{"id":93625,"date":"2026-05-22T04:42:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T04:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/rep-moskowitz-slams-dnc-autopsy-we-cant-even-tell-people-why-we-lost-were-too-afraid-to-tell-them-the-truth\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T04:42:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T04:42:21","slug":"rep-moskowitz-slams-dnc-autopsy-we-cant-even-tell-people-why-we-lost-were-too-afraid-to-tell-them-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/rep-moskowitz-slams-dnc-autopsy-we-cant-even-tell-people-why-we-lost-were-too-afraid-to-tell-them-the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Moskowitz Slams DNC Autopsy: We Can’t Even Tell People Why We Lost, We’re Too Afraid To Tell Them The Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) reacted to the DNC’s 2024 autopsy report<\/a> on CNN Thursday, saying Democrats know exactly why they lost the election: Joe Biden’s debate performance, the switch to Kamala Harris, and the party’s failure to focus on affordability. <\/p>\n

WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: Joining us now here in the Situation Room is Democratic Congressman Jared Moskowitz of Florida. Congressman, thanks so much for joining us. Simply stated, this document that we just obtained, CNN just obtained, casts Republicans as just better at politics right now. What’s your view of these findings? REP. JARED MOSKOWITZ (D-FL): Well, I haven’t seen it since it just came out. But obviously, like an autopsy is a medical procedure you do over a corpse. And now it sounds like we need a malpractice attorney because we couldn’t even do the autopsy correctly. So, look, we know how we got here, right? Obviously, you know, it was the Joe Biden issue at the debate. It was the switch over to Kamala without a process. And at the end of the day, Democrats weren’t talking enough about affordability in the economy. And that’s what we need to be doing. And we’ve been doing that ever since the election. And so, look, we lost the last election. It wasn’t close. But the fact that we can’t even tell people why, we’re too afraid to tell them the truth. They know the truth. They saw the debate. They saw what happened, right? And they saw that we got killed in the election. We lost every swing state. So they can write whatever document they want, but Democrats know why we lost. BLITZER: The report, as you know, is silent on several notable aspects of the 2024 presidential campaign. For example, it does not include any judgment at all about President Biden’s decision to run for re-election in the first place or the Kamala Harris’s campaign now infamous decision not to do an interview with podcast host Joe Rogan. Has your party, the Democratic Party, sufficiently reckoned with its past missteps to succeed in future elections? MOSKOWITZ: I think I think we have. I think we have reckoned with that. You know, whether the DNC has reckoned with that is a different question, obviously. The fact that they wanted to work on a document that doesn’t tackle maybe the two or three largest problems in the last election kind of tells you that some of the folks there were in denial of what happened. The American people know that’s why the election wasn’t close. We had never seen anything like this in our history. Look, Joe Biden served for 50 years in Washington. He has an amazing legacy, and he will go down as someone who gave his entire life to the political process and public office. But the American people saw that debate, and then they saw how we transitioned and got out of it. We were in a box at that point. And that’s not what the American people want. And that’s why we got shellacked in the last election. I mean, we lost every single solitary swing state. And so it wasn’t even close. It wasn’t even close. Now, listen, now we got a whole nother problem as a result of that. Right. We got 18 months of the Trump administration, right, gas prices in the mid $ 5, affordability is even worse. Inflation is even worse. Food prices are even worse. So those very issues that were going on in the last campaign, when we were talking about Bidenomics and all of that, and we were trying to tell people how to feel, Donald Trump has adopted that strategy. He’s telling people how to feel in really bad economic times. And that’s also not going to work for him. And so Democrats now need to be going out and telling that story, which is he told you it was going to be better and it’s worse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) reacted to the DNC’s 2024 autopsy report on CNN Thursday, saying Democrats know exactly why they lost the election: Joe Biden’s debate performance, the switch to Kamala Harris, and the party’s failure to focus on affordability. WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: Joining us now here in the Situation Room is Democratic Congressman […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9981,8798,4727,703,561,29222,321,6493,6058,3154,1281,1268,1296],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}