NOTE: Today I get juiced so this will be my only post today as I try to recover from the chemicals…..thanx for understanding.
The DNC has released the autopsy of the 2024 election loss….it has been a secret and held in confidence….why?
Why keep the reasons for their losses from the voter?
My autopsy was wrong candidate, wrong issues and a weak party that bows to special interests…..and now here is what the DNC found….
The Democratic Party’s official postmortem on the 2024 election has finally surfaced, but the DNC is distancing itself from its own document. Released Thursday after months of internal pressure, the draft “autopsy” of Kamala Harris’ failed presidential bid, which can be seen here, is stamped with a disclaimer from the Democratic National Committee saying it “does not meet our standards” and that the party “cannot independently verify” its findings.
- Prepared by Democratic strategist Paul Rivera and based on hundreds of interviews, the report pins much of the blame on Joe Biden’s White House, arguing it failed to give Kamala Harris the profile and preparation she needed before she became the nominee, the Washington Post reports.
- “The White House did not position or prepare the Vice President,” it says, suggesting that earlier efforts to elevate her might have boosted Biden’s numbers and left Harris better equipped to lead the ticket.
- The draft also faults what it calls “denialist” thinking inside the party—arguing that focusing on razor-thin margins instead of deeper problems blocks “real accountability.” The document says Democrats lost key ground with voters in “Middle America,” the South, and rural areas, who it says feel excluded from the party’s agenda. It criticizes a Harris strategy that “wrote off rural America, assuming urban/suburban margins would compensate.”
- The report also recounts that Trump campaign ads targeting Harris’ positions on transgender issues tested as “very effective,” and that pollsters concluded there was “nothing which would have worked as a response” if she didn’t change her position.
- Beyond 2024, the autopsy laments that the party has “vacillated between stagnation and retrogression” since Barack Obama’s 2008 win, CNN reports. Since 2008, Democrats have steadily lost power “at every level” due to “missed opportunities to invest in our states, counties, and local parties and candidates.” Democratic candidates, the report says, “have proven incapable of projecting strength, unity, and leadership, and voters have drifted away.”
- In a lengthy statement, DNC Chair Ken Martin said he’d held it back to avoid reopening old wounds after the 2024 loss, but conceded that the secrecy “ended up creating an even bigger distraction” and apologized.
- “I am not proud of this product; it does not meet my standards, and it won’t meet your standards,” Martin said. “I don’t endorse what’s in this report, or what’s left out of it. I could not in good faith put the DNC’s stamp of approval on it. But transparency is paramount. So, today I am releasing the report as I received it—in its entirety, unedited and unabridged—with annotations for claims that couldn’t be verified.”
- Martin said when he received the report last year, it “wasn’t ready for primetime” and “because no source material was provided, fixing it would have meant starting over, from the beginning.” The annotations also flagged numerous factual errors, noting that while it said Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin had “consistently and reliably voted for Democratic candidates” before 2024, all three of those states voted for Trump in 2016.
There you have it! The autopsy points to areas that the Dems have dropped the ball….and look at today’s party….they are looking for the ball they dropped decades ago.
Do you see a Democrat on the horizon that will project strength, unity and needed leadership?
I do not!
This autopsy was a waste of time…..held in secret and doing nothing to improve their plight….
Critics on Thursday slammed the controversial—and until now secret—Democratic National Committee autopsy of the 2024 election, which completely omitted some of the biggest issues affecting the contest, including President Joe Biden’s decision to seek reelection, the manner in which Vice President Kamala Harris replaced him atop the ticket, and the Gaza genocide.
The 2024 postmortem—which was written by strategist Paul Rivera and ostensibly examines why and how Democrats lost the White House to President Donald Trump and control of Congress to Republicans—was published online Thursday after it was obtained CNN. DNC Chair Ken Martin told CNN that he was “releasing the report as we received it, in its entirety, unedited and unabridged,” for the sake of “full transparency.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/autopsy-dnc-2676925645
Now if you want to read the report for yourself and not take my word for its worthlessness…then here is you link…..please do not take my word for it….see what you think…..
A lot to take in but you will notice how one sided this document is…it is BS.
The DNC still is not ready for ‘primetime’…..and sorry to say that what they have now is a loser in 2028 unless they come up with a plan and quickly.
Whatcha think?
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“lego ergo scribo”
Best wishes for a speedy recovery from your medical treatment.
You are right, this “autopsy” report is total BS. It focuses on marginal issues (e.g. the urban vs rural campaign strategy) and completely ignores the big ugly truth about the party which you have astutely and repeatedly addressed on this blog. The only bit of insight in the report – that their “candidates have proven incapable of projecting strength, unity, and leadership, and voters have drifted away” – was unsurprisingly left unexplained. IMO, America would be better off if the Democratic Party dissolved. Then, a real political opposition party might be able to reform.
Curious, Robert … if the Dems dissolved, what would be the timeframe for another party to manifest itself? In the meantime, wouldn’t this allow the Repukes to carry on their destruction of this country?
I admit I’m not politically astute, but I do wonder about the nuts and bolts of such a change.
You’re correct, Nan. It would be very difficult, not organizationally but legally. America’s two-party system has been built into the laws of the 50 individual states. Those laws were enacted via political bargaining between Democrats and Republicans, and the laws obviously favor those two political parties. That is why third parties are at such an electoral disadvantage. Also, to a lesser extent, congressional rules would have to be changed too but that is easier.
That said, reconfiguration of U.S. political parties has happened before (e.g. the Whigs giving way to Lincoln’s Republican Party), so it can happen again.
We need it to happen again….and now chuq
I agree with you….we need a true Progressive Party….and politicians with a spine. chuq
IMO, as long as beaucoup $$$$$$$ are involved, no anatomy strength is going to help.
That is it….money has condemned us to this system and it will strangle us . chuq
I could have saved them time and money.
1) They allowed Biden to blunder on for far too long until he started to make Trump seem smart and savvy. (Which should have been impossible!)
2) America is not going to vote for a woman president yet. If ever.
3) Combine that with a black candidate and get black+female, and Harris never had a chance.
Best wishes, Pete.
Those are pretty much my thoughts as well chuq
And no strong candidate seems to be stepping forward. Maybe there isn’t one at all. I think people see weakness in the Democratic Party and often focusing on the wrong things. I hate to say it, but they need to be male and white at this point and younger, a smooth talker with no hidden baggage.
Sounds like a good candidate….but also add a fire brand speech maker. Thanx for the visit and the comment. chuq