Former Rep. David Jolly (R-Fla.) declared on Thursday that “there are crazy people” now working the Republican National Committee following the set up of Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump as its new co-chair.
“And it’s going to get worse,” Jolly predicted to MSNBC’s Katie Phang.
Lara Trump, who’s married to the previous president’s son Eric Trump, has known as for huge modifications in how Americans vote, advocating for single-day voting, paper ballots, the requirement of voter IDs and extra.
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Phang famous how Republicans are saying their plans “all out loud.”
“They don’t care who is listening,” she informed Jolly. “I mean, David, this is not funny.”
Jolly agreed and steered Lara Trump “does not understand the principles of federalism when it comes to administration of elections by the state.”
Republicans are pursuing these modifications, although, “to sow doubt in the minds of Republican voters about any part of the administration of an election so they have a fallback to blame should Donald Trump indeed lose,” mentioned Jolly, who left the GOP in 2018.
Conservatives additionally know “the more voters who vote, Democrats win, and the best case studies for that are our presidential elections where Republicans have only won one popular vote in the last 30 years,” he famous.
The GOP’s “extremist positions are simply out of touch and they lose to Democrats when voters actually have the right to exercise their franchise,” Jolly added.
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