You can contend, as many do, that the reasons for the Democrats’ defeats in 2024 are obvious. But the Democratic National Committee’s job is to get Democrats elected to office, and the DNC wanted to get the most comprehensive, insightful, and useful analysis of the defeat that they could.

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After all, the Biden and Harris campaigns combined raised and spent more than $2 billion, and failed to win any of the seven critical swing states. There are also lingering questions about whether the Harris campaign had an accurate sense of how well they were performing. After the election, Harris wrote that her campaign’s internal analytics showed she was ahead in all the battleground states the Friday before the election; on a post-election appearance on Pod Save America, David Plouffe revealed, “Even post-debate, we had ourselves down in the battleground states… I think it surprised people, because there was these public polls that came out in late September, early October, showing us with leads........

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