Ted Cruz

We should be passing it.

The only way to get it passed is we need to stand together and force the Democrats to do a talking filibuster.

Unfortunately, to do that, we need 50 Republicans who are willing to stand and fight and be all unified together.

We don't have those votes right now.

I have been...

making that case for weeks on ends to my colleagues.

We're not there yet, and it is frustrating.

By the way, we did a podcast two weeks ago where we broke down the details of exactly how a talking filibuster would work, how using the existing Senate rules would

to force the Democrats to do like Jimmy Stewart and Mr. Smith goes to Washington, to force the Democrats to do like I did when I filibustered for 21 hours talking continuously against Obamacare in 2013.

We have not done that yet.

But I will say, so the Save America Act has two major elements.

Number one, it requires people to show proof of American citizenship to register to vote, a basic common sense step.

Number two, it requires photo ID to vote.

Well, the Democrats defense that they really hate provision one showing proof of citizenship.

And they argued, oh, some people can't do it.

Some people can't do it.

It's nonsense.

But that's what they argued.

And in the course of it, a whole lot of them said, we're OK with photo ID, which at some level is not surprising because photo ID.

83% of Americans support photo ID to vote.