Overview
- Kamala Harris, who donors were told Thursday supports releasing the report, has not discussed it with DNC Chair Ken Martin and learned of his keep-it-private decision only after it was announced.
- Martin refused in December 2025 to publish the full review, calling a public release a distraction, and he has since suggested sharing only top-line findings while saying there is no smoking gun.
- The autopsy is described as about 200 pages, drawn from more than 300 interviews across all 50 states, and it was commissioned in February 2025 soon after Martin became chair.
- Calls for transparency have grown inside the party, with strategist James Carville blasting the secrecy and demanding answers on what strategies worked, what failed, and how money was spent.
- The stakes touch 2028 positioning and 2026 planning as donors question how roughly $1.5 billion was used during Harris’s 107‑day campaign that lost every battleground state.