Jamelle Bouie

You want to vote 10 days, two weeks before the election?

Go for it.

It doesn't matter to me if the trade would be an ID requirement with IDs being readily available that you can easily go obtain an ID to prove your identification, and then you can vote.

It's amazingly easy.

The barriers are incredibly low.

I would take that trade in a heartbeat.

But if what you want to do is disenfranchise a bunch of working class white voters who are the bedrock of your coalition, I'm also not necessarily going to stop you.

I'm going to say you shouldn't do it for ethical and moral reasons.

But if you insist on it,

You know.

I'd say this is Trump's obsession, right?

As you noted, Michelle, he is still incredibly bitter about the 2020 election.

He still complains about not winning the popular vote in the 2016 election.

It's a fundamental injury to his ego that he has lost an election and he blames everything but himself.

And so it's his personal obsession.

And the Republican Party as it exists, it's just not...

it has built itself around satisfying this guy's ego demands.

And so I have no doubt that Republicans with their right minds, not all of them, but Republicans with their right minds understand the points you've been making about the basic counterproductiveness of this legislation.

But also the muscle of opposing the president on one of his priorities is just something they've never exercised.

And so they're going to go through this