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By STEVE PEOPLES and MEG KINARD<\/strong><\/p>\n

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 One day after the Democratic National Committee released its botched autopsy report on the 2024 election, party leaders continued limping toward the midterm elections \u2014 even as other prominent Democrats demanded major changes at the very top of the organization.<\/p>\n

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Ken Martin, the committee\u2019s chair, faced new calls to resign from elected officials and Democratic operatives, who say he mismanaged a report originally intended to be a comprehensive examination of the party\u2019s failures and a potential road map for its future. Martin kept the document under wraps for months, stoking speculation about its contents, only to release it this week and insist it was too flawed to be useful anyway.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere doesn\u2019t seem to be a plan to turn things around and the clock is ticking. November is literally around the corner,\u201d Rep. Marc Veasey, D-Texas, told Semafor. \u201cI believe it\u2019s time for him to move on.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe should resign,\u201d Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., said to Axios.<\/p>\n

And in a radio interview, Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wisc., said he agreed with a caller saying Martin should be replaced.<\/p>\n

But Martin maintains support from many state party leaders, who have benefited from a steady stream of funding from national headquarters since he took over. In a conversation with DNC staff on Thursday, Martin apologized for his handling of the autopsy and said he was determined to continue leading the organization.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a major mistake. I own it, and now it\u2019s time for us to move forward at the DNC, and I hope that you\u2019ll move forward with me,\u201d Martin said, according to a person with knowledge of the call who was not authorized to disclose a private conversation.<\/p>\n

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Martin, a little-known Minnesota operative before emerging last year as the head of the national party\u2019s formal political machine, has already faced criticism for dismal fundraising and inability to inspire confidence among his party\u2019s unruly membership.<\/p>\n

However, there was no sign that a serious alternative was emerging. The Associated Press contacted a half dozen Democratic presidential prospects to gauge their support for Martin and all of them declined to weigh in.<\/p>\n

The intraparty feud represented an extraordinary distraction for a Democratic Party showing signs of momentum in its fight to break President Donald Trump\u2019s grip on power in Washington. Democrats hope to regain majorities in the U.S. House and U.S. Senate in the November midterms, and Republicans could be vulnerable because of Trump\u2019s low approval ratings, dissatisfaction over the war in Iran and lingering economic frustration.<\/p>\n

Martin\u2019s allies across the country lashed out at Democrats who were fueling the election-year drama, dismissing them as unhappy consultants and supporters of Martin\u2019s previous rivals for DNC leadership.<\/p>\n

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Kansas Democratic Party Chair Jeanna RePass described calls for the first-term chair to step down as \u201cridiculous and dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is dangerous for Democrats to be playing politics with our leadership when these elections are five and a half months away,\u201d she said. \u201cThe American people are counting on us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Janet Kleeb of Nebraska, who leads her state party and the DNC\u2019s association of state committees, said the fighting \u201cis nuts.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t had a single chair come to me saying I think Ken needs to resign,\u201d she said. \u201cKen was elected by the DNC members to do a four-year term, and he has not violated any of our rules or bylaws where there would be a two-thirds vote, right? Because that\u2019s what it would take to remove the chair.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kleeb added, \u201cThese reports are such distraction.\u201d<\/p>\n

The long-awaited postelection autopsy said Kamala Harris \u201cwrote off rural America\u201d during the 2024 presidential campaign and failed to attack Trump with sufficient \u201cnegative firepower,\u201d among other key findings.<\/p>\n

Martin shared the 192-page report only after facing intense internal pressure from Democratic operatives. He originally promised to release the autopsy even before taking over the committee last year, only to keep it under wraps because he worried it would interfere with Democrats\u2019 focus on the November midterms.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t want to create a distraction,\u201d Martin wrote on Substack. \u201cIronically, in doing so, I ended up creating an even bigger distraction. And for that, I sincerely apologize.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although the autopsy criticizes Democrats\u2019 focus on \u201cidentity politics,\u201d it sidesteps some of the most controversial elements of the 2024 campaign. The report does not address former President Joe Biden\u2019s decision to seek reelection, the rushed selection of Harris to replace him after he dropped out or the party\u2019s acrimonious divide over the war in Gaza.<\/p>\n

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Kinnard reported from Columbia, South Carolina.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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