Democrats Consider an Autopsy, but Who’s the Coroner?
The New York Times
The Democratic Party agrees it needs to figure out what went wrong. The question is how.
After suffering what could shape up to be their biggest electoral defeat in more than 40 years, Democrats agree on one thing: They need to figure out what went wrong.
The question is how.
After Republicans failed to oust President Barack Obama and lost ground in the Democratic-held Senate in 2012, G.O.P. leaders produced a 100-page report on what had gone wrong, which has been known ever since as the “autopsy.”
Democrats didn’t do that after Hillary Clinton’s narrow defeat by Donald Trump in 2016. But as my colleague Adam Nagourney and I dialed up Democrats all over the country today, we got the sense that a push for a similar exercise had begun in some quarters.
It’s coming from party stalwarts like Donna Brazile, a former interim chair and current at-large member of the Democratic National Committee.
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The Democratic Party agrees it needs to figure out what went wrong. The question is how.
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