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J.D. Tuccille: Democrats dismiss bad news about the party’s fortunes again

A party-commissioned autopsy of the 2024 election offers good advice. Officials tried to bury it

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As is their special talent, Democrats fumbled not just the 2024 national election, but also the political autopsy of mistakes made by party officials that led to their rejection by so many voters. Democratic National Commission Chair Ken Martin, who commissioned the after-action report, now claims that the clearly pre-publication draft of what he asked for “wasn’t ready for primetime.” Well, of course it wasn’t; whole sections, including the executive summary, had yet to be added. But the document’s real “flaws” appear to be highlighting the mistakes of a political party that thought it could ride to victory while spurning men, rural voters, effective communications strategies and anybody uninfected by identity politics. That’s just a bit more embarrassment than party leaders can swallow.

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“I was elected Chair of the Democratic National Committee three months after one of the most painful and consequential election losses for Democrats in modern history. It was a punch to the gut, and people were pissed off,” Martin noted in a statement upon the reluctant release of the draft report, which the party commissioned and then sat on until CNN acquired and threatened to publish a copy.

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