Republican conservative pundit Scott Jennings weighed in on the matter of the SAVE America Act and the filibuster, along with the general situation surrounding voter ID and like matters during a contentious conversation with Kaitlan Collins, dropping truth bombs of the sort sure to anger Democrats across the country.
Speaking on the SAVE America Act, which would require every person looking to register to vote in federal elections to provide documentation proving their U.S. citizenship and would also require voters to present a valid ID when casting a ballot, Jennings said that the majority of Republicans are in favor of the bill.
“Well, the vast majority of Republicans in this country are for it. It’s true. He does have a problem with a few Republicans in the Senate, and it’s really up to him and the Senate leadership to try to find a way around it. The problem is, of course, in the Senate you need 60 votes to do anything, and I seriously doubt they’re ever going to get to that threshold,” Jennings explained in a now-viral clip of the conversation spreading on social media.
Jennings then brings up the topic of the filibuster. “That, of course, leads to this question about the filibuster. Seems unlikely to me they’re going to be able to change the filibuster rules. You wonder whether they could negotiate it down, take out some of the things that the Democrats don’t like, and get it down to something that maybe people could vote for, like specifically on the voter ID, which, look, everybody wants voter ID.”
The conservative commentator then brings up the fact that Trump is hardly the first president to care about election laws, bringing up former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and how the number one bill in the House under her leadership was a piece of legislation related to federal elections. “President Trump, by the way, is hardly the first political leader in this country recently to care about election laws,” he told Collins.
“In fact, when Nancy Pelosi was Speaker of the House, H.R. 1, was the number one bill in the House under Pelosi. It was an election bill that had to do with federalizing our elections,” he continued. “So both parties have had opinions about how to run elections in this country. It’s not unique to Donald Trump, but he certainly feels strongly about it.”
“And I can tell you this: every single Republican I know, just about, thinks it’s a good idea, and so I can see why the president’s touting it because his base absolutely wants it,” Jennings concluded, noting that, whatever Democrats claim, the bill is hugely popular with Republicans and will likely remain such given how common sense the provisions are.
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A commenter on the viral video clip pointed out, “Ever notice how they don’t complain about all the other ID requirements in our society? Government benefits, driving, airline travel, rental cars, hotels, purchase alcohol and cigarettes, medical care, and a thousand other things?”