“Humiliated!” Republicans’ huge plan BACKFIRES in devastating fashion

Republicans intended to force Democrats to filibuster the 'Save America Act' to highlight Democratic opposition to election reform. Instead, due to a lack of votes to pass the bill (even with a simple majority) and internal dissent, Republicans themselves engaged in prolonged floor speeches, effectively filibustering their own legislation. This prevented a vote that would have exposed their inability to pass the bill.

Republicans are now trying to get this thing through. But they seem to have hit a pretty damning obstacle... They're just doing all the talking because they are afraid, Brian, that if they actually had to bring to a vote this bill, it would fail.

Donald Trump had aggressively pushed for the 'Save America Act,' threatening senators who wouldn't support it and proposing amendments like banning mail-in voting. The bill's legislative failure, particularly the inability to even bring it to a vote or secure a simple majority, is presented as a public humiliation for Trump, demonstrating his diminished control over his own party members in the Senate.

Donald Trump says will guarantee Republican victories for the next 50 years... I definitely don't have the votes to pass it with Donald Trump's crazy amendments. But if I just say, 'Guys, this is done.' Then I'm going to get attacked by Donald Trump and his cronies. ... Now Donald Trump looks like a clownish fool that can't even control his own Senate uh members.

A central justification for the 'Save America Act' was the claim of widespread voter fraud, particularly involving non-citizens. However, the hosts cite studies, including a 14-year study of over a billion ballots finding only 31 instances of fraud, and a Utah study that found only one non-citizen registered (who didn't vote). Senator Mike Lee, a proponent of the bill, was unable to provide specific numbers for voter fraud when questioned.

There was one study that lasted 14 years, looked at over a billion ballots cast, and they found 31 instances of ballot fraud... Utah did this big study of you know trying to find non-citizen voting... they found exactly one non-citizen registered to vote but Brian that person didn't actually vote. ... I don't know those numbers, but what I do believe is that there are at least tens of thousands, probably hundreds of thousands by the time all the research is done, uh, of people who have registered to vote in elections in one state or another.