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PFEIFFER: “ But so, in 2016, Hillary Clinton won 70% of Latino vote. Kamala Harris won 54%. It’s a 16-point drop. And then we — you would like to think that gender, you know, that this is all about men. It’s not all about men. Latinas moved 17 points in eight years. Latino men went 14 points in eight years. There is no path to the — Latinos are the fastest-growing population in the country. They are particularly politically powerful because of how their — how the population is distributed in in electoral-rich Sunbelt states like Texas, Florida, Arizona, Nevada, etc., and so they’re becoming more of the electorate and we are losing more of them at a very fast rate. Like, if that trend continues, there is no path to Democrats winning elections. And so we have to take that — like, everyone was telling themselves stories about that maybe 2020 was an aberration, because Trump made gains there, because of Covid. Like, there was big talk about Covid. This is something bigger than that and we have to address that.”
(via RealClearPolitics)