Trump emphasizes voter ID law CNN
After the war with Iran, Trump said the next most important issue for his administration is passing voter ID legislation — and that it could be key to his endorsement in the contentious Texas Senate runoff.
Trump has said he’ll soon make a choice between Sen. John Cornyn, the incumbent, and state Attorney General Ken Paxton, who’s been pushing the SAVE America Act.
“I’m making a decision fairly shortly, but I want and then I feel very strongly that we have to have the full and complete SAVE America Act, OK? I want the SAVE America Act. It is more important than everything else we’re working on other than the war,” he told Bash.
Trump suggested he needs assurances that both candidates would support the legislation.
“I’ve got to have the assurance of — you have a big story here come to think of it, but I’m just telling you — uh, I like John Cornyn, get along with him well. Get along with both of them very well. But we have go in with the SAVE America Act,” he said.
“We have to have voter ID. We have to have proof of citizenship. We have to have no mail-in ballots except the military, illness, disability and travel. We have to have no men in women’s sports — I added two things, and we have to have no transgender operations for youth,” he added, reiterating two additional two demands that he posted on Truth Social Thursday.
In addition to requiring voter ID to vote in federal elections, the bill would mandate documentary proof of US citizenship to register to vote in federal elections.
Trump also repeated his demands that the Senate eliminate the filibuster to get the legislation passed.
“The Senate has to act on it. The House on it. And I don’t want the watered down one — that doesn’t mean anything. I want the one that just told you, five things,” he said.
Cornyn supports the bill but has refused to say whether he personally would vote to change Senate rules in order to pass it.
“There’s not the votes in the Republican conference to change those rules,” he told CNN ahead of the primary.
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