More than four months after Democratic National Committee chair Ken Martin announced that he was breaking his promise to release its autopsy report on the 2024 election, the decision remains highly controversial. Arguments swirl around whether it’s wise to proceed without public scrutiny of what went wrong during the last presidential campaign. But scant attention has focused on how hiding the autopsy provides an assist to Kamala Harris, who currently leads in polling of Democrats for the party’s 2028 nomination.
As Harris eyes another run, she has a major stake in the DNC continuing to keep the autopsy under wraps – and has a lot to lose if it reaches the light of day. She must feel gratified when Martin defends keeping the autopsy secret, saying that the party should not “relitigate” the 2024 election and claiming that release of the 200-page document would result in “navel-gazing.”
Release of the entire autopsy would likely be a blow to Harris’s chances of becoming president in January 2029. Partly based on interviews with more than 300 prominent Democrats and others in all 50 states, it reportedly concludes that Harris’s unwavering support for U.S. weapons shipments to Israel was a significant factor in her loss to Donald Trump.
While she pursued an unsuccessful strategy of wooing scarce “moderate” Republican voters, many in the Democratic base were repelled by the full backing that Harris gave to President Biden’s massive arming of Israel as civilian deaths mounted in Gaza. She adhered to Biden’s admonition that there be “no daylight” between the two of them as she campaigned for president after he withdrew from the race.
At the time, polls showed that Harris was harming her election prospects by refusing to distance herself from Biden’s policy toward Israel. She evades that reality in her post-election book 107 Days, which dismisses antiwar protesters at her rallies as mere “hecklers.”
Harris’s protracted book tour has been beset by disruptions as well as her inability to provide cogent responses.
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You know it took 80 years between the time someone who looked like Obama could vote, and the time that someone who looked like Harris could. It shouldn't be surprising that this same pattern would appear in electability.
Harris probably can't win, but it's not her policy or resume'. It's her vagina. Because at the end of the day, two women have run for the chair, and Trump beat both of them. Maybe their weakness is the obvious thing they have in common?
Harris lost because America is such a misogynistic country, it's a problem on the left too.
If you disagree, then please explain why Harris' weaknesses don't apply to the (cock having) Joe Biden. I don't remember Biden being a socialist hero, but he was still able to defeat Trump without leaving his basement.
It's more they did nothing to differentiate themselves from the old white men that we hate. The DNC incorrectly assumed if old white men status quo rhetoric was coming out of the mouth of a white woman like Hillary the public would accept it without question. Then they tried the black woman approach expecting different results and try to claim it's a misogynist thing.
Yeah, exactly. It's the policies that were no good, not how they were articulated or by whom.