Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez expressed support for ending the Electoral College and complained about voters who are influenced by the “pulpit on Sunday.”

During a speech Wednesday at an event for Demand Justice, Perez argued in favor of abolishing the Electoral College and replacing it with a popular voting system.

“When you lose elections, you lose control of the ability to help people. We have won the popular vote in six out of the last seven elections, and we have been award the White House in four out of the last seven elections,” Perez said.

“I wish I could say we’re not going to have another election where a person loses the popular vote but wins the White House,” he added.

Perez then attacked voters who are influenced by Christianity, Fox News, and the National Rifle Association.

“They’ve had a big orchestra for some time and they’ve got a megaphone to amplify, whether it’s Sinclair at a local level, Fox at a national level. I’ve learned this from the outreach we’ve done at the DNC,” Perez said.

“Why are we penetrating, they ask. And I had someone in northwestern Wisconsin tell me, ‘You know what? For most of the people I know, their principal sources of information are Fox News, their NRA newsletter and the pulpit on Sunday,” he added.

The DNC chairman then suggested that Democrats message won’t resonate with voters who go to church on Sunday’s and watch Fox News.

“And it should come as a surprise to no one that our message doesn’t penetrate. It should come as a surprise to no one that that person has elevated the issue, of course, to the top because that person on the pulpit is saying, ‘Ignore everything else that this person has done and is doing. We have to focus on one issue in Roe versus Wade.’ And people buy it because that’s their only source,” he added.

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Perez then complained that four of the nine Justices currently sitting on the Supreme Court were appointed by two presidents — Donald Trump and George W. Bush — who did not win the popular vote in their presidential elections.

“As we have this conversation, we need to make sure we’re also talking to our colleagues and friends in the progressive movement who are talking about things like the national popular vote,” Perez said.

Earlier this year, Perez falsely claimed that the Electoral College is “not a creation of the Constitution.”

Article II of the U.S. Constitution states: “Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress.”

Perez has no earthly idea about the Electoral College, yet he wants it abolished because he’s apparently still upset that President Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.