Author of controversial 2024 Democratic party review says key chapter was left out of release draft

The Democratic National Committee didn’t release a critical draft chapter as part of its report on the state of the party after the failures of the 2024 election, according to the report’s author.Democratic strategist Paul Rivera told The New York Times that he hand-delivered a binder containing the chapter, entitled “What Happened in 2024,” to DNC Chair Ken Martin during a meeting in January.The chapter, which Rivera shared in full with the paper, questions Joe Biden’s decision to seek reelection, scrutinizes how the party lost support among voters of color and takes aim at the influence of allegedly out-of-touch political consultants that got “generationally wealthy off politics.”“In every other aspect of professional life, when you fail, you look back to understand what went wrong — not