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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

Democrats have had more than 18 months to ponder why Kamala Harris lost the presidency in 2024.

And so what have they learned in those nearly two years?

Well, apparently not very much. At least that's what it appears from looking at a leaked Democratic National Committee campaign autopsy

released this week. Welcome to Potomac Watch. I'm Kate O'Dell. I'm here with my esteemed colleagues

and gentlemen Barton Swain columnist and Bill McGurn, another columnist

and a member of the editorial board. We're going to chat today about the DNC autopsy,

and we'll also give you a quick update on Friday's news that Director of National Intelligence

Tulsi Gabbard has resigned from the administration. But Bill, digging into this autopsy report that the DNC

has put out, it's more than 150 pages, it is not scintillating reading, it is peppered

with odd annotations questioning the underlying reasoning. I think some of our listeners

will be wondering, what is this? Why did this come

out two years later? What's the story behind this late Democratic recrimination of 2024?

Well, I think whenever you lose, there are recriminations for the next couple of years.

Part of it, there's a good faith effort to find out what they did wrong so they don't do it

again. In practice, I think these autopsies are not useful at all because they're kind of by

definition, not honest. They're asking people to go on the record. So even though the whole

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