DNC Releases 2024 Presidential Campaign Autopsy Report
Regarding the male voter problem: “The problem wasn’t Democratic policy or party brand. It was specifically about how Harris as a candidate.”
Democratic National Committee chair Ken Martin released the party’s 2024 autopsy report against his wishes amid growing pressure from within his party.
Martin released the report as he received it, meaning it’s “unedited and unabridged – with annotations for claims that couldn’t be verified” for transparency purposes.
Martin told CNN:
“When I was elected DNC chair, I commissioned an after action review of the 2024 election that I wanted to be honest and transparent, and with actionable and specific takeaways for the future of the Democratic Party,” Martin said. “When I received the report late last year, it wasn’t ready for primetime — not even close — and because no source material was provided, it would have meant starting over. I could not in good faith put the DNC’s stamp of approval on the report that was produced.
“After last November’s massive Democratic wins, I didn’t want to create a distraction, but by not putting the report out, I ended up creating an even bigger distraction. For that, I sincerely apologize. For full transparency, I am releasing the report as we received it, in its entirety, unedited and unabridged. 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.”
The report lacks answers to the biggest questions, such as Biden’s decision to run again and Harris becoming the nominee without a process.
Every page begins with a disclaimer: “This document reflects the views of the author [Paul Rivera, a veteran Democratic strategist], not the DNC. The DNC was not provided with the underlying sourcing, interviews, or supporting data for many of the assertions contained herein and therefore cannot independently verify the claims presented.”
I guess Martin truly wants to distance himself from the report despite the hard truths he must face.
Let’s look at a few of those hard truths.
“The sad truth is Democrats have lost ground at every level from inconsistent messaging and improper planning, even as the policies the Party advances continue to earn voter support at the ballot box,” Rivera wrote. “Ballot measures for Medicaid expansion, nonpartisan redistricting, wage increases, family leave, and reproductive freedom have passed in states where Democrats remain locked out of statewide offices.”
Rivera claimed that the Democrats won critical elections because of a flawed Republican candidate.
That is not a winning solution.
“Democrats cannot count on Republicans continuing to nominate deeply flawed candidates, and certainly need to think through how to nominate strong and ethical leaders,” stressed Rivera. “Regaining trust and confidence in the Party – where voters have an affirmative reason to support Democrats – will take a comprehensive strategy and considerable effort over multiple cycles. Democrats need to do it and do it right now, because the future could become even more difficult.”
Yeah, maybe House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries shouldn’t urge Democrats to “break” the opposition.
However, Rivera conflated the 2024 presidential election, claiming Harris’s defeat “was among the smallest in American history.”
Yeah, if you look at the popular vote.
The popular vote doesn’t determine the winner. We have the Electoral College.
The winner needs 270 electoral votes. President Donald Trump won with 312 votes. Former Vice President Kamala Harris only got 226.
It wasn’t a landslide, but let’s not act like Trump barely won.
I’m looking through the “What Happened (Electoral Review)” chapter, and it doesn’t include a section specifically for the presidential election.
Weird!
Governors, the Senate, the Attorney Generals, and the House all have a section within the chapter.
Rivera sprinkled in information about Trump and Harris in his analysis of key demographic patterns, irregular voters, geographic patterns, and strategic implications.
Rivera provided brutal truths about the Democrats’ problems with male voters of every color, education, wealth, etc.
“The problem wasn’t Democratic policy or party brand,” Rivera concluded. “It was specifically about how Harris as a candidate.”
Ouch!
“Every down ballot Democrat did better among men than Harris.”
Sheesh. Harris saw huge drops in support from young Latino men and young black men.
However, Harris concentrating on “college-educated suburbs” led to her only scoring 43% of the non-college voters, the majority of whom are white.
Harris made history by becoming the first Democrat to score less than 50% of new voters (only 48%).
Rivera told the DNC, “Winning requires a strong urban performance + competitive suburbs + limited rural losses.”
Harris ignoring the rural areas contributed bigly to her loss:
The math doesn’t work. You can’t lose rural areas by overwhelming margins and make it up elsewhere when rural voters are a significant share of the electorate. If Democrats are to reclaim leadership in the Heartland or the South, candidates must perform well in rural turf. Show up, listen, and then do it again.
In other words, you have to mingle with the little people.
That means men, too. Harris paid too much attention to women. You can reach out to men and women at the same time.
“Working-class men, particularly in manufacturing and construction, saw Trump as more aligned with their cultural values than Democratic candidates,” stated Rivera.
Was it all Harris’s fault? Not according to Rivera, who accused the Biden White House of “not effectively support Vice President Harris over three and half years to improve her standing before the candidate switch.”
But again, the report does not include anything about Biden choosing to run again and then dropping out or Harris becoming the candidate without a formal process.
Rivera mentioned that the late switch left Harris with limited time. But it doesn’t take away with a formula that has always worked, which is engage and reach out to everyone.
For instance, Rivera praised Jacky Rosen, who won the Nevada senate seat, for having a strong ground game. Rosen’s campaign stayed active with voters all year, worked hard with local organizations, etc.
Overall, though, the Democrats need to think local, stop ignoring people, and focus on the issues.
I doubt the now far-left party can do that.
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If it was a Harris problem she would have remained at a dismal, single digit share of the vote like the only primary she ever participated in. She vastly outperformed expectations by virtue of the D next to her name:
Your platform is shit. The end.
DNC autopsy report reveals the underlying problem was that Biden was brain dead.
And picked a running mate who was worse.
The Dems built their whole camp on “We hate Trump” for the last 8 years or so. Whatever he’s for, they’re against. Whatever he wants to spend money on, they will choke off. It makes the party strong in one sense, as in they can unify into one solid lump, no matter how weird and wacky the ideas are inside (see AOC, public statements) but it absolutely cripples them up in a major way that whenever Trump grabs onto a 80/20 issue, they *HAVE* to grab the live wire on the other end. Clinton understood the problem and went at it with triangulation and idea-stealing. When the Republicans stood up for an idea, he would sweep in and declare he had the idea first, better, and can do it bigger than them (while sabotaging the fundamentals of the idea in the process) Modern Dems can’t do that. If they agree with Trump in the slightest on sensible subjects, they are promptly attacked by every Dem who lives and breathes Trump-hate.
Autopsy on why their vote fraud bit the dust.
But they will pick up where it died and give it a new look
1) The incumbent, who stole his first term, was dementia addled throughout the entire four years. Which is problematic enough before you consider that he had a sub 100 IQ to start with. And he was a mean SOB to boot.
2) His VP isn’t qualified to be a common street walker much less POTUS. She never polled above single digits when she ran independent of Biden and it’s quite clear why. She wasn’t selected because of her amazing executive acumen or her stellar political accomplishments. No, she was selected because she was a) black, b) a woman and c) not as intelligent as the man ahead of her (wow…).
There. That’s the wrap up of the donkey’s 2024 problem.
That’ll be $500k please.
Willie Brown would disagree with you about the VP not being qualified to be a street walker!
They should listen to Fetterman and Frank and others that say Democrats have gone too far on social issues. Instead, they flock to Hasan Piker and Graham Platner, among others, as role models.
I had no idea their messaging was inconsistent. In fact all, I remember from the past 10 years is unified talking point which uses the same vocabulary and phrases. If you press play on media recordings for the oast 10 years it sounds like an echo chamber.
Hey Democrats, just keep lying, cheating and worse until you win or take over via coup, it’s all you got.
“The problem wasn’t Democratic policy or party brand,” Rivera concluded. “It was specifically about how Harris as a candidate.”
Two things can be true at once. As monumentally difficult as it was, the dems actually managed to find a vile, venal witch who out-vile, venal witched the original vile, venal witch named Hillary (mainly because she was sloshed more than Hillary. Allegedly).
Plus, the 2024 DNC platform was literally ‘Murder all the unborn, and trans the ones who survive’.
So, outside the greenest of green haired, tat mutilated, 4th wave feminists that message thudded like a lead balloon with voters compared to Trump’s brilliant ‘Harris is for they/them; Trump is for you’ America First messaging.
You want fries with that?
“Rivera claimed that the Democrats won critical elections because of a flawed Republican candidate. That is not a winning solution.”
At last I understand why Democrats seem to be concentrating on promoting deeply flawed candidates of their own!
This analysis seems self-servingly incomplete:
1. Our problem was inconsistent messaging.
2. It wasn’t that the message itself is shite. People like our message.
3. Here is a list of Democrat messages that people have approved even in red areas.
4. Here is a list three times as long of Democrat messages that people in all areas have rejected as batshit crazy.If their after action report is an “autopsy,” it means they’re admitting their policies (or excuses for them) are dead. Do you think they notice the sweet perfume of necrosis arising?
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It definitely reads like a group that thinks they are doing soul-searching and being introspective, but they are still projecting blame onto things other than their own failed policies.
It’s crazy how far some will go to delude themselves into thinking they are self-critical and inwardly honest.
The Babylon Bee did a two-minute comedy video a few months back on a DNC focus group analyzing their losses and trying to learn how to appeal to men. Worth a view.
I saw that when it came out and it was very funny as is their series on the progressive bi racial couple that move to Texas from California.
“Maybe get some real men in the party”
“Exactly, that’s why Pete Buttegeig grew a beard”
Sums up how out of touch the Dems are for the most part. I listened to The Huddle yesterday and one of the guest host was a Dem donation soliciting guy that has a podcast. He was sitting in for Dan Turrentine who is on the left but very good. That guy was nothing but TRUMP, INSURRECTION. J6 RIOTERS OVERTHROWING GOVERNMENT, TRUMP, BALLROOM, TRUMP. Endless anti Trump drivel.
Two things are crystal clear from this:
1) They have NO IDEA why they lost.
2) They won’t make ANY changes that will reverse their downward trajectory as a Party.
Heh. D’s still deluded after all these years. Keep it going for 2028.
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