More than four months after Democratic National Committee chair Ken Martin announced that he was breaking his promise to release its autopsy report on the 2024 election, the decision remains highly controversial. Arguments 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 Kamala Harris, who currently leads in polling of Democrats for the party’s 2028 nomination.
As Harris eyes another run, she has a major stake in the DNC continuing to keep the autopsy under wraps – and has a lot to lose if it reaches the light of day. She must feel gratified when Martin defends keeping the autopsy secret, saying that the party should not “relitigate” the 2024 election and claiming that release of the 200-page document would result in “navel-gazing.”
Release of the entire autopsy would likely be a blow to Harris’s chances of becoming president in January 2029. Partly based on interviews with more than 300 prominent Democrats and others in all 50 states, it reportedly concludes that Harris’s unwavering support for U.S. weapons shipments to Israel was a significant factor in her loss to Donald Trump.
While she pursued an unsuccessful strategy of wooing scarce “moderate” Republican voters, many in the Democratic base were repelled by the full backing that Harris gave to President Biden’s massive arming of Israel as civilian deaths mounted in Gaza. She adhered to Biden’s admonition that there be “no daylight” between the two of them as she campaigned for president after he withdrew from the race.
At the time, polls showed that Harris was harming her election prospects by refusing to distance herself from Biden’s policy toward Israel. She evades that reality in her post-election book 107 Days, which dismisses antiwar protesters at her rallies as mere “hecklers.”
Harris’s protracted book tour has been beset by disruptions as well as her inability to provide cogent responses.
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Problem is for people in red states, we don’t get much of a say in anything unless you just attempt to primary out MAGA conservatives for non-MAGA conservatives which are about as easy to find currently as cheap gas. I’ll vote in the primary here, but none of the Dem candidates in my district really give a shit about anything I care about. I’ve messaged every single person on the ballot multiple times and not a single one replied to me. So I’ll just vote independent in the primary since my state doesn’t require you register with a party since they at least pretend to care.
I’m in Texas, so pretty similar boat myself. I actually voted in the R primary in 2020 because our Governor was hell-bent on replacing every R legislator who didn’t back his school voucher plan (which take more money from the public school funds to pay for the voucher than goes into the system for each public school student). So I wanted to at least try and keep the anti-voucher R politicians in place.
That sucks that none of the candidates replied to you at all. Looks like OK hovers around 12-25% turnout in primaries most years. It’s no wonder they feel comfortable ignoring people. If you look at the numbers I posted in another comment about independent politicians at state and federal level, that should explain why I advocate for voting for nobody in the D primary instead of 3rd party.
My state, Missouri, seems to be 22-34% for primaries. Not sure how you could get more turnout here. The people I talk to who don’t vote in either the primary or general just tend to not care about the whole thing. Not like “I see no point cause voting is useless compared to direct action”, but just “I see no point cause politicians annoy me and I got better shit to do like sitting on my ass drinking beer”. I feel that seeing elected officials overturn the things we vote for also lowers morale even if you tell them voting for someone that won’t do that would make sure you get it.
Yeah, that’s just inexcusable. Those politicians fighting against the voters should be recalled. So many states don’t even have voter-initiated ballot measures or recall elections, though.
I think we should have mandatory voting, with all elections requiring RCV, a “none of the above” option, and if “none of the above” is the 1st choice of more than 50% of the votes then you have to redo the election with all new candidates.
I’d be curious to see how Missouri could get ranked choice voting back on the table since we banned it. They lumped it in with an amendment making it illegal for non-US citizens to vote here (something that was already illegal, but people don’t care). Not sure if we magically got a Dem that was willing to give us ranked choice voting would they also be seen as overturning the non-US citizens voting part which conservatives would have a field day talking crap about someone doing that.
oh neat … https://lemmy.zip/post/63736351
Solidly red here. Same. Dems in office aren’t letting go until they die or a maga replaces them and blue dogging to campaign against anyone left of Biden. So I’m definitely voting third if they put forth a better candidate.