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A majority of voters support the SAVE America Act and want Congress to pass it before the midterms in November, a March Harvard CAPS/Harris poll found. The majority of respondents also support other election integrity requirements, like counting ballots within 24 hours after Election Day, removing noncitizens from the voter rolls, and even allowing states to share voting records with the Department of Homeland Security.
The Harvard CAPS/Harris poll is conducted monthly. Last month’s survey, conducted March 25-26, included 2,009 respondents identified as “registered voters.”
Much of leftist media outlets’ coverage surrounding the SAVE America Act — which would require documentary proof of citizenship when registering to vote and voter ID in federal elections — fearmongers that the legislation would essentially disenfranchise voters en masse by enacting these common-sense safeguards. The recent Harvard/Harris poll suggests that Americans aren’t as worried about that as the corporate press would have you think.
The poll found that an overwhelming majority of respondents — 68 percent — still support all the main provisions of the SAVE America Act, including 45 percent of Democrats and 90 percent of Republicans. Interestingly, 54 percent of respondents — including more than a third of Democrats — agree that it is more important to “do everything possible to stop voter fraud and illegal immigrants from voting” than it is to ensure that “eligible citizens aren’t denied the ability to vote.”
Nearly 60 percent of respondents want the SAVE America Act passed into law before the 2026 midterms. Despite Americans’ clear support for the SAVE America Act and their desire to see it through as soon as possible, John Thune and other RINO senators have only continued to slow-walk the legislation throughout the past month. --->READ MORE HERE
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A Capitol Hill source says Rep. Anna Paulina Luna’s assertion that John Thune is done with the election-integrity bill ‘is not true.’:
Senate Majority Leader John Thune has no intention of abandoning the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, a source familiar with the bill process told The Federalist.
On Monday afternoon, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., posted on her X account that Thune is washing his hands of the critical election integrity reform bill supported by the vast majority of Americans.
“Just so America knows, after two weeks in recess, John Thune is no longer considering the SAVE America Act,” Luna wrote.
The congressional source with knowledge of the situation told The Federalist on Monday evening that Luna’s comment “is not true.” He said the bill, which requires documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote and photo identification at the polls, is “still the pending business in the Senate.”
“We will be considering ICE and Border Patrol funding followed by FISA, all priorities of the president,” the congressional insider wrote in an email to The Federalist. “The senate can always return to SAVE after considering those items. We started debating it five weeks ago.”
‘If We Don’t Have Other Pressing Stuff’
Luna’s assertion seemed to have some supporting evidence.
An X post Monday by Punchbowl News’ Andrew Desiderio raised concerns that the SAVE America Act was doomed. Desiderio reported the Senate “is off the bill this week and may not return to it any time soon, if at all.” Thune reportedly told Punchbowl’s Laura Weiss that the Senate has “other pressing stuff” to take care of.
“If we don’t have other pressing stuff in front of us that has to get done … then we’ll see about getting that going,” Thune said, according to the reporter’s X post.
News: Thune does NOT commit to holding a vote to get back onto the SAVE America Act after the budget resolution & FISA reauthorization are done.
— Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) April 20, 2026
(Senate will come off of SAVE this week to pass the budget resolution; would require another vote)
“If we don’t have other pressing… https://t.co/aZI5tUyCw3
The Senate Majority Leader did, seemingly against the odds, bring the bill to the Senate floor — on St. Patrick’s Day — and ensured that it would at least receive a “full and robust debate”. The South Dakota Republican pulled a procedural lever to get around the “silent filibuster,” the Senate’s lazy practice of forestalling floor debate. So Republicans and Democrats spent the first several days delivering speeches, the right on the 80/20 issue that is voter ID, the left hyperbolically calling the election integrity reforms “Jim Crow 2.0.”
“Missing through more than a week of debate were the all-nighter speeches, marathon orations, and back-to-back lawmakers demanding floor time that some had hoped to see,” Roll Call reporter Savannah Behrmann wrote 10 days after the bill hit the floor.
Thune’s maneuver allows the Senate to take up other business and go back to the SAVE America Act. As long as it remains in play, there’s still a chance — remote as it may be — for enough Democrats feeling enough pressure to join Republicans in getting to the 60 votes needed to break cloture and then pass the bill by a simple majority vote.
‘John Thune is the Problem’ --->READ MORE HERE
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