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Harris backs call for DNC to release 2024 autopsy Ken Martin swept under the rug
Washington Examiner ^ | May 7, 2026 | Christian Datoc, Molly Parks

Posted on 05/09/2026 4:04:20 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Former Vice President Kamala Harris wants the Democratic National Committee to release its assessment of why and how she lost to President Donald Trump in the 2024 election.

DNC Chairman Ken Martin announced in December 2025 that he would not release the committee’s autopsy of the Democrats’ 2024 election loss, making a widely unpopular move to backtrack from his initial commitment to release the report to the public. He argued that releasing the autopsy could be a “distraction from the core mission” of the DNC.

But the Washington Examiner has confirmed NBC News’s reporting that Harris, who is publicly weighing another bid for the White House in 2028, wants the report released to the public.

Harris did not know Martin was going to keep the autopsy report from the public until he made the announcement, and she has not discussed the report with him, according to the outlet’s reporting, which was confirmed to the Washington Examiner by a source familiar with Harris’s thinking.

Martin said when he made the announcement that “stakeholders from across the Democratic ecosystem” were aligned about the DNC’s mission regarding the 2024 election.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


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1 posted on 05/09/2026 4:04:20 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Easy their cheating didn’t work.


2 posted on 05/09/2026 4:06:52 PM PDT by boomop1 (term limits NOW)
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To: boomop1

“ Easy their cheating didn’t work.”

And their candidates were a couple of barely literate morons.

L


3 posted on 05/09/2026 4:08:57 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Be careful what you ask for. You might just get it................


4 posted on 05/09/2026 4:12:49 PM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: boomop1
LOL! I gave her a $1 donation to get her book 107 Days. It is a hilarious 'poor little me' read. She could have had more than 107 days except their whole strategy was to wait until after the GOP convention, introduce the shiny new object and have the media do the selling.

It actually worked for a little while. Then she had to spoil it all by talking and answering real questions.

5 posted on 05/09/2026 4:14:05 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys many aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
...of why and how she lost...

Horizontal has no idea. Isn't she supposed to be the smart one?


6 posted on 05/09/2026 4:19:17 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: MinorityRepublican

We need to continue deporting the illegal aliens who vote for people like this.


7 posted on 05/09/2026 4:28:01 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (The U.S. Constitution is not a suicide pact. Progressivism is a suicide pact.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Can we tell Kamala Harris that the major reason Kamala Harris didn't win was Kamala Harris.
Or would that be mean?

8 posted on 05/09/2026 4:38:25 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty)
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To: MinorityRepublican
She's glutton for punishment. Hey Kambala, look in the mirror. You'll find the report there, printed in full.

9 posted on 05/09/2026 4:45:31 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: BitWielder1

I suspect she’s hoping the report will exonerate her as a poor candidate so she can say “See? It wasn’t me so you should support me if I run again”. I don’t think the report will exonerate her to the point Dem money will flow her way.


10 posted on 05/09/2026 4:46:51 PM PDT by Qiviut (A Mighty Fortress: “...the body they may kill. God’s truth abideth still. His kingdom is forever")
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To: MinorityRepublican

Idea. Challenge Gavin Newsom to quit his race for President because the people are rising up to call for Kamala.

She what he finds wrong with her. Starting with her race and gender.


11 posted on 05/09/2026 4:48:48 PM PDT 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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To: MinorityRepublican

Autopsy?
Please. It’s just spin, from career political folk.


12 posted on 05/09/2026 4:55:39 PM PDT by Buttons12 ( )
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To: MinorityRepublican

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/30/democratic-party-autopsy-report-2024-election

Days before the DNC announcement about ditching its autopsy, my colleagues at RootsAction released our own in-depth autopsy, assessing what went wrong in 2024 and how to make crucial changes for the midterms and 2028. Written by journalist Christopher D Cook, the autopsy (“How Democrats Lost the White House”) focuses on these key points:

Voter disenchantment: Losing 6.8 million voters who supported Joe Biden in 2020 proved pivotal in the close 2024 election. Harris’s inability to mobilize those pro-Biden voters was a massive failure.

Biden’s betrayal: Biden’s stubborn decision to seek re-election, and his refusal to step aside until very late in the process, robbed Democratic voters of open primaries and undermined Democrats’ chances.

Abandoning the working-class base: With millions of Americans feeling desperate because of rising costs, the Harris campaign lost this Democratic base by bowing to corporate donors’ interests and failing to challenge the impact of corporate greed in escalating inflation.

The Gaza effect: Harris lost many voters – especially young people, Arab-Americans and Muslim Americans, with sizable consequences in Michigan and other swing states – due to her refusal to indicate any openness to shifting her policy position on Israel and Palestine.

Losing young voters: Extensive evidence shows a huge drop-off in Democratic support among young voters aged 18-29.

Some of the bleakest findings in the RootsAction autopsy about the 2024 election involve similarities with the findings in the RootsAction autopsy about the 2016 election, “The Democratic Party in Crisis”. On matters such as the party standard-bearer’s support for corporate power and militarism, as well as failure to connect with young people and the working class while pandering to mythical troves of moderate Republican voters, the names Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris could often be swapped with complete accuracy.


13 posted on 05/09/2026 5:03:19 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: Lurker
Lurker @3: "And their candidates were a couple of barely literate morons."

It is probably insulting to "Barely literate morons" to equate them with Kamalamadingdong and TamponTim.

14 posted on 05/09/2026 5:13:43 PM PDT by Carl Vehse (Make Texas Texas Again)
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To: Qiviut

The smart democrats who want her to go away will be all for this since they know it will show how bad she was.


15 posted on 05/09/2026 5:17:11 PM PDT by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Kramala might as well pull her horse head out of her bunghole.
She has an extremely inflated opinion of herself.
She will never be president.
The demoncrats want to run “a white, “Christian” male” named Robert Francis Prevost.


16 posted on 05/09/2026 5:29:29 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: MinorityRepublican

“Americans thought Harris was awful!”

Give her the tough love…


17 posted on 05/09/2026 5:41:40 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Not all 2,000,000,000 muslims want to murder me, but 200,000,000 probably do.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“Harris did not know Martin was going to keep the autopsy report from the public”
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They don’t want to release it because it shows the primary reason was the loss of votes from Gen Z because they are all very anti- Israel in that generation and they boycotted Kamala because she was just going to follow Biden on Israel. Jews are 50% of Dem money so DNC has to walk a fine line when 80% or more of their voters are anti-Israel. Muslim voters only mattered in Michigan.


18 posted on 05/09/2026 6:04:19 PM PDT by jimwatx
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To: MinorityRepublican

19 posted on 05/09/2026 7:30:05 PM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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