More than four months after Democratic National Committee chair Ken Martin announced he was breaking his promise to release the organization’s autopsy report on the 2024 election, the decision remains highly controversial. Arguments continue to 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 former Vice President Kamala Harris, who currently leads in polling of Democrats for the party’s nomination in 2028.
As Harris eyes another run, she has a major stake in the DNC continuing to keep the autopsy under wraps — and a lot to lose if it reaches the light of day. So she must feel gratified when Martin defends keeping the findings secret, saying that the party should not “relitigate” what happened in 2024 and claiming that release of the 200-page document would result in “navel-gazing.”
