Kansas GOP Senator admits there may not be enough time to implement SAVE America Act

U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) said on Meet the Press Sunday that it’s “very possible” that there’s not enough time or resources to implement the anti-voter SAVE America Act before this year’s midterms, were it to become law now. 

Marshall is a supporter of the SAVE America Act, which would impose restrictive proof-of-citizenship and photo ID mandates to vote, and was arguing for its passage on Meet the Press.

While the bill has passed the U.S. House, it does not have enough support in the Senate. One of the senators opposing it, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), recently questioned if election officials could “have all that in place in time for this election and not be disruptive.”

When Meet the Press host Ryan Nobles asked Marshall if he agreed, the Kansas senator said, “Well, that’s very possible, but we shouldn’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.”

President Donald Trump has made passing the SAVE America Act a condition for him signing any other legislation, and is currently holding up a popular, bipartisan affordable housing bill until it is approved. Trump has also indefinitely delayed a confirmation hearing for the director of national intelligence until the bill is passed.

Meet the Press host Ryan Nobles exposed Sen. Roger Marshall's BS about "election fraud" and the need for the SAVE America Act, pressing him to provide evidence (Marshall had none) and leaving him stammering when he asked, "Are you trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist?"… pic.twitter.com/xzcR69L50M

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On Meet the Press, Marshall seemed to concede the fact that there is no evidence that widespread voter fraud – Trump’s alleged impetus for needing the SAVE America Act – has ever impacted any election outcomes. 

“I don’t think that fraud will ever end our democracy,” said Marshall, “but I’m worried about those that have this belief, this fear that fraud is indeed possible, and that it could go unpunished.”

Marshall proceeded to explain that some Americans don’t trust how elections are conducted and pointed to the recent Los Angeles mayoral primary election as an example of why. There’s been no evidence that anything fraudulent happened in that race, despite Trump and his U.S. attorneys desperately looking for it to materialize. 

However, Marshall insisted on the show that “the perception here is reality.”

Nobles rebutted him on this, citing a study from the conservative Heritage Foundation that found a minuscule fraction of fraud since the 1980s.

“The perception is actually not the reality,” said Nobles. “Particularly when it comes to the claims of election fraud.”