Former Obama senior advisor Dan Pfeiffer fretted on “Pod Save America” Friday’s episode that “Democrats are in a huge bit of trouble” with Latino voters.

DAN PFEIFFER, POD SAVE AMERICA: The main story of this is that Democrats are in a huge bit of trouble. There’s no way to look at this without recognizing the massive scale of our problems. And you can kind of tell yourself that things might be kind of okay by looking at just the shift from 20 to 24. But if you really want to assess where we are as a party, you have to look at the shift from 2016 to 2024. And it is particularly true with Latino voters. Or 2012. Even with Latino voters, actually, is the one group where Hillary Clinton did better than Obama. Two points better. But so in 2016, Hillary Clinton won 70% of Latino vote. Kamala Harris won 54%. It’s a 16-point drop. And you would like to think that this is all about men. It’s not all about men. Latinos moved 17 points in eight years. Latino men went 14 points in eight years. There is no path to… Latinos are the fastest growing population in the country. They are particularly politically powerful because of how the population is distributed in electoral-rich sunbelt states like Texas, Florida, Arizona, Nevada, et cetera. And so they are becoming more of the electorate, and we are losing more of them at a very fast rate. If that trend continues, there is no path to Democrats winning elections. And so we have to take that… Everyone was telling themselves stories that maybe 2020 was an aberration because Trump made gains there because of COVID. There was big talk about COVID. This is something bigger than that, and we have to address that.

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