Donald and a few RightWingNuts are trying to keep the hope alive on this naked attempt at voter suppression….
Even he knows it just is NOT gonna make the cut in Congress….
The SAVE America Act, which President Trump envisions as legislation that can both crack down on illegal immigrants voting and transgender surgeries, is not the type of bill that appears designed to pass into law. Democrats detest it, Republicans have few realistic options to maneuver around them to advance it, and the two sides have engaged in no serious negotiations.
Mr. Trump himself acknowledges the bill’s dismal prospects.
“Because of the rules of the Senate, it’s very hard for them to get the number” of votes needed, he lamented on Thursday.
Yet Mr. Trump is insisting on a monthslong public fight over the bill, and the hodgepodge of provisions he is demanding be added to it, while threatening to hold up other business. “THERE IS NOTHING THAT IS MORE IMPORTANT FOR THE U.S.A.,” he wrote on social media last month.
But even if the bill offers the president little hope of changing policy, it does offer an appealing political calculus: At a time when voters are deeply concerned about high prices amid his war with Iran, the fight over the legislation allows him to try to shift focus to more favorable ground for Republicans….
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Senate Republicans have tried to carry out his wishes through a series of amendments, each of which has failed.
Mr. Trump is quick to rattle off how well his favorite issues poll.
Voter ID? “Eighty-six percent with both Republicans and Democrats,” he said Thursday. (Polling shows that the number is probably overstated, though most voters in both parties support it.)
He has long signaled his plan to use issues such as illegal immigration and transgender athletes to his electoral advantage as the midterm elections drew nearer..
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Mr. Trump has long alleged that any election he loses or fears losing must be rigged. He asserted that Senator Ted Cruz of Texas “stole” a Republican primary victory from him in Iowa in 2016 and predicted, before he defeated Hillary Clinton that year to win the presidency, that the general election would be “rigged.” In the months before the 2020 election, trailing in the polls, he again predicted that he would be cheated out of a victory, and, after losing to Joseph R. Biden Jr., claimed the election had been stolen through widespread fraud, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary….
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And as he worries that Democrats will take the House, Mr. Trump has once again raised the specter of a rigged election in his push for the bill.
“The only ones that fight it are the Democrat leaders, because they want to cheat,” he said on Thursday.
One cost of the fight over the bill has been the loss of precious Senate floor time to advance other priorities. But Mr. Trump has never cared much about how the legislative branch operates. During his second term, the president has repeatedly opted to take actions via executive order rather than involving Congress…..
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