Facing intense internal pressure, DNC releases postelection autopsy that criticizes Kamala Harris

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17. That's one I don't see many addressing

In my opinion, this is the order of what caused the losses. Now the DNC can pay me whatever the hell they pay the useless consultants they’re been paying:

Biden’s age
The border
Inflation
Gaza

Then there’s a few specific to Harris:
She never won a primary (not once ever)

She couldn’t admit any faults of the administration or say what she would have done different

Odd VP choice that didn’t quite work (good man, but I personally never quite figured out the Walz pick)

Harris clips from 2020 about taxpayer funded transgender prisoner surgeries (it almost sounded like a parody). This probably had a bigger impact than people realize. The clip was replayed in ads repeatedly. It was gold.

Finally a few general issues with the administration, Other policy issues — not aligning with what the electorate found important compared to what democrats found important (case in point spending on EV infrastructure and heavy emphasis on climate change when the real concern was inflation and economic issues). I don’t think the administration did a good job on explaining or getting the point across on either gender affirmation care for minors or transgender women in sports. Both were classic wedge culture war issues that shouldn’t have become as big of an issue as they did.