It’s really only “news” because he said it out loud. We’ve known this for a long time, but they keep putting up this facade of “fairness” and “legitimate” votes to defend what they really want.
The way democracy is supposed to work is people vote for politicians who support policies they want. You either change your views to reflect what the people want, or you get voted out. The GOP doesn’t want to change, but they also don’t want to lose power. So the only avenue left is doing away with voting in the first place.