A bombshell leaked Democratic Party autopsy reveals that Joe Biden's White House lavished polling and strategy on First Lady Jill Biden, while leaving Kamala Harris so neglected that aides had no research prepared when she was thrust onto the ticket.
The 192-page dossier commissioned by the DNC reveals that the Biden White House ordered extensive polling on the settings, issues, and messaging Dr. Jill should use to support her husband's presidency. However, no equivalent research was ever commissioned for Harris, leaving pollsters scrambling to get three emergency studies into the field the moment Biden stepped aside in July 2024.
The author, veteran Democratic strategist Paul Rivera, brands the failure a 'massive missed opportunity' and concludes the White House never positioned or prepared its own Vice President to face Trump. 'As a result, at the moment of the candidate switch the polling team discovered there was no self-research on the Vice President to guide the development of the research instruments,' Rivera wrote. 'An incumbent Vice President. With no research to share once she became the nominee.'
'Had the White House explored and evaluated ways to leverage Kamala Harris earlier in the administration, perhaps it would have improved the President's standing, and it certainly could have helped prepare her to lead the ticket,' Rivera wrote.
The autopsy proved so politically toxic that DNC Chair Ken Martin initially refused to publish it, only reversing course after outcry from within his own party. Martin has since admitted that by burying the report he created 'an even bigger distraction' in a statement on Thursday. The dossier was published by CNN with heavy annotations from the DNC disputing the accuracy of many the report's claims.
