DNC Chair Ken Martin disowned the leaked “autopsy report” for the 2024 election calling it not “ready for primetime,” NOTUS reports.

Said Martin: “I could not in good faith put the DNC’s stamp of approval on the report that was produced. After last November’s massive Democratic wins, I didn’t want to create a distraction, but by not putting the report out, I ended up creating an even bigger distraction. For that, I sincerely apologize.”

CNN obtained and published the report earlier today and then the DNC released it as well.

CNN obtained a copy of a report into why Democrats lost the 2024 presidential election conducted at the request of Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin.

Here are the takeaways.

The Washington Post reports the DNC officially released the report once it had leaked to CNN.

“Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) secretly helped a Republican state treasurer’s 2024 reelection bid after the official’s Democratic opponent had criticized Shapiro as a potential VP pick, a close Shapiro ally said last week,” Axios reports.

Former North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) admitted he lied during the final months of his 2024 gubernatorial campaign about his “obsession” with pornography and sex, CNN reports.

Said Robinson: “More than anything, you know, allegations that I watched pornography and was involved with people that watched pornography, and that that was absolutely true.”

“I got probably 85 million votes. They say 78 million, 79 million. They cheated in this election too. It was just too big to rig. They cheated like hell … a Democrats will get 3, 4, 5, 6, and even 7 ballots, and then we’re supposed to win. They’re professional cheaters.”

— President Trump, speaking to reporters.

“The Democratic National Committee, which began 2026 in debt and nearly $100 million behind its Republican counterpart, made a $6.5 million bet in the final weeks of 2025 to buy former Vice President Kamala Harris’s old email list of supporters,” the New York Times reports.

“That money almost immediately went to help Ms. Harris pay off expenses left over from her 2024 campaign.”

“Ms. Harris’s new political group, Fight for the People PAC, spent nearly $7 million in the final month of 2025, new federal filings show, overwhelmingly on presidential campaign expenses that had not previously been disclosed as debts.”

“Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to defend the most high-profile defeat of his political career, roughly two years after he withdrew from the 2024 presidential race, having spent more than $160 million to compete in one state and not win a single county,” Florida Politics reports.

Said DeSantis: “You know, you have no regrets in life. You just live, and you go forward.”

He added: “A lot of the people that have criticized me for running privately asked me to run because they didn’t think President Trump could win again. And there were reasons to do that.”

A new Emerson College poll finds 48% of Americans support the Democratic candidate on the generic congressional ballot and 42% plan on voting for the Republican candidate.

“Josh Shapiro wasn’t the only finalist to be Kamala Harris’ running mate who was asked if he had ever been an agent of a foreign government… Tim Walz was, too,” CNN reports.

“The Minnesota governor — whom Harris ultimately picked — was asked by her vetting team if he had ever been an agent of China, prompted by aides’ review of the multiple trips Walz took to China before running for office.”

“The political operation founded by Charles and David Koch raised and spent well over half a billion dollars during the 2024 election cycle, showing that the family unit remains a financial juggernaut despite its opposition to President Trump’s re-election,” the New York Times reports.

New Republic: “Democrats need to move right to win back voters in 2026 and 2028—that’s the conventional wisdom from a slew of Democratic think tanks and Beltway strategists. To make their case, they’ve released reports and polling trying to prove that voters are more moderate on many social and cultural issues—like trans athletes in school sports and immigration—than the party’s far-left activists.”

“But an exhaustive new report makes a convincing counterargument. More importantly, it provides a road map for Democratic candidates that doesn’t require throwing vulnerable members of their coalition under the bus.”