Well, huh.
Husted's amendment was meant to be clean as a whistle and totally unobjectionable.
🚨 WATCH: Senator Jon Husted outlines popular commonsense photo ID requirements to vote:
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 26, 2026
"All that's in this amendment is 5 forms of photo ID that people can list to vote."
Democrats are literally voting against this. pic.twitter.com/NetTdIwFzs
Absolutely something the American people across the board support.
CBS News Poll: Do you favor or oppose requiring people to show valid photo ID before they are permitted to vote?
— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) March 19, 2026
🟢 Favor: 80%
🟤 Oppose: 20%
——
• Dem: 65-35 (+30)
• GOP: 95-5 (+90)
• Indie: 79-21 (+58)
• White: 80-20 (+60)
• Black: 80-20 (+60)
• Hispanic: 77-23 (+55)… pic.twitter.com/HDucLt4yoX
As well as the kind of thing Schumer and his minions have been screaming about, claimed they've offered, but never had, and then swore they would support if it came up.
So the GOP offered up the sacrificial lamb - there it was.
This seems like a reasonable enough requirement. Doesn't everyone have one?
You need a photo ID to buy a beer, board a plane, or enter a government building—but asking for one to protect the sanctity of a nationwide election is 'blocking progress'? This isn't about accessibility; it's about making the back door as wide as possible. 53 Senators just voted…
— ‏جمال‏ الŘاسي (@Nwfey90) March 26, 2026
...53 Senators just voted to keep the system vulnerable. If you fear a secure ballot, you fear the will of the people
There the Democrats went, every last one of them.
It's pretty bad when even CBS is calling you out on your craven behavior.
An amendment that would require voters to show photo identification to cast a ballot failed to advance in the Senate on Thursday, despite Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer saying last week that Democrats were not opposed to such a requirement. https://t.co/tJarTS30Bq
— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 26, 2026
Chuck tried to pull the Old Magoo 'Well, yeah, I said I would, but not like this.' No one was falling for it, not even one of the most liberal media networks out there.
An amendment that would require voters to show photo identification to cast a ballot failed to advance in the Senate on Thursday, despite Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer saying last week that Democrats were not opposed to such a requirement.
Guess not.
SPIN SPIN SPIN
...Schumer condemned the amendment on Thursday before the vote, arguing it would "impose the single strictest voter ID law in America."
"This radical amendment would toss out every single voter ID requirement in all 50 states for federal elections and put in an overly restrictive, one-size-fits-all approach," the New York Democrat said.
...Ahead of the vote, Husted called the amendment "clean, simple, straightforward," adding that there are "no additional restrictions, no tricks, no games, no prohibition on absentee voting."
Schumer said it would require people who vote by mail to include a photocopy of their ID with their ballot, which would eliminate the secrecy of how someone voted.
Husted accused Schumer of misrepresenting how the mail-in ballot process would work. He said voters would include a photo of their ID or the last four digits of their Social Security number on the outside of the secrecy envelope containing the ballot. The information would be validated to ensure that it's from a registered voter before separating it from the ballot, which would be counted separately, he said.
Corey Booker's well acquainted with the spin cycle.
...Several others have also come out in support of a voter ID bill in recent weeks.
When asked by CNN’s Kaitlan Collins whether he would support a clean voter ID bill, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., said, "Yes."
"And New Jersey has voter ID laws," Booker said. "I’ve got to show my driver’s license."
Still, Democrats blocked an amendment to the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act from Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, meant to put them on record for that position.
Senator Padilla is lying.
— Senate Republicans (@SenateGOP) March 26, 2026
Our voter ID amendment specifically includes veterans ID as an accepted form of ID to vote. pic.twitter.com/k2pvMRU8VX
Lies and more lies. Kind of par for the course.
So @TheDemocrats lied when they said they would vote for a clean Voter ID bill.... were not surprised.
— Zenmonkey (@Karmamonkey1776) March 26, 2026
The hypocrisy is kind of mind-numbing with these numbskulls.
Georgia Democrat @SenOssoff requires photo ID to meet him but just voted against commonsense photo ID requirements to vote.
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 26, 2026
Ossoff isn't working for Georgians. https://t.co/MEqlx9wLqb
So, have Democrats stepped on a rake here?
...The Senate voted 53-47 along party lines on a proposal to require photo ID when voting, falling short of the 60-vote threshold to attach it to Utah Sen. Mike Lee’s broader election reform bill. That underlying bill, the SAVE America Act, would already implement photo ID requirements — but the amendment vote on Thursday was meant to pressure Democrats by giving it a standalone vote.
Maybe another one, since they were so adamant about a 'stand-alone ID 'bill.
...Thune said Tuesday that Republicans would put Democrats on the spot on the issue after Schumer said last week that Democrats are not opposed to photo ID. Schumer said, "our objection as Democrats is not to a photo ID," as he railed against the SAVE America Act as "a naked attempt to rig our elections."
"This is an issue on which there is broad agreement with the public, and obviously we're going to give the Democrats an opportunity to vote on that one particular issue, and that is whether or not people ought to have to show some form of identification when they go to vote," Thune said.
But it's hard to believe Democrats could outdo and outbeclown themselves any more than they already have this week, what with performance theater carnival acts, raging against ICE's 'cruelty and chaos' in empty airport terminals...
Sen. Cory Booker:
— SpeedySMM (@speedysmm4547) March 24, 2026
“He takes the ICE bursting into schools and churches... bringing them to our airports!! Under the lie it will help!! It's an OUTRAGE...”
Funny how it looks so calm and empty behind him, though🤔pic.twitter.com/vG4B2EtHGX
...all the while pickin', grinnin' and feelin' 'serene' over the pain they keep causing American travelers and DHS employees like TSA agents.
Schumer 2025: “Every day gets better for [Democrats].”
— Ryan Wrasse (@RWrasse) March 11, 2026
Schatz 2026: “[Democrats] are very serene with what is going on.” pic.twitter.com/6ZCwk4uFXG
Maybe we'll get lucky, and they'll step on two rakes.
Beege ADDS: All this theater is just that - theater. If you all are unfamiliar with Data Republican, let me introduce you to her right now, as she flays Senate Majority Leader John Thune alive.
Hello Senator Thune,
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) March 25, 2026
Let's expose what you're really doing with "reconciliation."
You announced it yesterday, eleven months after the House passed the SAVE America Act. You're not trying to pass this bill. You're trying to kill it in a way you can blame on process.
Here's how…
Here's how we know:
Reconciliation requires the Senate parliamentarian to rule that provisions are "budgetary." Citizenship verification is not budgetary. Photo ID mandates are not budgetary. The parliamentarian will gut the bill. Then you'll shrug and say "we tried." We see through you.
Meanwhile, you WON'T use the tools that actually work:
Rule XIX limits each senator to two speeches per legislative day. Keep the Senate in continuous session, file cloture daily, and the filibuster exhausts in ~12-20 days. You dismissed it as "complicated." Because if you tried and succeeded, you'd have to actually pass the bill.
Harry Reid nuked the filibuster in 2013 when he wanted results.
Mitch McConnell changed Senate rules THREE times and canceled the August recess.
Chuck Schumer used reconciliation within months on a 50-50 Senate.
You have 53 seats. You've changed nothing, canceled nothing, and waited eleven months.
Now let's talk donors:
• Goldman Sachs: $150K to you - top H-1B user
• Google: $75K - lobbies against E-Verify
• Meta: $72.5K - Zuckerberg's FWD[.]us pushes mass immigration
• Wells Fargo: $90K - banks undocumented immigrants
Same corporations sponsor Punchbowl News, where you sit for "Fly Out Days" which nobody watches except Congress staffers and K Street lobbyists who pays premium bucks for legislative intelligence. Their reporter then telegraphs to the audience the SAVE Act "will ultimately fail."
Corporate money flows to you AND to the outlet that frames your inaction as inevitable.
We see the loop.
You called grassroots anger a "paid influencer ecosystem." YOU are the paid influencer. You take the wrong side of a 80% issue because you are indistinguishable from a K Street mouthpiece, and an ineffective one to boot who won't bend the rules to get anything passed.
What we want:
1. Force a real talking filibuster.
2. Stop hiding behind process.
3. Pass the SAVE America Act.
YOU will become the reason that we will have our butts kicked in midterms. Not Candace Owens, not Nick Fuentes, not anyone else. You and you alone, and all because you want to make the 200 or so viewers of Punchbowl Fly Out Days happy. You're living in a K Street information bubble, addicted to the comforts and praises of lobbyists masquerading as journalists. You mistake the steak and martini dinners you get invited to as your own constituents.
You are not "moderate." The SAVE America Act has 98% support among Republicans. Name one other thing that has 98% support. You are an extreme minority who prides himself on being a calm leader, when in reality you are well in the running for the most ineffective Majority leader of all time.
Prove me wrong. Do the bare modicum of effort. Not symbolic. Actual effort. Cancel the recess. Get SAVE America Act passed.
This woman is a national treasure, and we're so lucky to have her.
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