Top Democratic officials who worked on the party’s still-secret autopsy of the 2024 election concluded that Kamala Harris lost significant support because of the Biden administration’s approach to the war in Gaza, Axios has learned.

The Democratic National Committee’s research on what went wrong in 2024 has been under lock and key since party leaders decided last year to hide it from the public — a reflection of how explosively it could resonate within the party and beyond.

Axios independently verified that Democratic officials conducting the autopsy believed the issue harmed the party’s standing with some voters.

The IMEU Policy Project is now accusing the DNC of withholding its report in part because of its findings on Israel.

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    The aphorism the kids are using nowadays is “fork found in kitchen”.

    I’m not in the US so I didn’t know the stats with this but since Lyndon Johnson, no democrat has been elected president with more than 50% of their voters being white.

    Carter was close with ~48%

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        Its definitely worse for palestinians every single time republicans are in power, especially this time.

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          It is definitely false. During Genocide Joe

          70% of all structures in Gaza were damaged or destroyed 92% of all housing units destroyed or damaged 88% of school buildings were damaged or destroyed 80% of key water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) facilities Only 16 out of 36 hospitals were partially functioning, facing critical shortages of fuel, medicine, and clean water. 75% of agricultural land, including orchards and greenhouses, was damaged or destroyed

          Harris is on tape promising unconditional support to the terrorist state of Israel. Biden blamed the lack of a cease fire on Hamas when he knew very well that is it Israel the problem. He provided diplomatic cover for the murder of Hind Rajab

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgXVRA4vpjI&pp=ygUfa2FtYWxhIGhhcnJpcyAyMDE3IGFpcGFjIHNwZWVjaA%3D%3D

          The Palestinians do not give a damn about your trashy country, your trashy electoral systems and your trashy excuses. If you voted for democrats or republicans you are complicit

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          A reminder that the biggest american-israeli deal happened during Obama a democrat and that is just before he left office so the excuse that opposing Israel is a political career suicide can’t apply

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          it’s like ice; it’s always been getting worse, but you’re only made aware of it once it becomes blue team fodder whenever it the red team takes control.

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      Did you care about Palestine before the genocide? You don’t even seems to care know since I never saw you calls out all the posts revealing Israeli atrocities and war crimes

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        I mean, both Yes and no. I grew up around a lot of palestinians, so i’ve known about it since i was very little and always felt with them and sided with them.

        But politically, it’s always been used as a Decoy. Every time Americans wanted to do something horrible, Israel was allowed to do something horrible first, so the world would be talking about Palestine, not what America was doing.

        This time, Americans let Israel do what they want, Russia do what they want, and they keep pointing and threatening North, while all their atrocities happen in South America.

        And the world is too busy looking at the worlds three biggest decoys 🤷‍♂️

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          You never has a single goddamn post or comment about Israel attrocities here. Only when you see a post about dems complicity that you appear.

          You are using palestinians as a decoy otherwise you would not defend dems and use the bs about how you can only pick between more genocide or more genocide.

          I am tunisian. Our blood was mixed with Palestinians blood. Israel attacked us for hosting the plo. Nobody was blaming other for hosting plo which led to the attack we never made excuses and used palestinians as a decoy for ulterior motive like dems and republicans does.

          Once you have some real contribution here about thr colonization of palestine, israel attrocities we may believe your bs

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            No i never post about that, you are right. The internet is full of it already.

            All i am saying is, the lesser evil is a lot less evil. Using an 80 year old genocide to justify not voting against a literal nazi, has led us to a point where literal nazis hold power in the strongest military in the world.

            What is happening to palestinians is horrible. The way it was being propogandized into giving Trump the power in America though, will have fat wider teaching consequences and eventually lead to a genocide that will make both Palestine and Ukraine look like childsplay.

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              The internet is full of people of people crying about how Harris and the dems lost , it didn’t stop you for joining so I am not buying your excuse. Fact is Trump is the president just accept it and fight against him in any way you can instead of playing this blame game

              There is no lesser of two evil in this situation. Just look at how Harris agree with trump policies about Gaza she welcomed his Gaza surrender plan. Palestinians do not give a damn about the BS you keep spewing . The lesser of two evil is rhetoric is the reason you got Trump not anti occupation and genocide people , you are complaining about the wrong things

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    After action reports only count if :

    there is a real effort to address problems ( there isn’t)

    that can be solved ( impossible to have most USA politicians be anti genocide)

    where votes are counted accurately ( most states fail United Nations standards)

    when all voters are allowed to freely vote( who knows how that will be?)

    Where the popular vote wins ( electoral college wins)

    And elections can lead to more wealth and health for the majority of the population. ( it cannot)

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    Yeah? Well if it takes an investigation to figure that out they’re truly the biggest dumb fucks in all of political theater.

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      They probably wanted a study and report because it’s one thing to have a hypothesis, it’s another to get actual data and prove it. Hopefully they got a comprehensive report and will actually act on the results. Arguably they should have gotten good data on what their constituents want BEFORE the election.

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        They won’t. They support Israel because of the legal bribes they receive.

        The only members of congress speaking out against the genocide are the only congresspeople who don’t accept AIPAC money.

        Supporters of the Israeli regime are scum.

        I won’t vote for them and I will encourage my friends to follow suit.

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          Its wild that people that have devoted at least a portion of their lives to working in government would be so easily swayed by mere money, and arguably not a lot of money, to support a whole different government who is clearly doing horrific things. It’s not like these people are short on money either, they’re all wealthy, a lot of them millionaire wealthy.

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            Working in elected office means dancing when your donors say dance. It selects for people willing to do anything for an extra buck. Anyone who actually had principles wouldn’t make it through the gauntlet that is campaigning in the US, and that’s by design. Why do you think neither party seems interested in campaign finance reform?

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            I assume a lot of that is blackmail or pressure from people being blackmailed.

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              But that’s just as wild, so many people in so many governments have either been bought for a pittance or blackmailed and none of them have retaliated or given the blackmailers the finger and exposed them anyway. I would be furious if I was a member of a g20 government and some genocidal dickhead from Israel had the gall to try and first buy my vote and second blackmail me into submission. I’d make it my life’s mission to see them and their entire nefarious network exposed and rendered useless.

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                I’ve read blackmail allegations in different news stories for a long time, some in mainstream newspapers. Additionally federal USA politicians are usually not very nice people.

                But even if one were to discount all that, the whole thing is, as you said, very weird

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    What was the point of the report if we knew going in what it would say, and there was no desire to act on the findings?