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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., was pressed on CNN Sunday as to why he considered voter ID legislation<\/a> to be “voter suppression” despite Democratic victories in states with enforced ID laws.<\/p>\n

“State of the Union” host Dana Bash asked Jeffries about the Democratic Party’s opposition<\/a> to the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which would require people to present photo identification before voting, despite mass support from members of both parties for voter ID laws.<\/p>\n

Jeffries insisted that even states like New York already have voter identification requirements and claimed the SAVE Act was an attempt by the Republican Party to rig elections.<\/p>\n

THIS SENATE DEMOCRAT WANTS VOTER ID FOR HIS CAMPAIGN EVENTS \u2014 BUT NOT FEDERAL ELECTIONS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“The question is that what Republicans are trying to do is to engage in clear and blatant voter suppression,” Jeffries said. “They know that if there\u2018s a free and fair election in November, they\u2018re going to lose. In fact, Republicans have been losing every single election since Donald Trump was sworn in January of last year, including most recently, decisively in Texas. And of course, losing all across the country up and down the ballot in the November off-year elections in places like New Jersey or Virginia [or] New York.”<\/p>\n

“I mean, Virginia is a\u00a0good example,” Bash said. “They have a\u00a0requirement to show your ID, and Democrats won very, very\u00a0handily across the way.\u00a0So why not maybe even just take\u00a0that off the table and say,\u00a0okay, maybe not a passport or a\u00a0birth certificate, but show ID?”<\/p>\n

FETTERMAN EXPECTS DHS SHUTDOWN AMID PARTISAN FUNDING FEUD, BREAKS WITH DEMOCRATS ON VOTER ID<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“Well, first of all, every\u00a0state is empowered to be able to\u00a0make the decision on their own,\u00a0and we completely and totally\u00a0support that. What Donald Trump\u00a0wants to do is try to\u00a0nationalize the election.\u00a0Translation: steal it, and we\u2018re\u00a0not going to let it happen,” Jeffries said.<\/p>\n

The congressional leader also accused President Donald Trump of trying to rig the midterm elections through Republican gerrymandering efforts and attempts to federalize the National Guard.<\/p>\n

“This is going to be a\u00a0free and fair election. It\u2018s\u00a0going to be conducted like every\u00a0other election, where states and\u00a0localities have the ability to\u00a0administer the laws,” Jeffries said.<\/p>\n

CHUCK SCHUMER UNDER FIRE AFTER BRAZENLY CALLING VOTER ID ‘JIM CROW 2.0’<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Fox News Digital<\/a> reached out to Jeffries’ office for comment.<\/p>\n

Several other Democratic politicians have accused the SAVE Act of being a form of voter suppression after House Republicans reintroduced the bill last week.<\/p>\n

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., went as far as to suggest that the SAVE Act was a “Jim Crow-era” law.<\/p>\n

“I have said it before and I’ll say it again, the SAVE Act would impose Jim Crow-type laws to the entire country and is dead on arrival in the Senate,” Schumer said last week. “It is a poison pill that will kill any legislation that it is attached to\u2026The SAVE Act is reminiscent of Jim Crow-era laws<\/a> and would expand them to the whole of America. Republicans want to restore Jim Crow and apply it from one end of this country to the other. It will not happen.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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