2024 DNC Report Reveals Just How Bad Party Screwed Up Harris’s Campaign HH
The Democratic National Committee has released its analysis of the 2024 presidential campaign, in which then-Vice President Kamala Harris was decisively defeated by Donald Trump, despite spending over $1 billion in campaign funds.
Before I even review the findings, the story has actually become more about how badly the roll-out of the 2024 autopsy has been thus far:
Democratic National Committee chair Ken Martin on Thursday released the party’s autopsy report on the 2024 election after facing intense pressure to do so.
Martin had been pummeled in public for months after he promised to release the report and then reversed course in December, saying he would not do so. It’s one in a series of negative storylines that Martin has faced during his short tenure at the DNC, even as Democrats have made political gains in elections in the past year.
The situation for the Democrats is worsening because it seems the party did not honestly assess its performance: They anointed a candidate whose policies did not resonate with everyday Americans. Andrew Kolvet, a spokesperson for Turning Point USA, provided a blunt critique of the weak excuses offered for the unsuccessful campaign:
CNN just spent an entire segment proving the DNC autopsy is every bit as bad and evasive as we expected.
“There are a lot of things in that version that are incomplete, uh, and also it does not touch a couple topics that a lot of people were very interested in and thought were the reasons for this report not being out.”
“There is nothing about Joe Biden and what happened in the debate. There is nothing about Kamala Harris getting the nomination without any kind of primary process.”
Martin, who has done the party no favors as its leader, rolled out the excuses:
“I could not in good faith put the DNC’s stamp of approval on the report that was produced. After last November’s massive Democratic wins, I didn’t want to create a distraction, but by not putting the report out, I ended up creating an even bigger distraction. For that, I sincerely apologize.”
Understand, these are the losers who want to run the country. But they can’t even roll out a report without making it a disaster:
BREAKING: Democrat Rep. Jared Moskowitz is calling the 2024 DNC Autopsy report “malpractice.”
“It sounds like we need a malpractice attorney because we couldn’t even do the autopsy correctly.”
“We got SHELLACKED in the last election. I mean, we lost every single solitary swing state.”
The report hasn’t even been out that long and Democrats are already turning on one another.
So, what was the diagnosis for getting smoked in 2024? What does the report say? A bunch of stuff that appears to miss the point:
Much of the 200-page draft autopsy report doesn’t focus directly on the 2024 election — it includes a lengthy recap of modern American political history dating back to the 2008 presidential election, historic fundraising and spending data from past elections and more.
But the report also includes significant discussion of what the author believes went wrong for Democrats in 2024.
The diagnosis includes underfunded state parties and Democratic declines in voter registration. The report also stated that a “persistent inability or unwillingness to listen to all voters has provided the other major party with opportunities for advancement at the expense of Democratic growth, evolution, and ability to find common ground with seemingly disparate groups of voters from coast to coast, and the heartland Democrats tend to ignore.”
“Underfunded?” The party blew through a billion dollars. Also, here’s a much shorter version of what this autopsy should have said:
“Our anointed candidate sucked. She couldn’t connect with anyone outside of the lunatics in our party.
“Our policy ideas, when our anointed candidate even bothered to mention them, were inferior to Trump’s.”
“Running on ‘but I’m not Trump!’ isn’t a political winner.”
There, Ken. Fixed it for you.
Trump ‘Briefed With Options’ Amid Stalled Iran Talks
The Trump administration on Wednesday continued to express optimism about negotiations with Iran, even as Iranian officials insist that no direct talks have taken place, according to reports.
Iran’s deputy foreign minister said no face-to-face meeting had occurred in Doha and that no direct negotiations with the United States were currently planned.
Despite Tehran’s position, President Donald Trump described the discussions as “very good,” apparently referring to indirect contacts involving U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner communicating through third-party intermediaries.
Vice President JD Vance struck a firmer tone the same day, warning that the United States could escalate its response if Iran refuses to cooperate or takes actions that further destabilize the Middle East.
His remarks underscored the administration’s message that while it remains open to a diplomatic resolution, additional measures remain on the table if negotiations fail.
“If Iran attempts to rebuild its nuclear program, threaten its neighbors and support terrorism, President Trump has options to deal with it,” Vance noted, without elaborating.
Earlier, a Wall Street Journal report claimed that Trump had been briefed on several military options, including “all-out war,” but Trump said he wanted to give diplomacy more time.
Vance additionally stated that the US “dropped bombs on Iran because it fired on ships, and we used leverage to ensure safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz.”
He went on to suggest that the U.S. could take that course of action again.
Vance also said the current talks are “to discuss the details and flow of maritime traffic.”
The vice president, addressing U.S. military personnel at a naval base in Virginia on Wednesday, also said that Iran’s nuclear program has been set back decades.
“If you look at what our own intelligence says about their nuclear program, they are further away from developing a nuclear bomb than they have ever been since basically the last 20 or 30 years,” Vance said, though he stopped short of Trump’s claim that the program had been “totally obliterated.”
“What the president asks you to accomplish is to destroy the defense industrial base of that country, so that if they ever decided to rebuild their military, or if they ever decided to rebuild that nuclear program, they would be harmless to do it. You did that exactly as well,” Vance added, per the Times of Israel.
The VP went on to say that Trump is now “negotiating from a position of strength because of you.”
“If the Iranians try to rebuild the nuclear program, the President’s got options. If the Iranians try to threaten their neighbors or fund terrorism, we’ve got options,” Vance continued.
“But what we must never do is drop bombs just for the sake of dropping bombs. And that is what the president will never ask you to do,” Vance added.
“He’ll ask you to go to war, yes. But when he asks you to go to war, he’ll tell you exactly what you’re going for,” the veep noted further.
“And I think that is what you should expect out of your political leadership.”
“What I noticed about the people who are attacking the administration for negotiating is that they are the very same people who, for example, encouraged us to just go a little bit further and just drop a few more bombs in places like Afghanistan,” he said.
“If you go back to the mistakes that were made, those very same people refused to say what we were dropping bombs for,” he added.
“We dropped some bombs a couple of days ago… Because the Iranians were shooting at commercial ships… We applied some leverage, and we’ve had free commercial transit for the last three days,” Vance told the naval personnel.
