{"id":226612,"date":"2026-05-10T22:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T22:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/226612\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T22:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T22:21:11","slug":"kamala-harris-cory-booker-other-dems-push-dnc-to-release-its-2024-postmortem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/226612\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, other Dems push DNC to release its 2024 postmortem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pressure is mounting on the Democratic National Committee<\/a> to disclose its 2024 election postmortem, with even former Vice President Kamala Harris<\/a> urging the party to do so despite the risk of embarrassment.<\/p>\n

Shortly after taking over, DNC Chairman Ken Martin<\/a> ordered an autopsy into his party\u2019s 2024 drubbing, but opted to keep that report secret for months, prompting many Democrats to cry foul.<\/p>\n

Keeping the report buried was widely seen as a way to aid Harris if she were to throw her hat into the 2028 arena, given that it might be politically mortifying for her. <\/p>\n

But even the ex-veep has privately told donors she feels it should be public, though she hasn\u2019t discussed the issue with Martin, The Post has confirmed. NBC News first reported<\/a> Harris\u2019 private push for the autopsy\u2019s release.<\/p>\n

Kamala Harris reportedly wants the DNC to release its 2024 postmortem. Getty Images for Blueprint Capital Advisors<\/p>\n

Sen. Cory Booker called for the autopsy\u2019s release as well, but stressed he wants the focus to be on the future. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Harris is currently the leading Democrat for 2028, should she run, according to the latest RealClearPolitics polling aggregate<\/a>, with a 9.3 percentage point edge over California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D).<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, release the autopsy,\u201d Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) told NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press\u201d on Sunday, making clear he doesn\u2019t want Democrats to dwell on the past. \u201cThis is six months before an election. We need to be mobilizing and organizing in this election.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFine, DNC, release it. They should do that. But the most important thing is for people to get out and vote in record numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Political autopsies are frequently done by the losing party after presidential elections. The Republican National Committee famously did one after Mitt Romney\u2019s loss in 2012.<\/p>\n

Many observers\u00a0noted how President Trump seemingly ignored<\/a>\u00a0many of its core conclusions, such as a call for a softer tone on immigration policy, when he won the presidency in 2016.<\/p>\n

DNC Chairman Ken Martin has faced pressure to let the public see the Democrats\u2019 autopsy. AP<\/p>\n

Regardless of how useful the autopsy may be, many top Democrats still want it to be made public for the sake of transparency. <\/p>\n

There have been mixed rumors and reporting about whether the autopsy explored the impact of the Biden administration\u2019s position on the Israel-Hamas war on progressive voters. <\/p>\n

Axios reported<\/a> that it briefly referenced those concerns. CrookedMedia reporter Matt Berg reported<\/a> that the report didn\u2019t do a deep dive on the political fallout from the Israel-Hamas war, citing a source that described its contents on the matter as \u201cgobbledygook.\u201d<\/p>\n

There have also been rumors that the DNC<\/a> didn\u2019t fully finish the postmortem. <\/p>\n

Regardless, prominent Democrats are publicly pushing the DNC to let the public see it. <\/p>\n

The Post contacted the DNC for comment.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are all adults,\u201d Rahm Emanuel recently groused. \u201cIf we can\u2019t handle an after-action report on how we spent 4 billion and lost, then we are all third-grade soccer players and get a medal for effort. God help us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to deal with the hard truths about how our failure to stop the genocide in Gaza cost us support,\u201d Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) declared in February<\/a>. \u201cOnly when we have a new moral direction in this party will we win back the country\u2019s trust.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pressure is mounting on the Democratic National Committee to disclose its 2024 election postmortem, with even former Vice…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11704,32597,2132,10811,9,11,10,87,58],"class_list":["post-226612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-2024-presidential-election","tag-democratic-national-committee","tag-democrats","tag-kamala-harris","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-politics","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}