Democrats Bury Gaza Autopsy That Sealed Kamala Harris’s Defeat
Jose Alberto Nino • March 6, 2026 • 1,400 Words • Leave a Comment
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For months after the November 2024 election, Democratic operatives insisted that the economy, immigration, and inflation were the only forces that dragged Kamala Harris to defeat. The party’s support for Israel and the devastation in Gaza barely registered in the official post-mortem conversation. That silence was deliberate. It turns out the Democratic National Committee had been sitting on an internal report that confirmed precisely what progressive activists, Arab American organizers, and Muslim voters had been screaming about for over a year. On February 22, 2026, Axios broke the story that ripped the lid off the party’s best-kept secret.
Top Democratic officials who worked on the DNC’s still-secret “After Action” report on the 2024 election had reached the conclusion that the Biden administration’s approach to the war in Gaza cost Kamala Harris significant votes. The finding was not speculative. It was drawn from the party’s own internal data, which had been deliberately buried.
The revelation came through an unlikely channel. DNC staffers compiling the autopsy had held a private meeting in July 2025 with the Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) Policy Project, a pro-Palestinian advocacy organization. During that closed-door session, DNC officials made a stunning admission. Hamid Bendaas, a spokesperson for the IMEU Policy Project, told Axios that “the DNC shared with us that their own data also found that policy was, in their words, a ‘net-negative’ in the 2024 election.” Axios independently verified that Democratic officials conducting the autopsy believed the Israel-Gaza issue harmed the party’s standing with some voters.
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