The point of the gathering was simple. Every speaker insisted that although exit polls showed that Donald Trump won 29 percent of the Hispanic vote, as opposed to Mitt Romney’s 27 percent in 2012, they were all wrong. The speakers agreed that the real figure for Hispanics who went for Mr. Trump was around 18 percent.

These people, who are all zomg great Hispanic voter tidal wave pimps, just undercut their entire case and pulled the rug from under their whole hustle. Just presume their statistics are right. What it would mean is that Trump did worse among Latinos than did Mitt Romney, yet Trump won. Proving that Latino voters don't much matter.

If they were going to lie, they would have done better to lie the Hispanic vote for Trump upward, in light of "success has a thousand fathers" axiom.