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Paul Rivera, the author of the Democratic National Committee’s autopsy on why the party lost the 2024 presidential election, said the lengthy draft the DNC made public left out an important section, The New York Times reported on Monday.

Rivera told The Times he hand-delivered the chapter to DNC chairman Ken Martin in January, but Martin denies that ever happened.

“This alleged report section was not in any binder I reviewed,” Martin told the outlet.

“If we had this in May, we would have released it with the rest of the report,” he added.

The chapter, titled “What Happened In 2024,” which was published in full by the Times, pointed to former President Joe Biden’s decision to pursue reelection as well as the financial situation of Democratic campaign operatives as contributing factors to the party’s failure to win.

Rivera writes that Democrats’ better-than-expected performance in the 2022 midterms led them “to believe they were stronger than they actually were” and also prompted Biden to make the “consequential” call to run for a second term.

“Is there a single point of failure for 2024?” Rivera asked. “Perhaps it is a decision of the President to seek re-election instead of passing the torch, but Democrats do not have a time machine to go back and change his decision, and the particular circumstances of the 2023-2024 political landscape will likely never happen again.”

The passage also says that many of the people who worked at the highest levels of the party and the presidential campaign itself were either too wealthy or privileged to grasp the struggles of everyday Americans.

“They missed important signals about why people were frustrated with Democrats, who seemed not to appreciate or understand their situation,” the chapter reads.

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