Van Hollen says DNC Chair Martin should have released 2024 autopsy sooner
Key takeaways
- Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) on Sunday said Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Ken Martin should have released the party s long-withheld autopsy report of the party s defeat in the 2024 presidential election sooner.
- He should have ripped off the Band-Aid earlier, he continued.
- Van Hollen said Democrats need to be clear that they understand voters financial struggles, particularly as price hikes caused by the war in Iran drag on.
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Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) on Sunday said Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Ken Martin should have released the party s long-withheld autopsy report of the party s defeat in the 2024 presidential election sooner.
Van Hollen told Fox News Sunday host Shannon Bream that the report was incredibly shoddy and incomplete, I can understand why Ken Martin did not want to release it originally, but, of course, that became an issue in itself.
He should have ripped off the Band-Aid earlier, he continued. But I agree. Obviously, Democrats failed to connect with people throughout the country, including in the heartland, and it would be a big mistake for Democrats to think that going into 2028 we should simply try to go back to the pre-Trump status quo. I mean, the American people rejected that.