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WASHINGTON \u2014 Dem New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker on Sunday said he\u2019s been sick and tired of his party\u2019s leadership for \u201ca long time\u2019\u2019 \u2014 revealing his disgust after its release of an error-riddled autopsy on its 2024 election debacle.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe [Democratic National Committee] has got to do a lot better if they\u2019re going to meet this moment in history,\u201d the liberal pol told CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Democratic Party desperately needs new leadership,\u201d he said. \u201cI have had frustrations \u2026 with the Democratic Party for a long time. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is going to make the Republicans gleeful is if we\u2019re talking about each other in the Democratic Party and not talking about the realities that Americans are facing,\u201d Booker said. <\/p>\n

The Garden State Democrat declined to give specifics when pressed about which leaders need to be replaced. He denied that he was talking about embattled Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York.<\/p>\n

Last week, the DNC faced an uproar after it was pressured into releasing a draft postmortem of the Democrats\u2019 disastrous 2024 election loss.<\/p>\n

The draft, which was compiled by veteran Democratic strategist Paul Rivera, was riddled with typos, missing sections, incorrect data and a lack of citations.<\/p>\n

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Progressives also raged that it mentioned nothing about the Israel-Hamas conflict and barely noted widespread internal consternation about former President Joe Biden\u2019s age.<\/p>\n

DNC Chairman Ken Martin, who resisted pressure to disclose the findings for months, admitted the draft wasn\u2019t \u201cready for primetime.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The release created headaches for Democrats and poured fuel on the fire of already simmering frustration with DNC management.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am tired of all this machination about party politics. We are in a crisis right now, millions of Americans losing their health insurance, their costs skyrocketing,\u201d Booker said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can damn well be sure that I\u2019m going to be talking about what our party needs to do to change,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Booker is up for reelection in November.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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