Occam’s Razor Answer: The Republicans know this jamoke has all of the dirt on them as well.
How can he not? After all both Rs and Ds sit on the committees and he had total access to the Ds email accounts and servers. The Rs may not know *what* he has but they do not feel like putting it to the test.
As we are now learning, the NYT has been sitting on the Weinstein sex abuse scandal for at least 13 years having killed an expose by Sharon Waxman in 2004. So who could possibly doubt that the media and the Swamp have know about Awan and Co. for a long time and have kept it covered-up?