As RedState’s Nick Arama reported Friday, Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin decided a report on the Dems’ election efforts in 2024 was so gruesome, they weren’t going to release it. Instead of pushing for the transparency that they’re always jabbering about, they themselves are choosing to bury their heads in the sand and not let their donors and the public find out how they managed to faceplant in the presidential election despite Kamala Harris blowing through $1.5 billion — all while a friendly mainstream media complex was there to help by trying to convince voters of how smart she was.
Rather than learning from their failures, they are instead opting to hide them.
Not everyone inside the party is happy with this move, though, according to reports and social media posts:
Democrat Party members reportedly are angry that Chairman Ken Martin decided to bury a postmortem of the 2024 election.
Democrats commissioned an extensive internal review of what went wrong after their losses last year only to have Martin decide the public, donors, and even many party activists won't get to see it.
The backlash is coming from inside the Democrat tent, where strategists and operatives warn that refusing to air the findings reinforces a growing trust problem and all but guarantees the party repeats the mistakes.
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Insiders are reportedly fuming:
One insider told The Hill the party has a habit of "gloss[ing] things over" and pretending "nothing to see here," adding, "And that's how we lose elections."
Another prominent Democrat, strategist Jamal Simmons, argued that volunteers, donors, and voters "deserve to know what went wrong" and that the DNC should tell them.
That criticism goes to the heart of what conservatives have long argued, that the Democrat Party is increasingly run like a brand-management operation, quick to message and slow to confront reality.
Here’s how a social media user who describes himself as a “Lifelong Dem” reacted:
Hide the Autopsy Report, Lose the Narrative
— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline) December 20, 2025
Hear me out…
At the exact moment Democrats should be drawing a clean contrast with Trump’s culture of secrecy and cover ups, the DNC is choosing opacity.
Hiding the 2024 autopsy report isn’t coming across like strategy, it looks… pic.twitter.com/cgJ861lU73
Hiding the 2024 autopsy report isn’t coming across like strategy, it looks like fear of hard truths.
So far the lesson we read about from 2024 is “we lost white men,” that’s not analysis, that’s avoidance. Real questions are being buried, how did the free Palestine movement affect votes, coalition fractures, messaging failures, trust. You don’t fix those by suppressing evidence. You fix them by showing your work.
Democratic candidate for Governor of New Hampshire Jon Kiper says Martin just needs to walk away:
DNC chair Ken Martin needs to step down if he refuses to release the 2024 autopsy. If we do not know why we lost in 2024, how are we supposed to win in 2026? Hiding the truth is completely unacceptable.
— Jon Kiper (@votekiper) December 19, 2025
This is typical Democrat behavior: when things don’t go their way, they try to hide the evidence and avoid accountability. Luckily, we’ll be here to remind them of their blunders at every opportunity.
Editor's Note: America dodged a bullet when Donald Trump beat Kamala Harris at the ballot box.
One reason why he won is that conservative outlets like RedState kept bringing you the unvarnished truth, and we didn’t try to gaslight you like the mainstream media did.
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