Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) doubled down on his support for the SAVE America Act, telling “Meet The Press” host Ryan Nobles, who pushed back on election fraud conspiracies, that the two of them must just look at things “differently” when it comes to election fraud.
The exchange happened Sunday morning when Nobles questioned Marshall on the SAVE America Act, which if passed, would require voters to provide proof of citizenship before voting and ultimately give Republicans an edge in the upcoming midterms.
Nobles cited the Heritage Foundation, which has reported that only about 100 noncitizens have voted in an election since the ’80s, leaving election fraud a non-issue. Still, Marshall said on “Meet The Press” that the SAVE America Act is a good thing because the election process “needs to be trustworthy.”
“Yeah, Ryan, I guess we just look at this differently,” Marshall said after Nobles asked him for one example of fraud that the SAVE America Act could have prevented that would have altered an election. “I think again I’m going back to that an election process needs to be trustworthy, that the election process is important to the backbone and the survival of this nation.”
He continued: “What are Democrats running from. Why are they afraid? If what you’re saying is true, then why are you worried about this? Why not have voter ID? Why not have some type of proof of citizenship.”
On June 24, President Donald Trump refused to sign the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act until Congress passed the SAVE America Act. Marshall said Trump holding the housing act hostage was “classic Donald Trump negotiation style.”
But behind the scenes, the refusal to sign the bill, as well as four Senate Republicans voting to end the war in Iran, led to a shouting match between Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Trump on Wednesday. Most of the other Senate Republicans who were at the meeting offered only sarcastic responses to how it went, but on Sunday, Marshall defended the argument, saying Trump “feels like his own team pulled his legs out from behind him.”
“I’m just shocked that there’s a world out there that thinks that grown people can’t have a firm discussion,” Marshall said. “I’ve been through so many hospital board meetings with doctors yelling at each other over what time surgery should start. And maybe I was part of some of those yelling matches as well. Look, but it worked.”