If there’s one thing you can always count on Donald Trump to do, it’s throw his staff under the bus should they dare try to sanitize the last thing he said that wasn’t exactly constitutional. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was attempting to play down Trump’s suggestions of nationalizing the midterm elections, before Trump promptly doubled down on a podcast.
Republicans have been trying to pass a bill called the SAVE (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility) Act for years. The act would generally mean that before you can vote in the U.S., you’d have to show proof of citizenship at the voting booth. Every single time, it has hit a stumbling block from Democrats, who have remained adamant that it amounts to voter suppression.
