A handful of House Republicans have flooded social media and brought a MAGA influencer to Capitol Hill in a pressure campaign for Senate Majority Leader John Thune to move forward on passing their voter ID bill with a simple majority.
President Donald Trump even pressed Thune specifically to get the bill passed during the State of the Union address. “I’m asking you to approve the SAVE America Act,” he said during his Tuesday night address. “The cheating is rampant in our elections. … We have to stop it, John. We have to stop it.”
Without the 60 votes needed to pass the measure in the Senate, one option the bill’s advocates believe they can use to move forward would be to force Democrats to engage in a so-called talking filibuster — essentially, forcing Democrats to occupy the floor and talk nonstop, until one side or the other backs down. Their bet is that Democrats would eventually give in.
