Trump Defied The 2013 GOP Autopsy. So Was It A 'Failure'?
Seven years ago, Republicans wrote a plan for long-term electoral success. Then, President Trump won in 2016 without following some of its key tenets.
Just under eight years ago, Republicans were recovering from a stinging presidential election loss, after Mitt Romney lost to President Obama by 126 electoral votes.
And so the GOP produced a 2013 report that came to be known as the "autopsy," laying out how the party should move forward — most notably, that it should expand its outreach to communities of color, women and young voters.
Flash forward to this spring, when Romney marched in opposition to police brutality and declared that "Black lives matter."
A voter who had somehow missed all political news from the last seven years might look at Mitt Romney marching with Black
