民主党全国委员会发布了期待已久的2024年选举后报告，引发了民主党人对报告本身和陷入困境的党主席肯·马丁的新一轮辩论。
周四报告发布几小时后，马丁与国家财政委员会成员通了电话。
报告称，民主党人没有强有力地说明为什么特朗普不应该当选，哈里斯的竞选团队过于依赖特朗普“不可接受”的观点，而不是为哈里斯为什么应该当选总统建立积极的论点。它还指出，竞选活动忽视了农村选民，并发现哈里斯在年轻的拉丁裔和黑人男性中表现不佳，主要集中在女性选民中。
马丁发布的报告没有完全完成，看起来一片混乱，这迅速招致了强烈反对。在审计报告的每一页上，都有一个免责声明，声明说，“本文件反映了作者的观点，而不是DNC的观点。DNC未获得本文所含许多主张的基本来源、采访或支持数据，因此无法独立核实所提出的主张。”
“当我去年年底收到报告时，它还没有准备好，”马丁在报告发布后的一篇子帖子中说。“差远了。因为没有提供原始资料，修复它意味着从头开始——每一次谈话、每一次采访、每一组数据。”
此外，报告没有提到以色列-加沙战争，拜登不顾人们对他年龄的普遍担忧决定参选，没有结论部分，根据民主党全国委员会和美国广播公司新闻的评论，发现了多个事实错误。
要求不透露姓名的委员会成员在电话中告诉美国广播公司新闻，马丁被问及为什么他没有试图恢复报告，他承认在他第一次得到报告后，还没有准备好“黄金时间”。
据两位国家财政委员会成员在电话中说，马丁说报告的形式不好，需要时间来修改。
金融电话中的第三个消息来源告诉ABC新闻，马丁说，因为民主党全国委员会没有报告所依据的任何原始材料，所以不可能“恢复”它。
“我们基本上不得不从头开始，再花3、4、5个月的时间来整合。看，我拥有那个决定，当然，事后来看，我希望我们刚才那样做了，但相反，我做的是，我说我们将专注于教训，”马丁在周四的财务电话会议上说，根据消息来源。
“我不能回到过去，改变过去，但我相信透明度，这就是为什么我们今天发布它，”马丁补充说，根据电话中的第三个消息来源。
Run for Something的联合创始人兼总裁阿曼达·利特曼(Amanda Litman)表示，最近几周，一些资深策略师问她是否有兴趣取代马丁，但她表示自己对此不感兴趣。利特曼说，她“无法想象”马丁会继续担任领导职务，但她承认，卸下主席职位的过程是“棘手的”。
一位长期的民主党捐助者和前民主党全国委员会代表在接受采访时说，马丁发表了一份不完整的报告，造成了“巨大的伤害”。
这位捐助者补充说:“他并不是因为发布报告而软弱，他软弱是因为他发布了一份不完整的报告，他承认这份报告还没有准备好，而不是做工作，提出一些真实、可操作和实质性的东西。”
在周四举行的员工电话会议上，民主党全国委员会主席肯·马丁谈到了对他辞职的担忧。
据熟悉电话会议的消息人士透露，马丁说，“这是一个重大错误。我拥有它，现在是我们在民主党全国委员会前进的时候了，我希望你能和我一起前进。”
DNC国家财政委员会的一名成员表示，他们“非常担心”该报告的处理和发布会拒绝捐助者，并且“无疑会受到伤害”
“许多捐助者都很担心，今天并没有带来更多的信心或让任何人对民主党全国委员会的方向感觉更好，”该委员会成员说。
一位在民主政治领域工作的消息人士在谈到这份报告时没有对马丁表态，“我认为这份报告是一场灾难。唯一比报告解释党在政策上是错误的更糟糕的是，在评估2024年出了什么问题时显得无能。”
一位消息人士向美国广播公司证实，宾夕法尼亚州民主党州长乔希·夏皮罗上周与马丁谈论了这次审计。该消息人士称，夏皮罗告诉马丁，民主党全国委员会应该公布这份透明的报告。
纽约州民主党众议员亚历山大·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯(Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez)周四告诉记者，她认为这份报告没有讨论选民对加沙战争的反应是“不可思议的”。
一些民主党全国委员会成员不认为对报告的处理是撤换马丁的理由。
民主党全国委员会成员安德鲁·拉赫曼(Andrew Lachman)在接受采访时表示，马丁应该继续担任主席，他一直做得“很好”。
另一名民主党全国委员会成员詹姆斯·佐格比(James Zogby)表示，马丁不应该被驱逐，但“如果真的有错误，那就是承诺了，然后没有兑现。”
佐格比说:“我已经在党内呆了33年，我看到党主席来了又走。“这是第一个专注于建党的人，当然，他在这个过程中也惹了一些麻烦。”
Democrats' 2024 audit prompts mixed feelings towards DNC Chair Ken Martin’s leadership
The release of the long-awaited 2024 election after-action report by the Democratic National Committee sparked a new round of debate among Democrats both over the report itself and over beleaguered party chair Ken Martin.
Hours after the report was released on Thursday, Martin had a call with members of the national finance committee.
The report said Democrats did not make a strong case for why Trump shouldn't have been elected and the Harris campaign leaned too heavily on the notion that Trump was "unacceptable," as opposed to building a positive argument for why Harris should be president. It also stated that the campaign neglected to reach rural voters, and found that Harris underperformed with young Latino and Black men, with most of the focus towards female voters.
Martin drew swift backlash for releasing the report not fully completed and looking in disarray. On each page of the audit, a disclaimer reads stating, "This document reflects the views of the author, not the DNC. The DNC was not provided with the underlying sourcing, interviews, or supporting data for many of the assertions contained herein and therefore cannot independently verify the claims presented."
"When I received the report late last year, it wasn't ready for primetime," Martin said in a Substack post after the report's release. "Not even close. And because no source material was provided, fixing it would have meant starting over, from the beginning -- every conversation, every interview, every data set."
In addition, the report makes no mention of the Israel-Gaza war, Biden's decision to run despite widespread concerns about his age, there's no conclusion section, and multiple factual errors have been found according to the DNC and to ABC News' review.
Committee members on the call, who asked not to be named, told ABC News that Martin was asked why he didn't try to rehabilitate the report, which he has acknowledged was not ready for "prime time," after he first got it.
Per two national finance committee members on the call, Martin said the report was in bad shape and it would've taken time to revise it.
A third source on the finance call told ABC News that Martin said that because the DNC did not have any of the source materials the report was based on, it was not possible to "rehabilitate" it.
"We would have essentially had to start over from scratch and taken another 3, 4, 5 months to put that together. And look, I own that decision and in hindsight, of course, I wish we had just done that, but instead what I did is, I said we were gonna focus on the lessons," Martin said on Thursday's finance call, per the source.
"I can't go back and change the past, but I do believe in transparency and that's why we released it today," Martin added, according to the third source on the call.
Amanda Litman, co-founder and president of Run for Something, said that in recent weeks she had been asked by some senior strategists if she would be interested in replacing Martin, though she said she is not interested in doing so. Litman said that she "can't imagine" Martin would stay in leadership, but acknowledged the process of removing the chair is "tricky."
A longtime Democratic donor and former DNC delegate said in an interview that Martin did a "huge disservice" by putting out an incomplete report.
"He's not weak for releasing the report, he's weak because he released an incomplete report that he admits is not ready for prime time rather than doing the work and presenting something real, actionable and substantive," the donor added.
On a staff call held on Thursday, DNC Chair Ken Martin addressed concerns regarding calls for him to resign.
According to a source familiar on the staff call, Martin said, "This was a major mistake. I own it, and now it's time for us to move forward at the DNC, and I hope that you'll move forward with me."
A member of the DNC's national finance committee said they are "super concerned" that the handling and release of the report will turn away donors and that it's going to "undoubtedly hurt."
"A lot of donors are concerned, and today did not bring any more confidence or make anyone feel better about the direction of the DNC," the committee member said.
A source working in Democratic politics said of the report, without taking a position on Martin, "I think the report is a disaster. The only thing worse than the report explaining that the party is wrong on policy is the appearance of incompetence at evaluating what went wrong in 2024."
Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro spoke with Martin last week about the audit, a source confirmed to ABC News. Shapiro told Martin that the DNC should release the report for transparency, the source said.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat, told reporters on Thursday she felt it was "unbelievable" the report did not discuss voters reacting to the war in Gaza.
Some DNC members don't believe the handling of the report is a reason to replace Martin.
Andrew Lachman, a DNC member, said in an interview that Martin should remain chair and that he has been doing a "good job."
James Zogby, another DNC member, said Martin shouldn't be ousted but, "If there was a mistake at all, it was promising it, and then not delivering on it."
"I've been in the party for 33 years, and I've seen party chairs come and go," Zogby said. "This is the first one who focused on building the party, and of course, he's ruffled some feathers in the process."
