Top Democratic officials who worked on the party’s still-secret autopsy of the 2024 election concluded that Kamala Harris lost significant support because of the Biden administration’s approach to the war in Gaza, Axios has learned.
The Democratic National Committee’s research on what went wrong in 2024 has been under lock and key since party leaders decided last year to hide it from the public — a reflection of how explosively it could resonate within the party and beyond.
Axios independently verified that Democratic officials conducting the autopsy believed the issue harmed the party’s standing with some voters.
The IMEU Policy Project is now accusing the DNC of withholding its report in part because of its findings on Israel.
I don’t think anyone paying attention would suggest it had no impact. In isolation it wasn’t big enough to have swung the election in a single state, but it might still be significant enough to be concerning to the DNC.
I’m sure they’ll apply what they learn instead of trying the same strategy next time.
If you take money from Israel or send money to ICE, I will not vote for you in a Primary.
This is in line with what I already believed.
If only we had a candidate that actually won the primaries who didn’t soften their stance on it to finance a last minute campaign.
But neither candidate was good for Gaza so it really shouldn’t have been anyone’s determining factor. At the very least it should have been obvious that Trump was worse for them.
I still remember getting genuinely excited for Harris right in the beginning, obviously never a perfect candidate and match for my exact politics, but her early stances seemed much closer to mine than with Biden’s and Trump’s. And then it was like a switch flipped and she became an inauthentic shell of Biden policy and from there on out her momentum stalled - i think i remember hearing that around that inflection point her campaign team got swarmed with a bunch of biden’s old campaign team and then Harris lost control of her political agency - which, is a sign of poor leadership to not have stuck to their initial policies that had electrified her party imo.
