The Democratic National Committee released an autopsy of the 2024 election after months of internal anger about keeping it private. The report examined Kamala Harris’s failed presidential bid against Donald Trump and was released unedited and unabridged. DNC Chair Ken Martin said the document did not meet his standards but was shared to build trust in the party and its word. Jessica Tarlov criticized the autopsy as shoddy and unfinished, citing a lack of citations and major gaps. She argued that more attention was given to hiding the report than would have been given by releasing it earlier, and said similar autopsies since the election have reached the same conclusions.
"For full transparency, I am releasing the report as we received it, in its entirety, unedited and unabridged, Martin told CNN, which first published the full document. It does not meet my standards, and it won't meet your standards, but I am doing this because people need to be able to trust the Democratic Party and trust our word."
"Tarlov echoed Martin in noting that it drew far more attention to hide the report than it would have to simply release it last year. The time to look at it was a year ago, when it was available for release. They made it into a scandal when it wasn't, she said."
"Because it's a piece of crap. I mean, the fact we spent our money on this, the DNC dollars that could have gone to, you know, knocking on doors or whatever else, on an unfinished piece of shoddy work. There were no citations. It would be like, you know, X, Y, or Z happened, or this interview, and then no cites. You don't kn"
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