Ken Martin

No one does, so we can't change what happened in 2024.

The only thing we can do is actually change what happens in the future, including the 26th election cycle, 28th, and beyond.

That means we do need to learn the lessons.

We need to make sure they help inform our decisions that we're making.

And we've been releasing those.

We released them just a couple months ago in our playbook, which if you want to look at that, go to dnc.org backslash playbook, and you can get an example of some of the lessons.

We've been releasing them with our donors and with activists and party leaders.

We've been talking about what those lessons are.

And we've actually been putting those lessons into action.

And so it's not completely accurate to say that we didn't release that.

Where we're keeping our focus is on the lessons that can actually help us win.

Yeah, there's no smoking gun in the report.

And I know that's what everyone's so eager to learn.

The smoking gun.

Guess what, John?

Because we want to keep the focus on the lessons.

Because what ends up happening here is that people, of course, want to weaponize the report in a way to look backwards.

to point fingers, place blame in a way that actually doesn't keep us focused on the upcoming election.

But instead, the navel-gazing of focusing backwards actually takes us backwards.

We're 189 days from this election, John.