Author of Democrats’ 2024 autopsy says party left out key chapter
A dispute over the chapter has added to the party’s turmoil as it tries to look forward.
From The Times
August 4, 2026

After months of resistance, the Democratic National Committee finally relented this May and published a draft of its autopsy of what had gone wrong in the 2024 presidential election, saying it was releasing the unfinished document “in its entirety” in the interest of transparency.

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But, according to the man who wrote the autopsy, a chapter was missing. →

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