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The Playbook Podcast

‘Shameful’ and ‘stupid’: Democrats react to autopsy report

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

News, Daily News, Politics, Government

3.9699 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

The DNC's nearly 200-page 2024 campaign autopsy is out — and Democrats are more upset about what's missing than what's in it. Playbook's Dasha Burns and Adam Wren get into it all. Plus, Congress fled town without finishing reconciliation. Then Dasha shares highlights from her interview with Ukrainian Ambassador Olha Stefanishyna on the state of the war and what Ukraine needs from Washington.

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Today on the Playbook podcast, the DNC just released a long-awaited draft report on what went wrong in the 2024 campaign.

0:42.1

Their autopsy, it's nearly 200 pages long, and it's become a hot mess for the party.

0:48.5

Also, Congress just left. They're gone without finishing reconciliation.

0:53.9

And it's been four years since the start

0:56.2

of the Ukrainian war. And I sat down with Ukraine's ambassador to the United States. Ohasafinichna.

1:01.9

Hello, I'm Dasha Burns. And I'm Adam Wren, and it's Friday, May 22nd.

1:08.4

Adam, I know your phone's been blowing up. I know my phone's been blowing up since this autopsy has been released.

1:14.9

What are you hearing from your sources?

1:17.4

Yeah, Dasha.

1:18.3

Well, D&C chairman, Ken Martin, is even more on the ropes than he already has been going into this week.

1:24.3

You know, he staked his reputation in the DNC chairs race on releasing an

1:30.3

autopsy like this. It was one of the biggest takeaways from the DNC chairs race and from his

1:35.9

time as leader. And what we've learned this week is that he assigned it to an unpaid volunteer

1:42.3

friend who was working with the DNC. and it's 192 pages of a mess.

1:49.2

The DNC researchers sort of went through and annotated all of the incorrect things on it.

1:54.9

Kim Martin released it basically with an apology yesterday, and there is significant blowback in the party. People say that he's

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