{"id":73876,"date":"2026-05-22T08:54:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T13:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/dnc-chair-under-pressure-again-after-flipping-on-releasing-autopsy\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T08:54:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T13:54:55","slug":"dnc-chair-under-pressure-again-after-flipping-on-releasing-autopsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/dnc-chair-under-pressure-again-after-flipping-on-releasing-autopsy\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC chair under pressure again after flipping on releasing autopsy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Democratic National Committee<\/a> Chair Ken Martin is facing increased scrutiny from his party, including calls to resign, after he changed his months-long stance and released the party’s long-awaited autopsy on its 2024 election loss.<\/p>\n

After months of refusing to release the report, which was meant to be an analysis of how and why former Vice President Kamala Harris<\/a> lost the 2024 presidential election, Martin flipped and released the report Thursday.<\/p>\n

Martin claimed he initially believed that putting out the report would be a distraction but then said that not releasing the report became “an even bigger distraction.”<\/p>\n

Critics within his own party argued the report released Thursday was far from comprehensive.<\/p>\n

DEMOCRATS RELEASE 2024 ELECTION AUTOPSY THAT CHAIR SAYS ‘DOES NOT MEET MY STANDARDS’<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“I think it’s pretty unbelievable that Gaza would not be mentioned once in the autopsy report,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a>, D-N.Y., told reporters Thursday.<\/p>\n

“I think it was very clearly a major dynamic and a major thread that was happening in 2024, regardless of how one feels about that issue, the fact that it’s not even addressed, I think, is a major oversight, and I think that for young people it was a huge part of the environment. I can tell you for myself, as a candidate during that cycle, there’s no way that it was an ignorable issue or totally immaterial. So, I think that you know it’s a real disservice to not speak to that or include or assess that,” she said.<\/p>\n

Ocasio-Cortez was far from the only congressional critic.<\/p>\n

Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., also criticized the document’s failure to mention Gaza.<\/p>\n

“One of the reasons we lost was our blank check to Israel<\/a> and Netanyahu while they committed genocide in Gaza,” he said in a video posted to his YouTube channel.<\/p>\n

“We must speak and confront hard truths if this party is to win in 2028,” he added.<\/p>\n

UNITY TESTED: DEMOCRATS FACE OFF OVER ISRAEL AND AIPAC DARK MONEY DURING DNC MEETING<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Others, like Rep. Mark Veasey, D-Texas, went as far as calling for Martin to resign<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“There doesn\u2019t seem to be a plan to turn things around and the clock is ticking,” he told Semafor<\/a>, adding, “November is literally around the corner\u2026 I believe it\u2019s time for him to move on.”<\/p>\n

Democratic strategist Steve Schale called the report release “an unmitigated s—show<\/a>,” according to NBC<\/a>, adding “there\u2019s just no confidence in the competence in the DNC.”<\/p>\n

Martin himself admitted the report’s inadequacy.<\/p>\n

“I am not proud of this product; it does not meet my standards, and it won\u2019t meet your standards,” he wrote Thursday<\/a>, claiming he could not “in good faith put the DNC\u2019s stamp of approval on it.”<\/p>\n

Entire sections of the report, which was written by Democratic strategist Paul Rivera, according to CNN<\/a>, were left blank, and the document was reportedly riddled with omissions and factual errors.<\/p>\n

Aside from omitting any mention of the Gaza conflict splitting party voters, the report also failed to mention former President Joe Biden’s<\/a> age or Kamala Harris’ selection of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital contacted the DNC for additional comment.<\/p>\n

Fox News’ Dan Scully contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin is facing increased scrutiny from his party, including calls to resign, after he changed his months-long stance and released the party’s long-awaited autopsy on its 2024 election loss. After months of refusing to release the report, which was meant to be an analysis of how and why former Vice … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}