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The D.N.C. Is Scrapping Its Report on What Went Wrong in 2024
The New York Times ^ | Dec. 18, 2025 | Shane Goldmacher

Posted on 12/18/2025 4:07:06 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

The Democratic National Committee is killing its autopsy of the 2024 election.

Ken Martin, the chairman of the D.N.C., said on Thursday that he had decided not to publish a report that he ordered months ago into what went wrong for the Democratic Party last year. Party officials have conducted more than 300 interviews with Democrats in all 50 states to create a document that Mr. Martin had once pitched as crucial to charting a path forward.

Mr. Martin will instead keep the findings under seal. He believes that looking back so publicly and painfully at the past would prove counterproductive for the party as it tries next year to take back power in Congress, according to a D.N.C. spokeswoman who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share the thinking behind his decision.

“Here’s our North Star: Does this help us win?” Mr. Martin said in a statement. “If the answer is no, it’s a distraction from the core mission.”

Many Democrats want to move on from 2024 and keep the focus on President Trump. They began the year demoralized but now feel emboldened after the party’s series of victories in November and special elections this year.

Still, even if it is good politics to stuff the report in a filing cabinet, Democrats may well be avoiding self-examination and a chance for introspection.

“It’s reflective of a broader problem within the party, which is we are scared of ever making anybody in our coalition upset,” said Simon Bazelon, a Democratic researcher who was the lead author of a different autopsy, called Deciding to Win, that was released by Welcome PAC, a centrist group. “I understand the incentives involved there. But it also limits us in a lot of ways because it means we can’t address difficult questions head on.”

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democratcorruption; democratincompetence; democratparty; democrats; dnc; kenmartin; literallyhitler; literallytds; literallytrumpler; madnessofcrowds; transparency
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1 posted on 12/18/2025 4:07:06 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Barack Obama not leaving DC, that’s what happened. Until this Nixonesc loser is removed from DC, they won’t stand a chance.


2 posted on 12/18/2025 4:10:59 PM PST by DownInFlames (P)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Not surprisingly, the “core mission” of the Democrat Party is win power. Mr. Martin is to be credited for his candor.


3 posted on 12/18/2025 4:11:23 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Okay. In great Freeper tradition, I’m not reading the article. After all it IS the NYTimes.

However, have they now decided that the D party hasn’t moved too far left after all? Is it full steam ahead with communism for any and all upcoming elections?


4 posted on 12/18/2025 4:21:06 PM PST by CFW
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To: MinorityRepublican

They could focus on what went right in 2020...

“The most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics”


5 posted on 12/18/2025 4:22:24 PM PST by C210N
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To: MinorityRepublican

For $100 I’ll tell them all they need to know.

1 ) You Suck

2 ) Kamala is braindead - insert cackle


6 posted on 12/18/2025 4:23:03 PM PST by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: CFW
Is it full steam ahead with communism for any and all upcoming elections?

Yes.

7 posted on 12/18/2025 4:25:03 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: CFW

They are doing great, so far.


8 posted on 12/18/2025 4:27:25 PM PST by Reverend Wright (Anschluss now !)
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To: DownInFlames

Barak, the shadow demon is still hell bent on destroying America and any patriots period.
With all the assassinations lately, Trump had better lay low.
He is the prime target.
Kirk has been eliminated.
There will be more>>>>certain MAGA politicians, Jews, Christians.
Even Erika Kirk.


9 posted on 12/18/2025 4:29:03 PM PST by doc maverick
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To: MinorityRepublican
There was nothing to report because there was nothing wrong with it.
They just didn't like the outcome.

10 posted on 12/18/2025 4:30:20 PM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty)
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To: MinorityRepublican

It must have had too much truth in it.................


11 posted on 12/18/2025 4:33:59 PM PST by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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“It’s reflective of a broader problem within the party, which is we are scared of ever making anybody in our coalition upset,” said Simon Bazelon, a Democratic researcher

Since many of the groups within their coalition have NOTHING in common other than the "D" by their name...

12 posted on 12/18/2025 4:46:33 PM PST by GOPJ (Democrats stand with criminals, dope dealers, illegals & terrorists. <P><I><B><big><center></B>)
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To: GOPJ

Crockett’s the answer.


13 posted on 12/18/2025 4:50:27 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: MinorityRepublican
Party officials have conducted more than 300 interviews with Democrats in all 50 states.

So...... They interviewed the entire MSLSD audience

14 posted on 12/18/2025 4:52:57 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try )
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To: MinorityRepublican

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democratic-national-committee-flip-flops-pulls-plug-on-its-2024-election-autopsy/ar-AA1SC9SK?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Martin, in a statement, said releasing the report would be “a distraction” from the party’s “core mission” to win back congressional majorities in next year’s midterm elections.


The bee and Trump knows what it says so we will know..............


15 posted on 12/18/2025 4:58:45 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: BenLurkin

Whatever plan the Democrats had, I’m sorry to say it was likely a real loser. If they had a plan to win honorably, that woud be a real plan, but I can’t think what it would be.


16 posted on 12/18/2025 4:59:10 PM PST by oldtech
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To: MinorityRepublican

Aw hell, Trump Bad and run Kamala again. That’s the DNC strategy right there.


17 posted on 12/18/2025 5:06:32 PM PST by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now)
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To: MinorityRepublican

18 posted on 12/18/2025 5:31:00 PM PST by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

5 words: “We didn’t cheat hard enough.”


19 posted on 12/18/2025 5:48:43 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I’ll take the assignment for $1.5 Million.

Trump appealed to more people than the dumb sounding and laughing Kamala and more people voted for Trump than for her.

Old joke of a basketball player figuring out a nuance of the game:
“I found that every time the other team scores more points than ours did, they won those games. Every time.”


20 posted on 12/18/2025 5:56:49 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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