Emmer calls out Dems’ DNC picture ID coverage amid SAVE America Act debate

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EXCLUSIVE: Home Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., is accusing Democrats of being hypocritical of their opposition to Republicans' newest election integrity invoice.

The No. 3 Home Republican ripped the rival social gathering after almost all of them voted towards the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act final week, particularly over its provision mandating federally accepted picture identification on the polls. It is also generally known as the "SAVE Act."

"These guys are doing the identical previous damaged file about voter suppression," Emmer informed Fox Information Digital. "Why aren't they screaming about picture IDs on the airport? Why aren't they screaming about picture IDs once you take a look at a e-book on the library?"

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Home Majority Whip Tom Emmer accused Democrats of hypocrisy for requiring picture IDs for the DNC however not supporting the SAVE America Act. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Photographs; Al Drago/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photographs)

Emmer identified {that a} picture ID was required for attendees to look at former Vice President Kamala Harris settle for the Democratic Social gathering's nomination for the White Home in Chicago final yr.

"By the best way, in the event that they suppose it is voter suppression, why do they require picture IDs on the Democrat Nationwide Conference to get in?" Emmer mentioned.

"I imply, I believe Individuals are a lot smarter than these individuals can perceive, can let themselves perceive," he mentioned.

The SAVE America Act handed the Home on Wednesday with assist from all Republicans — an more and more uncommon sight within the chamber — and only one Democrat, Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas.

A earlier iteration of the invoice, simply referred to as the SAVE Act, handed the Home in April of final yr with assist from 4 Home Democrats.

Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, talks with reporters within the Capitol after a gathering of Home Democrats in Washington, June 27, 2019. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Name by way of Getty Photographs)

Whereas the SAVE Act would have created a brand new federal proof-of-citizenship mandate within the voter registration course of and imposed necessities for states to maintain their rolls away from ineligible voters, the up to date invoice would additionally require picture ID to vote in any federal election.

That picture ID would additionally must denote proof-of-citizenship, in accordance with the legislative textual content.

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Democratic leaders within the Home and Senate have each panned the invoice, with Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries calling it "voter suppression" and Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., dismissing it as "a modern-day Jim Crow."

Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., speaks to the media subsequent to Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on the White Home in Washington, Sept. 29, 2025. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

Jeffries additionally particularly took challenge with a provision that may allow the Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) to provoke elimination proceedings if an unlawful immigrant was discovered on a state's voter rolls, arguing DHS would weaponize the data.

However voter ID, not less than, has confirmed to be a preferred commonplace in U.S. elections throughout a number of public polls.

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A Pew Analysis Middle ballot launched in August 2025 confirmed a whopping 83% of individuals supported government-issued picture ID necessities for displaying as much as vote, in comparison with simply 16% of people that disapproved of it.

A Gallup ballot from October 2024 confirmed 84% of individuals supported picture ID for voting in federal elections.

Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox Information Digital main protection of the Home of Representatives. Earlier digital bylines seen at Every day Mail and CBS Information.