Yesterday 10:25 PM
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Here's a PDF of the report: https://democraticautopsy.org/wp-content...ehouse.pdf
2WAY videos below (Mark Halperin interviews)
Autopsy report (video excerpts): The DNC, after hiding this autopsy report for months, even under extraordinary pressure from a lot of leading figures in the party, Ken Martin finally put it out [yesterday] after CNN got a hold of a bit of it. There's not a person in a leadership position in America besides Ken Martin who would have put this thing out. It's a joke.
It's got typos. They disavow the whole thing. It's embarrassing. there's there's no good to come from this report being released and in fact you have some people in the party calling for Ken Martin to resign over it. [...] What's the big takeaway from this mess?
That the Democratic Party is as big a disaster today as it was in 2024 when Kamala Harris spent $2.3 billion to get smoked in every single swing state in America. I mean, the real story here is that the head of the DNC commissioned this report at the behest of a lot of really angry donors from 2024.
And he handpicked the guy who was to do it. [...] People refer to this guy as a Clinton strategist. I know him because he was the right-hand man to the state senate leader in New York. who went to prison.
But I think the biggest story is that the current leadership picked this guy. The idea that this guy was qualified to do anything. He was wildly incompetent. There was no introspective anything. The report looked past all of the issues from 2024...
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Democrats “Are in denial”: 2024 autopsy (video excerpts): Here's what Ray Buckley said about the pride of New Hampshire, Chairman Martin: "I have great confidence in Ken Martin. Not being part of the DC establishment is a blessing and a curse, but provides real world on the ground experience. It causes the DC elite to feel threatened by someone challenging their control over all aspects of the party."
I have great respect for Ray Buckley, but Ray Buckley, this is not the DC elites who are upset. It's Democrats across the country. This thing was botched and mishandled. [...] how ridiculous it was that the chairman released it.
[...] Martin is not going anywhere. He's not going to quit. The the the state party chairs will rally around him. Not very many people have called for him to resign. And I've been surprised at how few. So here's my question.
Who's going to do the stuff, Kevin, that needs to be done to to build the infrastructure for the presidential nominee? Who's going to raise the money? Who's going to to do voter file? Who's going to do all this podcast work that needs to be done? [...] He cannot do them because he's demonstrated a lack of basic confidence.
So, who will do these things, Kevin? Or will the Democratic party go into 2028 with no infrastructure for their presidential nominee?
[...] I think Chairman Martin has struggled to fund raise certainly and the numbers don't lie, but a lot of those numbers are indicative because the amount of money he has been pouring out into some of these special elections ... So not as much money is flowing in, but a lot of money is flowing out to do that work.
[...] You said Kevin is doing a great job of spending money, but he's not bringing any in. I'm no math genius, but this fundraising disparity is incredible.
In 2027 and 2028 and the Democrats are going to have a long-running, vicious, expensive nominating process. You better believe that the Democratic nominee who wakes up in June of 2028 is going to say to the DNC or somebody, where's my infrastructure? And if it's not there -- I don't care how much of a disaster the Trump presidency might be by then -- but it's not going to matter. They they won't have a chance to win. Larry, what's your main takeaway from the autopsy?
[...] The main takeaway is that they're in denial. They're not facing the facts. Maybe they re doing it privately, but they wanted to put a public face and try to sort of color-blur around the lines about what really happened in 2024.
If you ask anyone on the street, they know what was the problem for the Democrats. But if you don't actually take it seriously as a party and try to fix some of the institutional problems that you've got -- and some of the policy problems you've got -- then you're not going to fix the problem and the core of it.
Say what you will, but Reinhold Priebus and Sean Spicer -- after the 2012 loss of Mitt Romney -- they did a very thorough job and found a big gap in infrastructure funding and data research. They fixed it and it helped Trump win.
https://youtu.be/mLgJ3CoZXUQ
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/mLgJ3CoZXUQ
Autopsy report (video excerpts): The DNC, after hiding this autopsy report for months, even under extraordinary pressure from a lot of leading figures in the party, Ken Martin finally put it out [yesterday] after CNN got a hold of a bit of it. There's not a person in a leadership position in America besides Ken Martin who would have put this thing out. It's a joke.
It's got typos. They disavow the whole thing. It's embarrassing. there's there's no good to come from this report being released and in fact you have some people in the party calling for Ken Martin to resign over it. [...] What's the big takeaway from this mess?
That the Democratic Party is as big a disaster today as it was in 2024 when Kamala Harris spent $2.3 billion to get smoked in every single swing state in America. I mean, the real story here is that the head of the DNC commissioned this report at the behest of a lot of really angry donors from 2024.
And he handpicked the guy who was to do it. [...] People refer to this guy as a Clinton strategist. I know him because he was the right-hand man to the state senate leader in New York. who went to prison.
But I think the biggest story is that the current leadership picked this guy. The idea that this guy was qualified to do anything. He was wildly incompetent. There was no introspective anything. The report looked past all of the issues from 2024...
- - - - - - - - -
Democrats “Are in denial”: 2024 autopsy (video excerpts): Here's what Ray Buckley said about the pride of New Hampshire, Chairman Martin: "I have great confidence in Ken Martin. Not being part of the DC establishment is a blessing and a curse, but provides real world on the ground experience. It causes the DC elite to feel threatened by someone challenging their control over all aspects of the party."
I have great respect for Ray Buckley, but Ray Buckley, this is not the DC elites who are upset. It's Democrats across the country. This thing was botched and mishandled. [...] how ridiculous it was that the chairman released it.
[...] Martin is not going anywhere. He's not going to quit. The the the state party chairs will rally around him. Not very many people have called for him to resign. And I've been surprised at how few. So here's my question.
Who's going to do the stuff, Kevin, that needs to be done to to build the infrastructure for the presidential nominee? Who's going to raise the money? Who's going to to do voter file? Who's going to do all this podcast work that needs to be done? [...] He cannot do them because he's demonstrated a lack of basic confidence.
So, who will do these things, Kevin? Or will the Democratic party go into 2028 with no infrastructure for their presidential nominee?
[...] I think Chairman Martin has struggled to fund raise certainly and the numbers don't lie, but a lot of those numbers are indicative because the amount of money he has been pouring out into some of these special elections ... So not as much money is flowing in, but a lot of money is flowing out to do that work.
[...] You said Kevin is doing a great job of spending money, but he's not bringing any in. I'm no math genius, but this fundraising disparity is incredible.
In 2027 and 2028 and the Democrats are going to have a long-running, vicious, expensive nominating process. You better believe that the Democratic nominee who wakes up in June of 2028 is going to say to the DNC or somebody, where's my infrastructure? And if it's not there -- I don't care how much of a disaster the Trump presidency might be by then -- but it's not going to matter. They they won't have a chance to win. Larry, what's your main takeaway from the autopsy?
[...] The main takeaway is that they're in denial. They're not facing the facts. Maybe they re doing it privately, but they wanted to put a public face and try to sort of color-blur around the lines about what really happened in 2024.
If you ask anyone on the street, they know what was the problem for the Democrats. But if you don't actually take it seriously as a party and try to fix some of the institutional problems that you've got -- and some of the policy problems you've got -- then you're not going to fix the problem and the core of it.
Say what you will, but Reinhold Priebus and Sean Spicer -- after the 2012 loss of Mitt Romney -- they did a very thorough job and found a big gap in infrastructure funding and data research. They fixed it and it helped Trump win.
https://youtu.be/mLgJ3CoZXUQ