Nia-Malika Henderson, Columnist

Democrats Need to Release Their 2024 Autopsy

May 9, 2026 at 12:00 PM UTC

Nia-Malika Henderson is a politics and policy columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. A former senior political reporter for CNN and the Washington Post, she has covered politics and campaigns for almost two decades.

A wild 107 days.
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Ken Martin, the chair of the Democratic National Committee, is facing a mess of his own making. It threatens not only his unremarkable tenure, but also the party he claims to lead. Martin pledged to conduct and release an after-action report of Democrats’ disastrous 2024 campaign. Now he has backtracked, saying that there are no plans to release the full findings. That’s stoked the ire of party members and activists.

This is an untenable and indefensible position. In all likelihood, given how the increased scrutiny is making him squirm, he will be forced to change his position again.