Fmr. GOP House Staffer: Cracking Down on Mail-In Ballots ‘Hurts Republicans Too’

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BARDELLA: "Yeah, the irony here is actually this hurts Republicans, too. Every time he comes out against mail-in voting, you have the other side, the political side of the Republican Party going, 'Okay, but we really want people to vote and vote by mail. A lot of our voters vote by mail.' I‘m old enough to remember when I was a Republican, we actually won many elections because we had an advantage on the mail-in voting. We were really, really good at the absentee ballot chasing, at the mail-in identification, and getting those people to turn out and vote. It was a huge advantage structurally for the Republican Party in elections. And he has single-handedly decimated it. Every time he does this, Democrats in Congress who are working on the midterms are like, 'Thank God. Make it harder, make it more confusing, make Republicans doubt the process so they have a harder time to participate in the process.' And oh, by the way, the idea that the USPS is equipped to do this, let me tell you something, the postmaster general just last week testified before Congress that they might run out of money by October. They are not equipped to do this job."