Democrats' 2024 Autopsy Is Described as Avoiding the Likeliest Cause of Death [View all]

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/us/politics/democrats-2024-autopsy-harris-biden.html?unlocked_article_code=1.X08.Hv01.X3B9fW5zcq8O&smid=url-share

Subhed: An audit being conducted by the D.N.C. is not looking at Joe Biden’s decision to run or key decisions by Kamala Harris’s team, according to six people briefed on the report.

By Reid J. Epstein and Shane Goldmacher
July 19, 2025

The Democratic National Committee’s examination of what went wrong in the 2024 election is expected to mostly steer clear of the decisions made by the Biden-turned-Harris campaign and will focus more heavily instead on actions taken by allied groups, according to interviews with six people briefed on the report’s progress.

The audit, which the committee is calling an “after-action review,” is expected to avoid the questions of whether former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. should have run for re-election in the first place, whether he should have exited the race earlier than he did and whether former Vice President Kamala Harris was the right choice to replace him, according to the people briefed on the process so far.

Nor is the review expected to revisit key decisions by the Harris campaign — like framing the election as a choice between democracy and fascism, and refraining from hitting back after an ad by Donald J. Trump memorably attacked Ms. Harris on transgender rights by suggesting that she was for “they/them” while Mr. Trump was “for you” — that have roiled Democrats in the months since Mr. Trump took back the White House.

Party officials described the draft document as focusing on the 2024 election as a whole, but not on the presidential campaign — which is something like eating at a steakhouse and then reviewing the salad.

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Personally, I think this article is b.s. It's an excuse to criticize the Democrats for not condemning Biden or Harris. I wouldn't expect that to happen.