{"id":73912,"date":"2026-05-23T06:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/democratic-chair-faces-calls-to-quit-over-shambles-of-election-autopsy-release\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T06:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:56:11","slug":"democratic-chair-faces-calls-to-quit-over-shambles-of-election-autopsy-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/democratic-chair-faces-calls-to-quit-over-shambles-of-election-autopsy-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic chair faces calls to quit over \u2018shambles\u2019 of election autopsy release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DNC\u2019s Ken Martin condemned for suppressing report for months and then admitting it \u2018won\u2019t meet your standards\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/21\/democrats-2024-election-autopsy\">Democrats belatedly publish 2024 election autopsy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ken Martin, the chair of the Democratic National Committee, is facing mounting calls to resign over his shambolic handling of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/21\/democrats-2024-election-autopsy\">an autopsy report<\/a> on Kamala Harris\u2019s defeat by Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Martin suppressed the document for months before finally bowing to internal pressure and releasing it on Thursday. The slapdash nature of the autopsy, omitting Joe Biden\u2019s decision to run for a second term and failing to mention the words \u201cGaza\u201d or \u201cIsrael\u201d, has only deepened a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/politics-news\/pressure-dnc-chair-ken-martin-builds-questions-handled-2024-autopsy-rcna346413\">crisis of confidence<\/a> in his leadership.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/23\/dnc-chair-ken-martin-democrats-election\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNC\u2019s Ken Martin condemned for suppressing report for months and then admitting it \u2018won\u2019t meet your standards\u2019 Democrats belatedly publish 2024 election autopsy Ken Martin, the chair of the Democratic National Committee, is facing mounting calls to resign over his shambolic handling of an autopsy report on Kamala Harris\u2019s defeat by Donald Trump in the &#8230; <a title=\"Democratic chair faces calls to quit over \u2018shambles\u2019 of election autopsy release\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/democratic-chair-faces-calls-to-quit-over-shambles-of-election-autopsy-release\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Democratic chair faces calls to quit over \u2018shambles\u2019 of election autopsy release\">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-73912","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\/73912","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=73912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}