CNN's @IsaacDovere sat down with Josh Shapiro where they spoke at length about his faith and his position on Israel. He brings his exclusive reporting to Inside Politics.
NEW from me: after his (yet again uncontested) primary win, I talked with Josh Shapiro on what how he says Pennsylvania proves a lot of the posters and pundits wrong when it comes to calling him too centrist, too buttoned up and too Zionist
https://t.co/qfiAsGo6Px
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Today:
-@IsaacDovere on how his autopsy story came to be and what comes after
-@alivitali on #TXSEN and whether a woman can win in 2028
-@JakeAuch's flame war with @grahamformaine
-WOKE POPE
TUNE INN!
There was a lot of speculation that the DNC autopsy would get into how Gaza affected voters in the 2024 election.
Reality: major players on both sides were never asked, nor were top campaign staff for Harris or Biden.
https://t.co/jZt2vp40oA
CNN's @IsaacDovere obtained the draft of the DNC's 2024 autopsy report that the party chair was hoping would stay hidden forever. He joined the Inside Politics panel reporting that many felt the draft report was "at best incomplete, if not wrong or contorted."
re these talking points the DNC is sending out calling release of the report "a good first step" ... as detailed in my story from this morning, the DNC had *no* plans to release the report until informed of CNN reporting that would detail its contents: https://t.co/jZt2vp40oA
NEWS - DNC is sharing private messaging guidance w/ state party chairs, urging them to reassert their confidence in his leadership.
"Do you have confidence to in Ken Martin's ability to serve as DNC chairman?" (sample q in email)
"I am fully confident in his leadership."
"Releasing the report in full is a good first step."
Jane Kleeb, Nebraska Democratic Party Chair, and president of the Association of State Democratic Committees:
"The DNC 2024 Report is out. A good move by Chair Martin. Democrats don’t win by avoiding hard truths - we win by facing them and getting to work.
State parties are already doing exactly that, using the DNC Playbook to organize, support candidates, and build the infrastructure that wins elections. Not just in the swing states everyone obsesses over. In every state, every territory, and every race on the ballot.
We don’t have our surfboards out waiting for a blue wave. We have clipboards out, ready to elect Democrats in record numbers this November - and protect the people in our states from reckless and cruel Republicans."
Asked Sen. Brian Schatz how he thought the DNC autopsy was handled. “Poorly,” he told me.
He said keeping it private gave the "implication that they were hiding something."
just some of the people who were not spoken to for the DNC's autopsy of the 2024 election include...
(also on this list, top campaign aides like Quentin Fulks, Michael Tyler, Ian Sams and Liz Allen, or Biden aides Annie Tomasini and Anthony Bernal).
https://t.co/jZt2vp40oA
.@JaredEMoskowitz just now on CNN about our autopsy reporting:
"An autopsy is a medical procedure you do over a corpse. Now it sounds like we need a malpractice attorney."
You wanted to see the long hidden DNC autopsy report of the 2024 election loss.
Here it is, and the convoluted never reported story of how it became an existential crisis of Ken Martin.
The autopsy of the autopsy: https://t.co/jZt2vp40oA
Ken Martin:
"I sincerely apologize. ... I am releasing the report as we received it, in its entirety, unedited & unabridged. It does not meet my standards, and it won’t meet your standards, but I am doing this b/c people need to be able to trust the Dem Party & trust our word.”
You wanted to see the long hidden DNC autopsy report of the 2024 election loss.
Here it is, and the convoluted never reported story of how it became an existential crisis of Ken Martin.
The autopsy of the autopsy: https://t.co/jZt2vp40oA
You wanted to see the long hidden DNC autopsy report of the 2024 election loss.
Here it is, and the convoluted never reported story of how it became an existential crisis of Ken Martin.
The autopsy of the autopsy: https://t.co/jZt2vp40oA
FACT CHECK: Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) relied on false and misleading claims to justify his decision to release election denier Tina Peters from prison.
(1) Polis repeatedly said the charges and case have "nothing to do" with the 2020 election. That's highly misleading. He's right that Peters wasn't charged with trying to subvert that election while it was happening. But trial testimony established that her crimes in 2021 were motivated by Trump's 2020 fraud claims, and that she conspired with Lindell-linked election deniers in hopes of proving that the 2020 results were invalid.
(2) Polis repeatedly said Peters "certified Biden won." This is false, because Biden did not win her county. Trump won Mesa County (63% to 35%) and that is what Peters certified. She has never publicly acknowledged that Biden won in 2020. (Polis office clarified to me that Peters certified the "votes for Biden" in Mesa County.)
(3) Polis claimed "nothing was compromised" with Mesa County's elections. This is wrong. It's true that Peters didn't compromise vote tallies. But Colorado's top election official concluded that Peters' antics "compromised" the election equipment. So the systems were decommissioned and Mesa spent $1m in taxpayer funds to replace everything. The DA who charged Peters told me she "100% compromised the equipment." https://t.co/loqCtauAJt
NEWS - after weeks of not so subtly showing her support for Connie Chan in the race to replace her back home in San Francisco, @SpeakerPelosi is officially endorsing her as of tomorrow
I asked Colorado Gov. Jared Polis what he expects to happen now that he's given Tina Peters clemency:
“I hope that she’s no longer a martyr, that she is just another person who believes in conspiracies on the street after this ... I’m not holding my breath.”
https://t.co/YMyJGP8ozw