According to all the available polling, the primary requirements of the SAVE America Act - requiring a government-issued photo ID to vote and requiring proof of citizenship to register - are enormously popular with American voters. I'm not aware of any survey that had this below a 2-to-1 margin, and most of them have the pro-voter ID side coming on much higher, as high as 80-20 in some. The most recent poll specifically on the SAVE America Act I could find, as of this writing, comes from Rasmussen, a pretty reliable pollster, who brings in the pro side at 63 percent.

That's about as heavy as the scales can tip in our current political environment. So, that being the case, why the bleeping bleepity bleep can't the Senate get this done?

Oh, I know, Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) is dealing with a narrow majority, and also contending with squishy Republicans like the Great Land's own Princess Lisa Murkowski (?-AK) who seems to worry about Alaska Natives in far-flung villages being impaired by the law, as though they were all helpless children who can't figure out how to get an ID - even though these people do, in fact, have those IDs, and Alaska IDs are RealID compliant, to boot. It's a condescending and, frankly, insulting attitude. 

But Senator Thune doesn't seem to understand what's at stake here. He can complain about the votes or lack thereof all day, but in the end, he has before the Senate the most important and consequential piece of legislation in a generation, one that will go a long, long way towards securing American elections, and he's letting it lie.

So, what can he do? The answer to that, as well, is right in front of him, and in front of all Senate Republicans. Kill the filibuster.

Look, I get it. A year ago I would have been adamantly against doing away with the filibuster, an old Senate rule that can be dumped with a simple majority vote. 10 years ago, 20 years ago, 30 years ago, I would have still been against it. I, like many, saw that as a necessary safeguard, something that kept outrageous legislation from passage, to prevent the Senate from becoming another version of the House of Representatives, just with older members. But that was then; this is now. The Democrats will nuke the filibuster the moment they gain a scant majority, and then it's Katie-Bar-the-Door, because they will use it to pass every left-wing fever dream imaginable, including, almost certainly, measures that will be the exact opposite of election security, like mandated mail-in ballots and forbidding Voter ID laws where they already exist.

Right here at RedState, we've been following the course of this vital legislation, and I can tell you, personally, I've been watching it with increasing apprehension.

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Even if this were to pass now, it would be difficult for some of the states to implement it in time for this fall's highly consequential midterms, and we should also bear in mind that blue-state governors will immediately tie up such implementation in court, with tame judges, to try to defang it before the midterms, and up through the 2028 election if possible. But that's no reason not to get this done. Such efforts to overturn a SAVE America Act signed into law probably wouldn't succeed; the Constitution very clearly gives Congress the power to set overall regulations over elections, in Article 1, Section 4, Clause 1:

The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.

That's still no reason not to get this done. Why? Well, here's why, and I'm going to tell you: If this doesn't happen, this could very well cost the Republican Party the midterms. Not because of election shenanigans, although that's certain to be a factor. No, a failure to get this done may well cause a collapse of enthusiasm among the Republican Party's conservative base, which may cost the GOP millions of votes - and control of the House and Senate. 

I'd love to be wrong about this, but I don't think I am. If this can get done, if the Senate, by whatever means necessary, manages to get this done, we should be in good shape even with legal challenges and slow-walking implementation; Republican candidates will still be able to claim a major victory in election security while pointing at obstructionist Democrats who opposed election integrity, an 80-20 issue, every step of the way. If this doesn't get done? What are Republican candidates supposed to say? "Sorry, we didn't manage to pass the most important legislation in a generation, but hey, vote for us, and better luck next time"?

To Leader Thune and Senate Republicans, I can only say this: This has to get done. If that means killing the filibuster, kill it. If that means withholding campaign support for Republicans who vote against it, do that. If the republic is to survive, if Congress is going to live up to the constitutional mandate to ensure for all states a republican form of government, then above all else, we have to secure our elections.

Get. 

This.

Done.