Progressive Democrats criticize 2024 election autopsy for silence on Gaza | First Thing

The 192-page report does not mention Gaza or Joe Biden’s age. Plus, is the world heading for another Ebola crisis? Don’t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here On Thursday, the Democratic party published a postmortem – spanning 192 pages – of its 2024 election defeat, after an initial decision to withhold the document prompted an angry backlash. Ken Martin, the chair of the Democratic National Committee, released the report alongside an apology to party members angered by his initial decision to keep the analysis secret. Martin said the report “does not meet my standards, and it won’t meet your standards”. Progressive Democrats criticized the report’s content. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the congresswoman from New York, told reporters on Thursday that it was “pretty unbelievable that Gaza would not be mentioned once in the autopsy report”, saying it was “very clearly a major dynamic and a major thread that was happening in 2024”. Ro Khanna, the congressman from California, said that “one of the reasons we lost is our blank check to Israel and Netanyahu while they committed genocide in Gaza”. What’s in the postmortem? It focuses on key demographics that Kamala Harris lost