President Donald Trump campaign’s to influence the midterm elections is reaching a fever pitch, from FBI raids of Georgia election centers to posting conspiracy theories across his social media and using the Department of Justice to illegally access voter rolls. Now Trump has zeroed in on Congress.
On Tuesday, the Senate opened debate on the voter ID bill known as the SAVE America Act. The bill would require Americans to register to vote in person with documentary proof of citizenship — in most cases a birth certificate or passport. It narrowly passed the House on Feb. 11, a week after Trump called for Republicans to “nationalize voting.” It has little hope in the Senate unless Republicans go nuclear and kill the cloture rule that requires 60 votes to end debate of a bill, but the door for that extreme move is closed for now.
