In the newly released chapter, Rivera addresses the former president’s decision. Rivera told the Times he personally delivered the chapter in a binder to Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin in January. If the DNC had received the chapter in question from Rivera, it “would have released it with the rest of the report,” Martin said. Some Democrats thought the original report failed to draw any meaningful conclusions about where the party went wrong in 2024. After the Times released Rivera’s missing chapter, some political analysts said the new document suffers from many of the same problems that plagued the publicly released version of the report.