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A Senate Republican revealed that even if President Donald Trump\u2019s flagship election integrity legislation had the votes to pass, there\u2019s not enough time to actually have it take effect for the upcoming midterm elections.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act has increasingly become a problem for congressional Republicans<\/a> desperate to move onto other must-pass legislation. But Trump has consistently demanded they find a way to pass it, particularly in the Senate, by any means necessary.<\/p>\n

But Republicans aren\u2019t unified behind the bill, and Democrats unanimously despise it. Even if it got 60 votes, which is an unlikely scenario, Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., contended it wouldn\u2019t have an impact in time for November.<\/p>\n

GOP INFIGHTING OVER TRUMP’S VOTER ID BILL ERUPTS AS TOP SENATOR CALLS STRATEGY ‘FANTASY’<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“Unless they do the work to get to the 60 votes, they know it\u2019s dead, and so all this is theater,” Tillis told the Raleigh, North Carolina-based News & Observer.<\/a><\/p>\n

Tillis, who was one of four Senate Republicans to vote against attaching the legislation to an immigration enforcement funding bill last month and was called out by Trump, is familiar with pushing for voter ID laws, which is only a portion of what the proposed SAVE America Act<\/a> would do. During his time as House speaker in the North Carolina legislature, he was a major proponent of enacting the state\u2019s voter ID.<\/p>\n

But doing so takes time and money, he argued.<\/p>\n

‘IT’S A MESS’: GOP TURNS ON HOUSE CONSERVATIVES AS VOTER ID BLOCKADE STALLS TRUMP’S AGENDA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“And honestly, here in North Carolina, or in virtually any state, the ability, if we go back to when we implemented voter ID in North Carolina, it took a year to get everything in place with adequate funding,” Tillis said.<\/p>\n

The current version of the SAVE America Act doesn\u2019t directly allocate funding to states to implement voter ID or its several other provisions. That is, in part, why the legislation wouldn\u2019t work in the budget reconciliation process, as Trump has called for and House Republicans are mulling, which requires provisions to have a direct budgetary impact and not be policy only.<\/p>\n

Tillis pitched the scenario that if everything worked out, it would eat into early voting periods or outright snuff them.<\/p>\n

“Let\u2019s assume you only allow early voting in the month of October,” Tillis said. “Then do you honestly believe that we can have this thing up in 50 states? There\u2019s no funding. There\u2019s no specific implementation instructions.”<\/p>\n

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“It\u2019s become a joke, in my mind, for somebody that\u2019s actually implemented voter ID law, how anybody can look the American voters in the eye and suggest that it could be implemented in time without just causing a huge impact on the elections, and ironically undermine the confidence of it,” he continued.<\/p>\n

Still, it hasn\u2019t stopped a cohort of congressional Republicans<\/a>, notably Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., from demanding that the Senate take action on the bill.<\/p>\n

And Trump is determined to strong-arm Republicans into passing it, demanding they nuke the filibuster<\/a>, attach the SAVE America Act to must-pass legislation, or fire the Senate rules referee.<\/p>\n

Following the Supreme Court\u2019s decision to allow mail-in ballots<\/a> to be counted after Election Day, he renewed his call.<\/p>\n

“In light of the tremendous loss in the Supreme Court today concerning Voter\u2019s Rights, and the fact that \u2018people\u2019s\u2019 votes are allowed to be counted LONG AFTER an Election is over, it is more important than ever to pass THE SAVE AMERICA ACT,” Trump said on Truth Social.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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