"He should resign": DNC chair Ken Martin's stock plummets on Capitol Hill over 2024 autopsy

Democratic National Committee chair Ken Martin is facing a surge of anger and even some calls to resign from congressional Democrats following the release of the DNC's 2024 election autopsy on Thursday. Why it matters: The chaotic handling of the report builds on concerns among Democrats about Martin's leadership and the DNC's anemic fundraising numbers compared to its GOP counterpart. "He should resign," Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) told Axios, citing "his lack of leadership" and saying it is "utterly nuts it took us this long to release the autopsy." In a radio interview Thursday, Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wisc.) said in response to a caller who argued Martin should be replaced: "I agree. ... Having what we have right now is not doing it." Rep. Marc Veasey (D-Texas) told Semafor that "there doesn't seem to be a plan to turn things around and the clock is ticking ... I believe it's time for him to move on." Driving the news: The DNC released what it says was its full, unredacted 2024 autopsy after months of pressure on Martin, who had initially signaled he would not release it. Martin said in a Substack post accompanying the report that he is "not proud of this product; it does not meet my standards and it won't meet your standards." The report contains errors and self-correcting annotations, and it lacks a concluding section on what went wrong in 2024, per Axios' Alex Thompson and Holly Otterbein. Martin wrote in his post that he "didn't want to create a distraction. Ironically, in doing so, I ended up creating an even bigger distraction. And for that, I sincerely apologize." What they're saying: Rep. Sean Casten (D-Ill.) told Axios he "does not regret" his decision to back former Wisconsin Democratic Party chair Ben Wikler for the DNC chairmanship over Martin last year. "I just think the whole thing is odd, saying we're going to this thing and we'll release it, and then you don't release it and then you do release it, it doesn't give ...

Original source: Axios