Michelle Cottle

In this case, I'm talking specifically about the SAVE Act.

Jamel, you've been writing about this.

You want to just start us off by laying out what the SAVE Act is and why the president is so fixated on it.

Well, one of the things that would be interesting to see how it panned out is I think mail-in voters would have to start submitting copies of their identification.

Now, if you're me and you have a printer at home that you can easily copy your driver's license with, that's not a problem.

I think that Republicans are working on the — and to clarify, most Republican lawmakers are not that keen on doing things that would throttle mail-in voting.

This is Trump's personal obsession.

He's still bitter about 2020, the blue shift, all that stuff.

But I think Republicans, to some degree, aren't factoring in the fact that used to they were seen as the party who had the most reliable voters, you know, but if you have switched to being the party that has to rely on voting to be easy enough that, you know,

Non-regular voters are going to put you over the top.

You should really be doing a gut check on what it means to just all of these things are geared at making it less convenient for people to vote.

And I'm not sure that's going to pan out how they think it's going to.

All right.

So the Safe America Act is not supposed it's not expected to pass the Senate.

So what is the point of spending so much time and political capital trying to push it through?

You know, not to be putting too fine a point of it, but especially when it seems like there are better uses of this president's attention and time.

Jamel.

David, it seems like it could be not so hot for their political fortunes in a year when voters seem to want to talk about other things and they're concerned that their leaders aren't focusing enough on ways to make their life better.

I mean, do we really think that this is what is driving the majority of the American public crazy?

And I feel like, you know, I live in D.C.