Vice President JD Vance said he and President Donald Trump have “aggressively” considered how to pass the SAVE America Act, the White House’s voter ID legislation.
Vance told the Daily Caller’s Vince Coglianese that he and the president have considered every option for how to take over the Senate floor and pass the bill.
“The problem is that we have a number of Republican senators who vote more with Democrats than they do with their own party, and that is the issue,” he said. “If you could get 51 GOP senators, or, frankly, 50 senators plus a vice president to stick together, we could fire the parliamentarian. We could get rid of the filibuster. We could pass SAVE America Act and a bunch of amazing stuff too.”
In the interview, Vance said that while he could assume the role of Senate chair, that is not where the bottleneck lies.
“The problem is that you have four or five Republicans, and we all know who they are, who are going to stand with Democrats,” he said.
Vance said he and Trump have “war-gamed this to every detail,” but they decided assuming the chair wouldn’t fix the problem at hand.
“We have obsessively thought through how do you get SAVE America passed, and how do you how do you blow up the filibuster? So, you have 47 Democratic senators,” he said. “If I overrule the parliamentarian, they need four because if they get to 50, I break the tie and we win. Forty-seven Democrats plus four Republicans: Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, Tom Tillis, Lisa Murkowski.”
“They overrule the vice president. You have a fun little ceremonial battle that you lose,” he said.
Vance said the White House wants to win the battle, which entails replacing “mediocre Republican senators with good Republican senators.”
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[ H/T The Daily Signal ]
