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Posted on 05/21/2026 6:41:08 PM PDT by Red Badger
An autopsy of the 2024 election commissioned by the Democratic National Committee leaked Thursday. It is, in a word, “garbage.”
The post-mortem, first published by CNN, elides honest self-evaluation for sloppy conclusions and self-congratulation.
“At times, it seems Democrats are trying to win arguments while Republicans are focused on winning elections. Democrats operate in an ecosystem defined by reason even in cycles when the electorate is defined by rage. This highlights a fundamental and necessary truth — a brutal and efficiently delivered message will frame the choice for voters and help actually win the election,” the report reads. (RELATED: Democratic Voters Want Their Party To Move Even Farther Left On Healthcare, New Poll Shows)
Yes, Democrats are the Party of Reason. Recall former Vice President Kamala Harris’ insight into the significance of the passage of time in 2022.
“The governor and I and we were all doing a tour of the library here, and um, talking about the significance of the passage of time. Right? The significance of the passage of time. So when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time in terms of what we need to do to lay these wires, what we need to do to create these jobs, and there is such great significance to the passage of time when we think about a day in the life of our children.”
The author of the DNC autopsy believes Democrats were too hesitant to put President Donald Trump in prison.
“The retrospective evaluation of Donald Trump’s presidency was too positive. Given the ability of right-wing entities to slash and smear the Vice President, it was essential to prosecute a more effective case as to why Trump should have been disqualified from ever again taking office. The grounds were there, but the messaging did not make sense.”
Never mind that Trump’s mug shot proved one of the defining images of his campaign. The photo appeared on Trump merchandise almost immediately after Trump was released from Fulton County Jail in August 2023. The mug shot now hangs outside the Oval Office.
The author also alludes to Americans being too lazy to show up to the polls.
“Pulling people in is one of the hardest things to do in elections, especially in a modern information and cultural ecosystem where a lot of people are content to sit on their couch and be on the phone, as opposed to being out in their communities and engaging and learning about what’s going on in the world around them.”
What else is missing from the autopsy? Daily Caller Editor-in-Chief Amber Duke provides a breakdown:
The leaked DNC autopsy doesn’t mention:
– Inflation or Bidenflation – Podcasts – Women’s sports, bathrooms – Pronouns – Catholics, Christians, or evangelicals – ‘Religion’ or ‘Religious’ – White men – Anything related to MAHA – Gas prices
And: – Only one mention of trans…
— Amber Duke (@ambermarieduke) May 21, 2026
The author’s analysis of male voting habits is weak. He notes that Democratic North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein performed better with male voters than did Harris, which “suggests his campaign found ways to connect with male voters.”
Well, yes.
“The national campaign appeared to struggle with male voter engagement; Stein’s results suggest a different approach is needed.”
It would be helpful if the author explained what that approach should be.
The author elsewhere notes that the “national campaign had a specific problem with male voters” and that “Harris saw dramatic drops in support among young Latino men and young Black men compared to Biden’s 2020 performance. However, Stein recovered significant ground with both groups, suggesting his campaign found effective ways to reach these voters.”
The report advises that male voters “require direct engagement. The gender gap can be narrowed. Deploy male messengers, address economic concerns, and don’t assume identity politics will hold male voters of color.”
The author does not provide a substantive guide to winning male voters. There is no mention of podcasts, for instance, which formed a great part of Trump’s strategy in reaching young male voters. (RELATED: ‘Lost To The Couch’: Democrats Seek To Use Very Strategy That Helped Trump Win White House)
There is no mention of “pronouns,” “bathrooms,” or “sports,” all of which were significant culture war issues in the 2024 election. There is one mention of “transgendered Americans.”
The autopsy claims “pollsters concurred” that Trump’s “attack ad focused on the Vice President’s prior statements on transgendered Americans” was “very effective.”
“[T]he ad was a video of her saying what she said, and it was framed as an attack on her economic priorities.”
The DNC notes, in an annotation, that the report does not provide “source material or data” to back up this claim. The autopsy is littered with annotations from the DNC noting a lack of sourcing, internally inconsistent methodology, methodological errors, mathematical errors, incorrect facts asserted by the author, logical contradictions, and entire sections of the report that are missing.
Several subtitles appear, but have no content directly below them. Under the “Introduction” and “National Overview” section of “WHAT HAPPENED (ELECTORAL REVIEW),” the author simply wrote, “PENDING.”
By far the funniest correction appears in the section, “It’s The Future, Stupid.” In it, the author asserts that endorsements by Trump and Republican Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell in the 2022 Georgia Senate election constituted a “blatant attempt by the Republican power base to take advantage of name recognition and tough economic conditions to push through an unqualified candidate whose job would have been little more than rubber dstamping the president’s agenda.”
The DNC rightly notes: “In 2022, Joe Biden was president.”
In that section, the DNC also notes that the author “[a]ppears to conflate family and sick leave.”
The word “working-class” appears once, when the author praises Democratic Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin’s “working-class credentials and presence in manufacturing communities.” The report is oddly focused on the 2008, 2010, 2012, and 2014 elections.
The final leg of the report focuses on the influence of American billionaires Charles and the late David Koch on conservative politics.
You may be detecting a certain artificial intelligence-flavored tone to these excerpts. AI-detection platform GPTZero flagged the document as likely AI-generated.
DNC Chair Ken Martin finally releases the 2024 autopsy, but immediately disowns it and blames the guy he hired to write it. “I am not proud of this product; it does not meet my standards, and it won’t meet your standards.”https://t.co/0L5LyzydL8
— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) May 21, 2026
DNC Chairman Ken Martin announced in December 2025 he would not release the report, eliciting criticism from Democrats and Republicans.
“When I received the report late last year, it wasn’t ready for primetime. Not even close. And because no source material was provided, fixing it would have meant starting over, from the beginning – every conversation, every interview, every data set,” Martin wrote in a statement Thursday.
“I am not proud of this product; it does not meet my standards, and it won’t meet your standards. I don’t endorse what’s in this report, or what’s left out of it. I could not in good faith put the DNC’s stamp of approval on it. But transparency is paramount. 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,” Martin wrote, linking to the report.
One wonders how much money the DNC paid for this mess.
The Daily Caller has contacted the DNC press office for comment.
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It’s hard to screw up a report that only had to say “We suck”.
The last 10, 12, 15 years or so the left acts as though they were untouchable and had achieved perfect control of everything, including elections, they thought they didn’t have to do the hard work anymore, they keep underestimating the resistance to them and keep making bad judgements from taking it all for granted while rugs keep getting pulled out from under them.
IOW...today's Rat Party insists that the country must be "fundamentally transformed"...and "middle America" strongly,strongly disagrees.
America is a center-right country, and until the left realizes that, they will continue to step on a rake.
Read the donor report here: Deciding to Win - Toward a Common Sense Renewal of the Democratic Party
-PJ
I said before the Atlanta arrest that if they were stupid enough to arrest him, the race was over and Trump had it won.
Fortunately, the Democrat leadership was too stupid to figure that out.
No matter who, what, when, or where, the Democrat party has been taken over by the Far Left Wing. They will not change their tactics. They will double down on stupid and go even harder and farther Left if that is possible, and it is.
They will become more unhinged and more prone to violence. Their thug minions, Antifa, BLM and Occupy Wall Street, will become more and more violent and will be armed. There will be chaos and riots all summer long....................
It basically concluded:
We suck!.............
The Democrat Party has developed an artform of hiding the Party’s calculated acts of corruption behind a persistent smokescreen of genuine incompetence.
I bet someone got paid a lot money to write the incomplete report.
They can’t run their own party but want to run the country. RINOs aren’t much better.
What were they going to write - “We ran a candidate that makes Joe Biden look like a genius”?
“The autopsy is littered with annotations from the DNC”:
crap
bullshit
Trump’s fault
crap
untrue
crap
it’s the voters’ fault
BS
nonsense
crap
we can’t actually admit that
BS
if only Biden had bailed a year earlier
crap
if only kamala wasn’t a complete dolt
BS
The Dem “Agenda” was... and still is . . . “Orange Man Bad.”
Democratic strategist breaks down DNC’s 2024 election autopsy
“The Democratic National Committee released a long-awaited, yet still incomplete, report into what went wrong during the 2024 presidential election. The report had initially been shelved, but after months of consternation and criticism, DNC Chair Ken Martin said he released it in the name of transparency. Geoff Bennett of PBS NewsHour discussed more with Democratic strategist Faiz Shakir.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UsaJYDQhoM
I think tha democrat leadership didn’t realize that their policies turned off enough of the voters to overcome the cheating and fraud that the democrats had in 2020. Sane democrats and “independents” either stayed home or voted for President Trump. I know many democrats that still believe they MUST vote for democrats no matter what the democrats stand for. To me it’s a crazy, brain dead loyalty to voting democrat. The rest of the democrats want control, compliance, and a lock step mentality, where every individual democrat can be a dictator to everyone that disagrees with them, forced to comply to their lies, forced to not speak common sense, forced capitulation to their beliefs.
So it is every one’s fault but the democrats.
Where did Biden’s 81 million votes go? The Democrats failed to stuff the ballot box with fake mail in ballots in 2024. If honest The autopsy would confess to the 2020 election steal.
Yes!
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