Jaime Harrison deserves an award for his spin. Unbelievable.

Jaime Harrison, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, wrote a 2,600-word memo to party members last week that pointed to down-ballot triumphs and declared, “Democrats beat back global headwinds that could’ve turned this squeaker into a landslide.”

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In his memo to D.N.C. members, Mr. Harrison boasted that Mr. Trump’s margin of victory in the popular vote ranked “44th out of 51 elections since 1824.” “This is the narrowest margin for a Republican since 1968, excluding the two times Republicans lost the popular vote and won the Electoral College,” Mr. Harrison wrote.

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Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the House Democratic leader, wrote in a statement recently that his caucus had “defied political gravity,” a reference to the newly released “Wicked” movie that was soon echoed by Senator Amy Klobuchar, the Minnesota Democrat.

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The Harris campaign talking points spend more time on the Trump campaign’s advertising attacking Ms. Harris on transgender issues than on any other topic. Eleven bullet points explain why the campaign did not go on the air with its own ad responding to Mr. Trump.

“Most voters found the ads troubling, particularly the idea that tax dollars are funding these surgeries,” the document states. “They were quick to say, however, that this was not the most important issue to them, impacted a small number of people and felt it was overblown and overly political.”

Then there are the sometimes tone-deaf solicitations for more money from Democratic donors.

A November email from the Harris campaign under the subject line “Good news and bad news” included the bad news — Mr. Trump won the election — and the good news: The recipient of the email had an opportunity to give $50 to “hold Trump accountable these next four years.”

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Democrats without a direct relationship with the Harris campaign have been more likely to declare that the election results were a disaster.