It’s not as though the post-mortem analysis Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin commissioned earlier this year was going to produce some shocking revelation about how Joe Biden and Kamala Harris lost the White House in 2024. The story’s major plot points are hardly a state secret.
Decrepit and too proud to admit as much, Joe Biden clung to the presidency well beyond his sell-by date. He bowed out of the race only after a fractious panic among his fellow Democrats forced him out, but too late to hold a legitimate nominating contest. The nod went by default to Harris, an uncommonly unimpressive politician her own administration had spent the previous three years sabotaging. The party ran on a platform of continuity after Biden presided over disasters abroad and historic inflation at home, asking voters to ratify their own misfortune. They declined.
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