Hawley Blasts 4 Republicans Who Voted To Reject Adding Voter ID Bill To Reconciliation

“Listen, we’ve been doing this in Missouri for years. I mean, voters in my state put it in our constitution,” he said.

“Voter ID is the most popular thing out there,” he said.

“There’s reason for that. People want their elections to be safe, they want them to be fair. And to me, you can’t explain it to me, why you wouldn’t vote for voter ID. I just don’t understand it,” Hawley added.

Senate Republicans have struggled to advance President Donald Trump’s voter ID and citizenship verification legislation.

However, a late-night vote in the chamber revived a proposal many had considered all but dead.

During the Senate’s marathon vote-a-rama on the GOP’s $70 billion immigration enforcement package, Republicans made two attempts to attach the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act to the broader measure.

Both efforts fell short, as a group of Republicans joined Senate Democrats in opposing the amendments offered by Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Mike Lee of Utah.

The proposals faced steep odds regardless, as they needed to overcome the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster threshold to advance.

Graham’s amendment sought to attach a revised version of the SAVE America Act that included several additional policy provisions, including a ban on biological males competing in women’s sports, a measure Trump had pushed for months.

Four Republicans — Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, and Thom Tillis of North Carolina — voted against the proposal.