{"id":17222,"date":"2026-06-19T14:10:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T14:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetwistzone.com\/?p=17222"},"modified":"2026-06-19T14:10:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T14:10:22","slug":"liberal-ny-times-columnist-blasts-democrats-2024-autopsy-of-harris-loss-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetwistzone.com\/?p=17222","title":{"rendered":"Liberal NY Times Columnist Blasts Democrats\u2019 2024 \u2018Autopsy\u2019 Of Harris Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Liberal New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg sharply criticized the Democratic National Committee\u2019s long-delayed 2024 election postmortem on Friday, describing the report as \u201cmysterious,\u201d \u201canticlimactic,\u201d and \u201cridiculous\u201d following months of internal Democratic infighting surrounding its release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe document, it\u2019s now clear, was kept under wraps not because it was impolitic, but because it\u2019s a disaster,\u201d Goldberg wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She also blasted DNC Chairman Ken Martin for changing his tune regarding the report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat\u2019s most striking is its utter lack of substance,\u201d she noted further, adding that the words \u201cIsrael\u201d and \u201cGaza\u201d don\u2019t appear anywhere in the 192-page autopsy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt offers little insight into why the Democratic Party lost large numbers of Black and Latino men, or its failure to speak to disconnected, irregular voters\u2026 I wondered if it was written by A.I., though A.I. probably would\u2019ve done a better job,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When he was running for DNC chair, Martin said he would release the autopsy report but later changed his mind, declaring it would not be released publicly at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That decision made the report \u201can object of suspicion and fascination,\u201d Goldberg wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSome thought he was protecting Kamala Harris ahead of 2028. Many progressives were convinced that the D.N.C. quashed the autopsy because it would show Harris was done in by Gaza,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cRob Flaherty, who\u2019d been deputy director of both the Harris and Joe Biden campaigns, speculated that it didn\u2019t even exist,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Conservative Washington Post columnist Ramesh Ponnuru also focused on what the report did not include.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere\u2019s nothing about President Joe Biden\u2019s age and voters\u2019 worries about it. Nothing about the border crisis the Democrats first caused through their policies and then denied in their rhetoric,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNothing about the party\u2019s declining appeal to religiously observant voters,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNothing about the boutique left-wing views \u2014 such as support for taxpayer-funded sex changes for illegal immigrants and prisoners,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, the report failed to fault Vice President Kamala Harris, who ran an ineffective campaign despite burning through $1.5 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It also did not fault the manner in which she was simply anointed as the party\u2019s candidate after President Joe Biden dropped out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report, which was released Thursday and first detailed by CNN, argued that the Democratic National Committee weakened its own political infrastructure through declining voter registration efforts, reduced financial support for state parties, and a broader failure to engage with key voter blocs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It also said that Democrats have to renew their focus on voters in Middle America and the heavily Republican South.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For his part, Martin distanced himself from the report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI am not proud of this product; it does not meet my standards, and it won\u2019t meet your standards,\u201d he said,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/liberal-ny-times-columnist-roasts-dem-election-autopsy-as-ridiculous-says-ai-could-have-done-a-better-job\/ar-AA23TJw2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">per Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He added that he could not \u201cin good faith put the DNC\u2019s stamp of approval on it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/conservativebrief.com\/report-harris-2-101470\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">written<\/a>&nbsp;by Democratic strategist Paul Rivera, was released with a disclaimer stating it \u201creflects the views of the author, not the DNC.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The committee went even further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It said it \u201cwas 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Martin also said the report was released for the sake of transparency \u201cas I received it \u2013 in its entirety, unedited and unabridged \u2013 with annotations for claims that couldn\u2019t be verified.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rivera, a longtime Democratic consultant, had reportedly not worked on a presidential campaign in more than two decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberal New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg sharply criticized the Democratic National Committee\u2019s long-delayed 2024 election postmortem on Friday, describing the report as \u201cmysterious,\u201d \u201canticlimactic,\u201d and \u201cridiculous\u201d following months of &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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