At a speech at the Coosa Steel Corporation in Rome, Georgia on February 19, 2026, convicted felon/sexual abuser/President Trump said Republicans “will never lose a race for fifty years, we’ll never lose a race” if congressional Republicans pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or SAVE Act. The SAVE Act would impose stringent new requirements on voter ID, block millions of Americans from voting and end the convenience of voting by mail nationally, even though there is zero evidence of widespread voter fraud occurring anywhere across the country. Critics call it the most restrictive voting bill in history, and a “solution in search of a problem.”
But the SAVE Act was not designed to address fraudulent voting. It was designed to solve Republicans’ problem of continuing to lose elections as the popularity of their party plummets. Poll after poll finds people are recoiling from Trump’s overly-aggressive and deadly anti-immigration push. Trump also launched an expensive and unpopular war on Iran without Congressional approval, causing gas prices and airfares to jump sharply, making Americans’ already difficult financial lives even more difficult. Under Republicans’ 2025 “Big, Beautiful Bill,” jobs are disappearing, and almost 5 million more Americans will lose access to health insurance in 2026. Most recently, whole sections of the government, including the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), are shutdown again due to Republicans’ refusal to rein in the aggressive and violent Immigration and Customs Enforcement behavior that is terrorizing American cities. Travelers at the country’s largest airports are having to wait 3-5 hours for security checks before boarding their flights, and Trump is making it worse. Most recently he rejected a Republican plan to fund TSA while Congress works out the terms of an agreement to rein in the behavior of ICE agents — the problem at the core of the shutdown.
Trump is also desperately afraid that if Democrats win control of Congress in the 2026 mid-term election, he will be impeached.
Speaking at his Florida resort at a Republican annual retreat on March 11, Trump said if the SAVE Act passes, “They [Democrats] probably won’t win an election for fifty years, and maybe longer.”:
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In early February, on a podcast with podcaster and former Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino, at about 1 hour and 35 minutes into the interview, Trump told Republicans to seize control of elections nationally. He said,
“The Republicans should say, ‘we want to take over.’ We should take over the voting in at least many, 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting.”
Trump is working overtime to mythologize voter fraud as his way to justify his loss the 2020 election to Joe Biden, and is working as hard as he can to try to dupe voters into believing voter fraud is an actual problem.
It’s not.
Senators should not kowtow to Trump and pass the SAVE Act the way our CD-3 Congressional Representative Jeff Hurd did in early February. It will throw the mid-term elections into confusion and block tens of millions of Americans from voting. Hurd’s vote to pass Trump’s “SAVE (ME)” Act made it clear Hurd is working to benefit Trump, and not the residents of western Colorado who elected him.