The Democratic National Committee has released a long-withheld “autopsy” report examining the party’s failure in the 2024 presidential election, when Kamala Harris lost every swing state to Donald Trump following Joe Biden’s last-minute decision to withdraw from the race.
DNC Chair Ken Martin published the report Thursday, a move that marked a notable reversal from his earlier stance. In December, he had said he would not release the postmortem, dismissing it as a “distraction.”
“When I received the report late last year, it wasn’t ready for primetime. Not even close,” Martin said in a statement, adding that neither he nor the DNC endorses its conclusions even now.
“But transparency is paramount,” he continued. “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.”
The 192-page report, constructed by hundreds of organizations and individuals, lays out a series of lessons to be learned from the party’s resounding defeat.
“The national campaign did not effectively drive Trump’s negatives, and the White House did not effectively support Vice President Harris over three and half years to improve her standing before the candidate switch,” the report said. “The retrospective job approval for Trump was too high and the campaign and allies failed to remind voters of his incompetence.”
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