Former Democratic Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel blasted his party's recent election autopsy and the Bidens on Tuesday, saying both have damaged Democrats' brand.As Emanuel spoke on Katie Couric’s podcast, he stated, as he has before, about the many ways in which he said that Americans feel negatively about the Democratic Party because "we earned their disrespect" with far-left policy agendas."We let a border get out of control.When it came to public safety, we talked about defunding the police," he said.
"When it came to an ethnic group, we called them Latinx and nobody else in that group ever identified themselves that way.And then rather than worry about classroom excellence, we were worried about bathroom and locker room access."Couric asked him about the widely panned postmortem from the DNC purporting to explain why the Democrats lost in 2024, noting, "It didn’t really talk about the administration's stance on Israel and the war in Gaza and Joe Biden's age, which seems to be two big flashing red lights."RAHM EMANUEL WARNS DEMS HAVE BECOME PARTY OF 'PUNKS' WHO 'TALK DOWN TO PEOPLE' AND FRET OVER IDENTITY POLITICSRahm Emanuel, former Chicago mayor, has shredded recent Democratic Party leadership, ranging from culture-war politics to the 2024 autopsy and the failure to give the Bidens a "come to Jesus" moment early on.
(Getty Images)Emanuel recalled that he had joked that one could get a more thorough autopsy of the election from a literal coroner than from Democratic Party leadership who commissioned the postmortem analysis, adding, "It was a waste of money and a waste of time.""It just makes the Democrats look so feckless," Couric said."It's worse than feckless," Emanuel replied, saying that Biden very strongly implied that he would commit to being a one-term president who would serve as a transition to the next generation."The Oval Office is incredibly seductive and he got seduced, and the White House is incredibly insular and it was really a tight-knit grou...