Starting around 2011, North Carolina became a case study on the lengths Democrats and their affiliated special interest groups would go to stop the passage of voter ID bills, ramping up their inflammatory rhetoric after a GOP-backed bill was signed into law by then-Gov. Pat McCrory (R) in 2013.
The state was also hit with lawsuits, but ultimately prevailed, even after the 2013 law was overturned by the 4th Circuit Court in 2016. In 2018, a constitutional amendment on voter ID was approved by voters. Although the less stringent bill that arose from it was also challenged in the courts, that challenge eventually failed. Voter ID is now the law in North Carolina – one of 36 states to have some form of it on the books.
What Democrats didn’t like to talk about at the time, just as they don’t now amid the debate over the SAVE America Act, is that voter ID was popular in North Carolina across the board. It remains so throughout the country, even after decades of media-assisted demagoguery and fearmongering.
As evidence, let’s first take a look at an analysis by CNN data guru Harry Enten from February of polling data over the years on voter ID. Here’s what he found:
“What’s the racial breakdown on this? Because I think a lot of people make the argument that people of color, non-white Americans have a harder time procuring a photo ID to vote,” Enten said. “But even here, take a look here, favor photo ID to vote: 85% of white people favor it, 82% of Latino, 76% of black Americans favor it.”
“So the bottom line is this: voter ID is not controversial in this country. A photo ID to vote is not controversial in this country,” he continued. “It is not controversial by party, and it is not controversial by race. The vast majority of Americans agree with Nicki Minaj that in fact you should have a photo ID to be able to vote.”
Here we are over a month later, and what do we see? A new poll from CBS News that once again confirms a vast majority of Americans approve of voter ID, including black and Hispanic voters:
Further, a key component of the SAVE America Act, requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote, is also backed by most Americans:
Upon seeing the latest polling information, Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) made the following observation:
Democrat Senators are grotesquely out of touch with Americans. They’ve been so laser focused on advocating for foreign nationals (including criminal aliens) that they’ve become completely disconnected from reality. It’s a pathetic state of affairs.Pass the Save America Act.
“Only American citizens should be deciding U.S. elections, and AMERICANS agree,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) wrote on X about the CBS News poll.
This is yet another 80/20 issue on which Democrats have decided to be on the wrong side. I mean, even the voting blocs they claim they want to protect support it resoundingly.
The Democrat messaging on this issue over the years has been a spectacular failure, and if President Trump and congressional Republicans have their way about it, the Democrats’ campaign against the SAVE America Act will end up failing, too.
– Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via X. –
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