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The SAVE Act and Election Integrity
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Kennedy walks Theo through the SAVE Act, which he co-sponsors: voters must prove who they are with valid ID, and to register they must prove legal citizenship. He claims 80% of Americans support both provisions. Democrats argue it suppresses votes, but Kennedy dismisses the idea that people without ID are somehow disenfranchised — if you have no identification at all, he argues, the most likely explanation is that you're in the country illegally. The second pillar Kennedy considers equally important: returning to a single Election Day with all results announced that night. The current system, where California can take two weeks to count mail-in ballots, virtually guarantees that every losing candidate will accuse the winner of fraud, because the drawn-out process creates an information vacuum that conspiracy theories fill. He tried to attach the SAVE Act as an amendment to the reconciliation bill and could not get a single Democratic vote. [1] — John Kennedy "The SAVE Act requires proof of identity to vote and proof of citizenship to register — and Kennedy says 80% of Americans support it, but no…" 48:02
Americans lock their front doors not because they hate outsiders, but because they love the people inside and want to control who enters. Kennedy applies this to immigration: the U.S. admits more legal immigrants than any other country, but illegal immigration is still illegal, and 8–15 million unvetted people entered under Biden.
Kennedy has Trump's personal cell number, has known him for 10 years, and once told him directly: 'Tweeting a little bit less would not cause brain cancer.' His assessment of Trump's core character: 'He exists loudly' and 'grows anxious when he has an unexpressed thought.' Two different styles — but mutual respect.
