It’s NOT a pretty after action report…..
Actually the DNC did NOT want to deal with the media questions the report IS generating already….
This is probably NOT gonna do Harris 2028 any favors….
The Democratic National Committee — after months of both internal and external pressure — released a haphazard version of its autopsy of Kamala Harris’ failed 2024 presidential campaign on Thursday.
The report paints a bleak portrait of the party following the crushing loss to President Donald Trump, who carried every battleground state in his Electoral College romp, even as it fails to address some of the defining issues of the campaign, including Israel and Gaza.
Democrats “have proven incapable of projecting strength, unity, and leadership, and voters have drifted away,” Democratic strategist Paul Rivera, who authored the report but is not mentioned in the published version, writes. The autopsy was first released by CNN and shortly after published by the DNC.
The incomplete report doesn’t mention a number of key issues that continue to dog the Democratic Party, including the issue of the war in Gaza. In 192 pages, it sparsely touches on former President Joe Biden’s decision to drop out.
It also appears to lack any formal conclusions about what went wrong.
Both the report and the process drew immediate, scathing criticism from prominent Democrats.
“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. “I’m glad Ken released this with annotations. Time to put this chapter behind us and move on and focus on winning the midterms.”
“What’s important is what’s missing, what they’re not releasing,” said Ashley Etienne, a former communications director for Vice President Kamala Harris who left the administration in 2021.
“It feels like what the DNC is doing is cherry-picking the parts of it that it wants to actually release, that [are] less problematic for the party going forward, because most of the stuff that we’re reading right now is … not groundbreaking.”
In a statement Thursday, DNC Chair Ken Martin said the report “does not meet my standards, and it won’t meet your standards, but I am doing this because people need to be able to trust the Democratic Party and trust our word.”
And in releasing it, the DNC put a bright red disclaimer atop each page: “This document reflects the views of the author, not the DNC. The DNC was not provided with the underlying sourcing, interviews, or supporting data for many of the assertions contained herein and therefore cannot independently verify the claims presented.”…..
Note…
The report IS a pointing at the fact that Republican Party has a CLEAR Leader in Donald Trump who craves attention and has little to no use for protocol, rules or even the country….
Donald is NOT popular on the whole…
But He DOES have STRONG party support, something Democrats have NOT had since Obama ran for office….
Democrats kicked Joe Biden out at the last minute, eh?…
Harris actually STILL exhibits the weakness in the party with a good amount of Democrats worried about her carrying Biden own her back, being a woman, being a woman of color and the possibility of going 0-3 if she would lose in 2028….
Finally?
Opposite Trump and Republicans?
Democrats have a ‘Big Tent’ mentality …..
Republicans have NO such thing anymore on a grand scale….
The report warns that fact could spell trouble in the November 2028 National Vote for President….
Oh?
Trump IS STILL running against Joe Biden …..
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