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Welcome to It Could Happen here, a show about things falling apart, the thing falling apart the past few years, the Democratic Party.

That's what we're going to be talking about today.

I'm joined by Sophie Ray Lichtenman. Hello. Hi, I'm not excited about this. This is great. Last time

we were on an episode together, we were talking about our two favorite Democrats, Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Oh, yes. They gave me COVID at the DNC. I'll never forgive them.

Not talking about them today, but we are talking about the DNC, the other DNC, the one who

puts on the DNC, the Democratic National Committee. So we're going to be talking about

the DNC autopsy. Oh, boy.

First, some background. Yes. After the Democrats lost the House, the Senate, and the presidency in

2024, if I'm reading that correctly, including losing the popular vote, something that has not

happened in 20 years, the Democratic National Committee, the DNC, wondered,

why did that happen? So the DNC commissioned a report on what happened with the 2024 election,

and this report came to be known as the 2024 autopsy. The newly elected DNC chair Ken Martin

pledged to make the upcoming report public, announcing after his chair

election, quote, there has to be some lessons that we glean on that so we can operationalize it,

not just here in D.C., but through all the 57 state parties, we have to look backwards and

look forward at the same time.

The 2024 election autopsy was commissioned in early 2025 and was supposed to come out later that

spring, but got pushed back to the end of summer and then the fall. And finally, in December of

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