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Democracy Dies in Darkness

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Why did the party lose in ’24? Neither Jill Biden’s memoir nor the DNC’s postmortem has the answer.

June 15, 2026 at 12:23 p.m. EDTToday at 12:23 p.m. EDT

Illustration of Joe Biden walking across the stripes of an American flag that are tumbling away as he passes.

(Illustration by Kat Rudell Brooks/The Washington Post; Oliver Contreras/For The Washington Post)

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Doug Sosnik, a senior adviser to President Bill Clinton from 1994 to 2000, is a counselor to the Brunswick Group.

Jill Biden had the chance to come clean. She could’ve used her new memoir, “View From the East Wing,” to write about the former first family’s role in allowing Donald Trump to return to the White House. Instead, the public has learned that the Bidens live in an alternate universe in which they made no mistakes and the country isn’t paying for their decisions.

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