The DNC’s 2024 election postmortem.
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Isaac Saul
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🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
On Thursday, May 21, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) released a report examining the party’s performance in the 2024 elections. The 192-page postmortem argued that Democrats must “organize everywhere to Win Anywhere” and particularly advocated for a “renewed focus on the voters of Middle America and the South.” However, the organization distanced itself from the document’s findings. In a Substack post accompanying the report’s release, DNC Chair Ken Martin said, “I don’t endorse what’s in this report, or what’s left out of it.”
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| 0:00.0 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:08.4 | A good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place where you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of our take. |
| 0:30.2 | I'm your host today, senior editor, Will Kayback. Today, we're going to be turning back the clock, or maybe that's not quite right. |
| 0:38.3 | We'll be looking back to look forward to understand the present or something along those lines. |
| 0:44.2 | It's all very convoluted for reasons that will become apparent shortly. |
| 0:48.7 | We're covering the Democratic National Committee's 2024 post-mortem analysis on the election. Now, this was a report that |
| 0:56.6 | was initially touted as a thorough review of why Democrats struggled, why they lost the presidency, |
| 1:02.3 | why they struggled in down-ballot races, and it was supposed to offer the party a roadmap going |
| 1:07.8 | forward to this year's midterms and the next presidential election. |
| 1:12.0 | But then now infamously, the report was stashed away. It wasn't going to be released at all. |
| 1:17.7 | And then finally, just last week, they reversed course again and put it out, albeit in a very |
| 1:24.0 | incomplete form. So we're going to dive into what exactly is in the report that was |
| 1:30.0 | released, whether it has any value at all, either for Democrats or just as voters in general. |
| 1:36.6 | And we're also going to talk about what the saga as a whole tells us about where Democrats are |
| 1:41.1 | in the moment. Before we get into that, though, a very exciting announcement to share with all of you. |
| 1:46.8 | Last week, we shared that we will be coming to West Virginia for an in-person event |
| 1:52.0 | in Berkeley Springs on June 14th. |
| 1:54.7 | And today, we are announcing that free press commentator Kat Rosenfield will be joining our existing panel, which includes |
| 2:02.9 | Tangle Executive Editor Isaac Saul, our editor at large, Camille Foster, and Longview Editor |
| 2:08.7 | and the Daily co-creator, Andy Mills. It's going to be a great conversation, and we're super |
| 2:14.0 | excited to have Kat joining us. We're going to be talking about artificial intelligence, national politics, |
| 2:19.5 | where things stand in the country, |
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