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The Autopsy

2022/9/15
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The podcast explores how flawed assumptions made by political leaders about the electorate led to significant political disconnect. It begins with the 2013 GOP autopsy, which highlighted the party's need to connect with minority communities, especially Latino voters.

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It’s March 2013. The G.O.P., in tatters, issues a scathing report blaming its electoral failures on an out-of-touch leadership that ignores minorities at its own peril. Just three years later, Donald Trump proves his party dead wrong. Today, how certain assumptions took hold of both parties — and what they’re still getting wrong — heading into the midterm elections.