The hosts of ABCs The View launched into a familiar tirade against election integrity this week, denouncing President Trumps SAVE America Act as voter oppression and even claiming that half the country would be blocked from casting a ballot if it becomes law.
According to Breitbart, the segment began when moderator Whoopi Goldberg complained about President Trumps decision to cancel a planned housing bill signing ceremony in order to keep pressure on Congress to move his preferred SAVE America Act. The legislation, already approved by the House and now stalled in the Senate, contains a slate of election reforms, most notably robust voter ID requirements that have long been championed by conservatives and opposed by the left.
Goldberg framed the Presidents move as a tantrum, asserting, He torpedoed the [housing] bill because he wants another bill signed. And it seems to me no one wants to sign this bill. Her remarks betrayed a shaky grasp of basic civics, as it is the president who signs legislation once Congress passes it, not no one, and the bill in question has already cleared one chamber of Congress, indicating that many elected representatives and the voters who sent them there do, in fact, support it.
Despite that reality, Goldbergs cohosts eagerly joined in to portray the SAVE America Act as a sinister plot to keep Americans away from the polls. Alyssa Farah Griffin insisted the bill doesnt have the votes, while Goldberg claimed it would force people to have ID when they come to vote. Nobody wants it, a line Joy Behar immediately echoed, saying, Nobody wants it.
Those sweeping assertions run directly counter to both legislative facts and public opinion. The House has already passed the measure, and its current roadblock in the Senate stems from a handful of left-leaning Republican senators who are withholding support as a political cudgel against the President, not from any broad-based rejection of the bills principles.
Outside the Beltway, voter ID remains one of the most popular election reforms in the country. Polling consistently shows that roughly 80 percent of Americans back basic voter ID requirements, meaning the hosts claim that no one wants such safeguards is not just exaggerated but demonstrably false.
Behar, whose commentary on President Trump often veers into personal animus, mocked the bills title with a crude jab. Its called the SAVE America Act, which is ironic, because its not its really saving his behind. Save the Donald Trump behind act, she sneered, reducing a serious debate over election security to late-night punchline material.
Both Behar and Griffin went further, alleging that the act suppresses the vote and could even prevent half of Americans from voting, a charge for which they offered no evidence. Their rhetoric reflects a broader progressive narrative that equates any tightening of election procedures with suppression, even when the reforms in question like showing identification are routine requirements in everyday life, from boarding a plane to buying certain medications.
As the Senate weighs the SAVE America Act, the contrast could not be sharper: a President pressing for stronger safeguards to restore confidence in elections, and media figures on daytime television casting routine ID checks as a civil rights crisis. With overwhelming public support for voter ID and a House-passed bill awaiting action, the real question is not whether no one wants these protections, but whether a small bloc of senators and their media allies will continue to stand between voters and the election integrity measures they have repeatedly said they want.
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