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The D.N.C.’s Post-Autopsy Autopsy

Insiders knew they'd get blowback from the half-baked report whether it came out or not. But they also say that despite this latest fumble, Ken Martin isn't going anywhere.

Ken Martin
The general reaction, on and off the Hill, was that this was yet another fumble by D.N.C. chair Ken Martin after he’d promised the report, then shelved it, then reversed course again via a lengthy apologia that, critics quickly pointed out, he made all about himself. Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images
Marianna Sotomayor
May 21, 2026

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The release of the Democratic National Committee’s long-buried “autopsy” on the party’s 2024 shellacking landed with a thud in Democratic circles—and not only because it came out incomplete and riddled with errors. The general reaction, on and off the Hill, was that this was yet another fumble by D.N.C. chair Ken Martin after he’d promised the report, then shelved it, then reversed course again via a lengthy apologia that, critics quickly pointed out, he made all about himself. “I am the embodiment of the eye-roll emoji here,” one House Democrat texted me.