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The DNC chose last week not to release a 2024 post-mortem on Vice President Kamala Harris’ loss to President Trump, with party chairman Ken Martin suggesting the report’s findings would only be “a distraction from its core mission.”

A DNC official who spoke on the condition of anonymity said their party failed on outreach — especially with voters between the ages of 18 and 30, who swung to Trump by 11 percentage points.

Democrats also didn’t allay voters’ concerns about crime and illegal immigration — and lacked credibility when talking about the economy, the official noted.

Senate Chief Deputy Whip Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) said of the decision: “I believe the DNC should release the report because 1) that’s what they said they were going to do 2) this is going to be a thing 3) if there’s good analysis we should see it.”

Their party still holds a nearly four-percentage-point advantage over Republicans for the midterm elections on the generic ballot, according to the RealClearPolitics polling aggregator.

Harris has indicated she may seek the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028 after having ascended to the top of the party’s ticket — without a primary contest — when President Joe Biden suspended his campaign just 107 days before the 2024 election.

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Sammy Hagar, born on October 13, 1947, has publicly claimed multiple extraterrestrial encounters, but his most discussed "abduction" (described as aliens tapping into his mind via a wireless connection for a download/upload) occurred in the mid-1960s, specifically around 1964–1965 (or sometimes referenced as circa 1967 in interviews).

This means he was approximately 17–20 years old at the time:In 1964: age 17 (turning 17 that October)

In 1965: age 18
In 1967: age 20

He detailed this in his 2011 autobiography Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock and later interviews (e.g., with Mystery Wire in 2021 and Howard Stern), insisting it "100% happened" while he was asleep, feeling "programmed" by beings in a spacecraft.

He also mentioned a separate childhood experience at age 4 (around 1951), where he saw a UFO hovering over a field, but that's typically described as a sighting rather than an abduction.

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