Ryan Grim

Digital creators or even supporters were afraid to say anything nice about Biden because their comment sections would get rocked.

For many voters watching the horrific, painful footage out of Gaza, it became a moral question when we didn't have a good answer for it.

In ways that may not be reflected in a poll, it meaningfully reduced enthusiasm.

As one person from the campaign told me, we spent the entire election with a giant rotting fish around our necks.

This was one of the places where Biden era, not his age, mind you, but his political era, led him to misread the politics.

His frustration with Netanyahu was well covered and spilled out into the public.

But Biden just misread the nation's support for Israel as an endless fixed object and missed how much the ongoing visuals were seeping into the public consciousness.

You're seeing the politics move today.

Senators who would never have considered it in years, in years past, are now signing on to the Sanders resolution to block offensive military aid to Israel.

Rahm Emanuel, of all people, is raising doubts about funding the Iron Dome.

But we were seeing this emerge on the ground during the campaign.

My hot take is that the eventual Democratic nominee in 2028 will support conditions on aid to Israel in one way or another.

And this section of your piece is important just from a news perspective because there was a dispute where there were reports that the autopsy did include basically a section about this and basically saying this.

Then there were some claims to the contrary.

You ran digital.

You were very high up in the campaign.

If you told the autopsy folks this in the meeting, it clearly is then reflected in the autopsy itself, whether we've seen it or not.

So did you tell them this directly in your conversations?

I don't remember if I told them this directly in the conversation.

I don't remember enough to say.