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Edward Helmore

Author of Democrats’ 2024 election autopsy report says chapter was left out

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Ken Martin, chair of the Democratic National Committee, during a campaign rally for Mikie Sherrill in Newark, New Jersey, on 1 November 2025. Photograph: Kylie Cooper/Reuters

The author of an infamous internal Democratic party report on the 2024 presidential election loss has claimed that an entire section that included a discussion of generational wealth established by high-ranking elected officials was cut from the draft version leaked and later released earlier this summer.

Paul Rivera, the author of the autopsy, told the New York Times that a section titled “What Happened in 2024” was missing from the published version but had been included in the version he personally handed to embattled party chairman, Ken Martin, in January.

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