My short and quick postmortem at 6am:
I haven't gone in-depth on the numbers yet, and probably won't for a couple days, so this is mainly based on vibes and what I saw last night.
I think two things were very clear last night, minorities went more for Trump than was expected, especially Hispanics, and Harris was an awful candidate. Not Hillary awful, as her problem was being incredibly unlikable, but not having a platform other than 'orange man bad and banning abortion bad.'
People like Gavin Newsom and Pete Buttigieg are probably kicking themselves for not being more assertive in getting themselves into the race when it was clear Biden was not the answer and Harris was elevated with no fight by anyone. I'm not saying Newsom would have done much better as he is just as far left as Harris, but at least he would have had a platform that made sense and that he could eloquently defend. What the Dems needed was a moderate, relatively youthful candidate who was actually able to use charisma and intelligence to get his policies across. That to me is Buttigieg.
Dems have some tough choices to make between now and 2028. They have presented some pretty bad candidates since Obama and they need to take a step back and wonder why that is. I suspect we'll see Newsom/Buttigieg/Shapiro going at it in 2028.
Edit: Harris also shot herself in the foot by the absolute lack of (non-softball) interviews. But it seems clear now she avoided them for a reason: she's not good at them. I cannot stress what charisma can do for a candidate, just look at Trump.
