Trump-backed SAVE America Act will get a Senate vote next week, Thune says
Advocates of the voter-ID bill have pressed the Senate for months to call a vote on the controversial legislation.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) is proposing a clamp-down on ballot harvesting, a move that could help ease tensions with the White House over his inability to pass the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility Act. The majority leader said the practice was a “real problem” that needed to be addressed when asked Wednesday whether Republicans…
Advocates of the voter-ID bill have pressed the Senate for months to call a vote on the controversial legislation.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told GOP colleagues Tuesday that they don’t have the votes to pass a House-approved voting reform bill through the Senate by forcing Democrats to use a talking filibuster to oppose it, rejecting President Trump’s full-court press. Senate Republicans at a Tuesday lunch meeting discussed the prospect of forcing…
Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s (R-SD) “clear-eyed” take on the SAVE America Act was readily called out with a warning on what comes next while “protecting his…
It’s not enough for him to kill the SAVE America Act. Thune has to kill it while also protecting his worst RINO colleagues,' Sean Davis said.