DNC chair ripped for downplaying unreleased 2024 autopsy after Dem losses: 'Self-inflicted crisis'

That document, a 200-page analysis conducted from over 300 interviews after the 2024 election, never saw the light of day after Martin ordered its creation, much to the frustration of onlookers like Jon Favreau, host of the "Pod Save America" podcast.

"We've been releasing that, Jon. The reality is we're not hiding the ball on this. We have been sharing those things out. There's no smoking gun here," Martin said.

"Here's our North Star: does this help us win? If the answer is no, it's a distraction from the core mission."

But, months after that decision, Democrats like Favreau continue to express an appetite to review Martin's findings.

Favreau pressed Martin on rumors that Martin had made pledges to release some version of the autopsy.

"NBC News said that before Easter about a month ago, you told DNC officers on a call to expect an executive summary in short order," Favreau said. "I feel like an autopsy on what went wrong when we lost the popular vote in all those states in 2024 and figuring out what went wrong based on a big report is pretty important for everyone to know."

"Jon, we've already been sharing that with a number of folks, including the DNC and other people," Martin said.

Martin's answer sparked skepticism online.

"The DNC Chair was right to show up. But the answers were tone-deaf, overly clever and ultimately unpersuasive. To donors and voters alike, it risks sounding disingenuous."

"Democrats are allergic to accountability," Briahna Joy Gray, a former national press secretary for Sen. Bernie Sanders' failed 2020 presidential campaign, posted on X.

"See, the mistake the DNC made is they could've released the report earlier in the spring, whatever's in it, you get two weeks of bad publicity, then Trump does something stupid and everyone forgets," Rotimi Adeoye, a former Democratic operative who is serving as a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, wrote on X. 

"Now it feels like something's being hidden, which makes it way more salacious."