A leftist podcaster grilled Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin on Tuesday over his refusal to release the highly anticipated post-election autopsy examining how Democrats lost the 2024 presidential race. The DNC had initially signaled the autopsy would be made public, but in December 2025, the party announced it would not release the report despite Chairman Marin publicly pledging to do so. The reversal ignited a firestorm among some Democrats eager to understand why more than $1 billion in fundraising failed to deliver the White House to Kamala Harris. The review of the party’s 2024 wipeout is said to have centered around hundreds of interviews with operatives across all 50 states, raising concerns within the Democratic Party about airing internal divisions, according to Politico.  For Jon Favreau, former Obama speechwriter and co-host of Pod Save America, the public explanation isn’t cutting it. “Why did you change your mind on that?” he asked Martin, point-blank. Martin defended the decision, arguing the party is focused on applying lessons rather than relitigating the past. “What I said all along, even when I ran for this position, is that we were going to focus on the things that will help us win the upcoming election, right, making sure that we learn the right lessons that could help inform our victories,” Martin said. “It’s not completely accurate to say that we didn’t release that. Where we’re keeping our focus is on the lessons that can actually help us win.” Jon Favreau questions DNC Chair Ken Martin on why he won’t release the DNC’s autopsy on the 2024 election. pic.twitter.com/cypRJcK2bh — Pod Save America (@PodSaveAmerica) April 28, 2026 When pressed again, Martin insisted the report contains no single explanation for the loss. “There’s no smoking gun in the report. And I know that’s what everyone’s so eager to learn this smoking gun,” Martin said. Favreau pushed back: “But if there’s no smoking gun, why wouldn’t you just release it then?” “Because we want to keep the focus on the lessons,” an irritated Martin said. “Because what ends up happening here is that people, of course, want to weaponize the report in a way, to look backwards, to point fingers, place blame, in a way that actually doesn’t keep us focused on the upcoming election.” “Guess what, John? In the third-closest presidential election in the last 100 years, everything mattered. There’s nothing that didn’t impact that election,” he added. The contentious exchange comes as pressure mounts within the party to release at least part of the report. At a DNC meeting last week in New Orleans, attendees stood up and screamed at Martin, according to Axios, and leftist groups have deployed mobile billboards reading, “RELEASE THE AUTOPSY.” Leaked details of the report are said to have highlighted the party’s staggering losses with young voters, a defensive message on immigration, and outdated data infrastructure, according to Politico. “Democrats are allergic to accountability,” Briahna Joy Gray, former national secretary for the 2020 Bernie Sanders campaign, posted on X.