Dan Pfeiffer, former senior advisor to President Barack Obama, issued a dire warning for his party on the latest episode of “Pod Save America”: If Democrats can’t reverse their collapse among Latino voters, they may never win another election.

Pfeiffer’s comments were triggered by a closer look at the 2024 exit polls, which showed Kamala Harris not only losing traction among young voters and independents, but also hemorrhaging support from Hispanic Americans—a group long considered a reliable Democratic bloc.

“The main story of this is that Democrats are in a huge bit of trouble,” Pfeiffer said. “There’s no way to look at this without recognizing the massive scale of our problems.”

Since 2016, the shift has been seismic. According to Pfeiffer, Latinos have moved 17 points toward Republicans in just eight years. That’s not a temporary blip—it’s a generational realignment in progress.

And while Democrats still hold a slim edge in overall Hispanic support, that margin is quickly disappearing, particularly in states like Texas, Florida, Arizona, and Nevada—each of which carries massive electoral weight.

“Latinos are the fastest-growing population in the country,” Pfeiffer emphasized. “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.”

Former Vice President Kamala Harris, who lost significant ground to Trump among Hispanics, has become a symbol of the Democrats’ failure to connect with working-class voters. Exit polls showed her receiving just over half the support of newly registered young voters—compared to Trump’s surge in turnout and loyalty.

“If that trend continues, we’re in huge trouble,” Pfeiffer said bluntly. “Anyone who thinks we can just tinker around the edges and hope Trump gets unpopular again is rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.”

Pfeiffer’s co-hosts agreed that the party’s elite messaging, especially on culture war issues and economic policies, has alienated key voting blocs.

That sentiment was echoed by another former Obama advisor, David Axelrod, who pointed out that Democrats now overwhelmingly win among one group—Americans making more than $100,000 a year.

“You can’t win national elections that way,” Axelrod said after the 2024 results were in.

Democrats’ elite urban donor base may fund flashy campaigns, but those dollars aren’t resonating with the working-class Latino and youth voters who once powered their victories. The party that once claimed to be the voice of the little guy is now, in the words of its own leaders, out of touch with the very people it claims to represent.

Republicans, meanwhile, have embraced a populist message that appeals to young men, working-class families, and Latinos disillusioned by the cultural radicalism and economic stagnation of the left.

Trump’s America-first message on jobs, border security, faith, and family is connecting in a way Democrats can’t replicate with focus groups and consultants.

Pfeiffer’s solution? The party must ask “very hard questions.” But if they keep listening to consultants and MSNBC panels instead of working-class voters, they won’t like the answers they get.

The left is losing the Latino vote—and if they don’t course-correct fast, 2024 may not be their low point. It could be the beginning of the end.