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David McCormick: “You can't win elections if you start down 500,000 votes on…”

Featuring: David McCormick, Republican | U.S. Senate, Pennsylvania

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In other words, we have to get voter registration up in key communities in Pennsylvania, and we have to fight and win the absentee ballot fight. You can't win elections if you start down 500,000 votes on election Day. on election Day. So that's number one. Two, you got to put forward candidates that can win the primary. And this is tough because we got lots of different parts of our conservative party, our Republican Party. (19:55–20:00)

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