June 11, 2025 What Analyses of the 2024 Election Are Getting Wrong Postelection autopsies are missing the forest for the trees. Ad Policy Former Vice President Kamala Harris. (Mario Tama / Getty) As Democrats sift through the wreckage of 2024, they’re starting to conduct a familiar procedure: the post-election autopsy. Armed with exit polls, turnout data, and demographic breakdowns, analysts are dissecting Kamala Harris’s defeat with surgical precision.