Missing DNC autopsy section blames Bidenomics, consultants for Harris-Walz loss

Democrats withheld a section of their 2024 election autopsy that concluded President Joe Biden’s massive spending agenda failed to help key constituencies such as Black and Hispanic voters.

As a result, those constituencies failed to support the Kamala Harris-Tim Walz ticket, according to a New York Times report on the deleted section of the autopsy.

Heartlander News previously reported on the abridged release of the report, which warned it could take Democrats as long as a decade to recover from the loss, in which Donald Trump won the popular vote and all of the swing states.

The newly revealed section, which the New York Times published in full, blames the disconnect on “the senior staff, the media strategists, the pollsters, the digital consultants.”

“An emerging critique of Democratic decision-making is there are too many people who have become generationally wealthy off politics and drive too much of the decision-making within the ecosystem,” wrote report author Paul Rivera, who claimed Democrats suppressed the full report.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin told the New York Times he never received this section of the report.

Bidenomics to blame

Bidenomics figured prominently in the autopsy.

The Biden administration enacted about $3.6 trillion in major spending through three separate pieces of legislation that were intended to help ordinary Americans.

The American Rescue Plan cost $1.9 trillion, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act cost about $1.2 trillion, and the Inflation Reduction Act included roughly $500 billion in spending, for a combined total of about $3.6 trillion.

But the simple math, the article argues, helps explain why many voters remained dissatisfied.

A Federal Reserve chart paints a picture of massive government spending that failed to deliver the expected economic gains.

From 2021 to 2025, the economy grew from just under $22 trillion to about $23.5 trillion in constant dollars — an increase of roughly $1.6 trillion, far less than the $3.6 trillion in spending.

In other words, Biden launched one of the largest domestic stimulus efforts in U.S. history outside of World War II, yet GDP increased by less than the cost of the spending. For the same amount of money, each American could have received about $11,000, or roughly $34,000 for the average family.

Most importantly, according to the DNC’s own internal review, Bidenomics failed to persuade voters that their lives had improved.

The report said the committee’s post-election research found black voters were frustrated with both the party and its leadership “as it relates to jobs, unemployment, and home ownership.”

“They expressed how the economy, and Bidenomics in particular, was not working for them,” Rivera said.

That disconnect was central to the loss.

“The highest levels of 2024 decision making misunderstood the mood and practicalities facing everyday America,” the report noted. “They missed important signals about why people were frustrated with Democrats, who seemed not to appreciate or understand their situation.”

The criticism echoes a longstanding conservative complaint about modern government spending.

Greenhouse grift

Large federal programs often enrich the people administering them more than the people they are intended to help.

One of the most prominent examples cited since the election is the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund created under Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act.

The fund was promoted as a way to help low-income and disadvantaged communities. Critics argue it instead operated as a vehicle that benefited politically connected organizations.

Before the administration ended, EPA Special Advisor Brent Efron said of the rush to distribute the money: “It truly feels we’re on the Titanic and we’re throwing gold bars off the edge.”

The Trump administration said $20 billion in taxpayer funding went to organizations led by politically connected individuals, including former Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.

The administration also said at least a dozen former Obama and Biden administration officials worked for organizations that received funding through the program.

One recipient, the Coalition for Green Capital, received $5 billion. It is now embroiled in a legal dispute with the Trump administration over $2.7 billion it routed to Wall Street firms during the final days of the Biden administration, as reported by Heartlander News.

The Trump administration also said the coalition made 71 new hires, 20% of whom earned more than $450,000 annually.

According to the deleted section of the DNC report, salaries approaching $500,000 a year can create a disconnect that affects messaging and coalition-building.

“When decision makers are completely disconnected from these experiences, it makes it very difficult to fashion a message or a plan to pull people in,” the report said.