Ex-Obama senior advisor Dan Pfeiffer warned on Friday that there’s “no path” for Democrats to win elections except they handle their quickly declining Latino vote.
Pfeiffer introduced this up with former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau on the “Pod Save America” podcast as they regarded over 2024 election exit knowledge which confirmed former Vice President Kamala Harris shedding floor with each younger voters and minority voters.
Pfeiffer added that the Democratic Social gathering had been shedding Latino voters since 2016.
“The main story of this is that Democrats are in a huge bit of trouble,” Pfeiffer mentioned. “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 2020 to 2024. 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.”
He identified that Latinos have shifted 17 factors in the direction of Republicans since 2016. Whereas Democrats nonetheless took a majority of Hispanic voters, Pfeiffer confirmed concern over this development.
“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,” Pfeiffer mentioned.
Concerning younger voters, Pfeiffer identified that Harris solely acquired about half of recent voters in comparison with President Donald Trump.
“If that trend continues, we’re in huge trouble,” Pfeiffer mentioned. “The message I take from this is anyone who thinks that we can get away with just tinkering around the edges just hoping that Donald Trump becomes unpopular or they nominate some yahoo in 2028 or we’re going to ride the wave of tariffs and inflation to a narrow House victory is just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. We have to be willing to ask very hard questions.”
Because the 2024 election, different former Obama officers have criticized the Democratic Social gathering for failing to attraction exterior the elite.
“The only group they won among – Democrats won among – were people who make more than $100,000 a year,” former Obama advisor David Axelrod mentioned in November. “You can’t win national elections that way.”
