I saw the interview and read his wording. It's also a nicer version of 'we lost cause of the ethnic vote' that sunk at least one Canadian separatist's political career when they lost the referendum in 1995.

It really only reinforces Republican view that they only lost because they didn't suppress the vote well enough in places like Florida.

There's a lot of equivalency that Republicans like to pull that Dems do it too etc etc but in this case there is none. Dem governors and state legislatures don't go around systematically limiting the rural white vote. I'm still waiting for an explanation of why Florida's Republican governor Rick Scott keeps dodging questions on why he eliminated several days of early voting which resulted in 4-5 hour lines in Democratic counties on election day.