on the Biden and then Harris campaigns.
Click here for a downloadable version of the "autopsy." It is mostly inside baseball, with scant attention to inflation, the border crisis, the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, Biden's cognitive decline, and other fundamental reasons for Harris's defeat.
