On Thursday, the DNC released its 2024 autopsy and based on the reaction from Chairman Ken Martin, an autopsy for the autopsy might be warranted. Joining MS NOW’s Ana Cabrera reports, White House reporter Laura Barron-Lopez reacted to the train wreck by lamenting her biggest takeaway was that the party was not strong enough in its response to President Trump’s “identity politics.” Barron-Lopez began her reaction by noting what was not in the report, “But again, there are key things missing, as Eugene pointed out, like Gaza. And also you pointed out, Ana, in terms of, you know, the fact that there was no primary to replace Joe Biden.”   After the DNC released their 2024 autopsy, MS NOW White House reporter Laura Barron-Lopez says her biggest takeaway is "it's kind of a classic Democratic takeaway that Democrats should not engage in, quote, 'identity politics.'" Before you could say "Huh?" she continued, "the… pic.twitter.com/6mqliyzt4x — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) May 21, 2026   The former PBS News Hour White House correspondent then opined, “But when it comes to some of my key takeaways, the fact that the autopsy report says that that Democrats—it's kind of a classic Democratic takeaway that Democrats should not engage in, quote, ‘identity politics,’ even though so much of the Trump's attacks on Harris and so much of the Trump administration, the Trump's campaign was about identity politics, whether it was about January 6th and those that were convicted, whether it was about, you know, injecting more Christianity into government and Christian nationalism or the anti-transgender attack ads that the campaign launched.” Barron-Lopez’s definition of identity politics is a weird one. It was liberals who tried to suggest Harris’s opponents were racists and sexists, which is why the autopsy wants Democrats to focus more on voters’ actual concerns. Secondly, it is not at all clear what Barron-Lopez is even talking about when she says Trump was “injecting more Christianity into government and Christian nationalism” into the campaign. She then continued, “Those are all identity politics. And then another big key piece of the Trump campaign was on immigration: anti-immigrant, closing borders, saying that they wanted to deport as many people as possible in the millions. That also is identity politics. And it's something that the Harris campaign didn't engage on at all. So the takeaway that they should just that—they had no answer or couldn't answer there is a bit striking.” Whether Democrats learn their lesson is up to them, but White House reporters should at least know that responding to Democrats’ identity politics is not proof of Republican identity politics. The reason why Harris had no answer is because there was no good answer. The Trump team simply cited Harris’s own words and used them to break down the allusion that she was a moderate and contrast her obsession with identity politics to voters’ economic concerns. Here is a transcript for the May 21 show: MS NOW Ana Cabrera Reports 5/21/2026 11:09 AM ET LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: But again, there are key things missing, as Eugene pointed out, like Gaza. And also you pointed out, Ana, in terms of, you know, the fact that there was no primary to replace Joe Biden. But when it comes to some of my key takeaways, the fact that the autopsy report says that that Democrats—it's kind of a classic Democratic takeaway that Democrats should not engage in, quote, “identity politics,” even though so much of the Trump's attacks on Harris and so much of the Trump administration, the Trump's campaign was about identity politics, whether it was about January 6th and those that were convicted, whether it was about, you know, injecting more Christianity into government and Christian nationalism or the anti-transgender attack ads that the campaign launched. Those are all identity politics. And then another big key piece of the Trump campaign was on immigration: anti-immigrant, closing borders, saying that they wanted to deport as many people as possible in the millions. That also is identity politics. And it's something that the Harris campaign didn't engage on at all. So the takeaway that they should just that—they had no answer or couldn't answer there is a bit striking.