Democrats are once again trying to convince you that voter ID is somehow a voter suppression tactic.
To be fair, it’s not all Democrats who believe this. However, the ones who are going around to the media selling this load of horse manure happen to be recognizable names in the political game. First up, we have House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-New York, who was grilled by CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday about his opposition to the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act.
Watch:
Bash: 71% of Democrats support requiring an ID to vote. Why are they wrong?
Jeffries: Republicans are trying to engage in clear and blatant voter suppression.
Bash: But Democrats won in Virginia, and had to show ID. So why not support it?
Jeffries: Trump is trying to steal… pic.twitter.com/k9l7mGdhE6
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) February 8, 2026
“Requiring basic ID in order to vote is really popular. A Pew poll from a few months ago showed 83% of Americans, including 71% of your fellow Democrats, support requiring an ID to vote. Why are they wrong?” Bash asked Jeffries.
“Well, I haven’t said that they’re wrong. We know that states are the ones who are empowered to conduct elections, and every state should be allowed to decide the best way to proceed to ensure that there’s a free and fair election. Here in New York, there are in fact, voter identification requirements,” he said, before immediately turning to attack Republicans.
“The question is that what Republicans are trying to do is to engage in clear and blatant voter suppression. They know that if there‘s a free and fair election in November, they‘re going to lose. In fact, Republicans have been losing every single election since Donald Trump was sworn in in January of last year, including most recently, decisively in Texas. And of course, losing all across the country up and down the ballot in the November off-year elections in places like New Jersey or Virginia [or] New York,” he said.
Sen. Adam Schiff, D-California, also pushed that talking point in a discussion with Jon Karl.
“What about the idea of voter ID, a photo ID being required to vote. Are you in favor of that? Can there be a compromise where Democrats and Republicans put forward a photo ID as a requirement for voting?” Karl asked.
“What you’ve just asked is essentially, Republicans have created distrust of the elections by making claims of non-existent fraud in the elections, and shouldn’t we use the distrust they’ve created in order to enact a voter suppression law, which is the SAVE Act, which would require people to have a birth certificate or passport, documents that millions of Americans don’t have. Almost half the country doesn’t have a passport and I don’t know where many millions of people would find a birth certificate. So, no,” he said before Karl cut in to clarify.
“Well, I was asking you a different question. Photo ID, because as you know … in one recent Pew poll, 83% of adults support requiring photo ID to vote. 71% of Democrats favor requiring photo ID, is that something you can support? And if not, why not?” the host asked.
“It’s still going to be something that disenfranchises people that don’t have the proper REAL ID, driver’s license ID, that don’t have the ID necessary to vote even though they are citizens. This is simply another way to try to suppress the vote,” Schiff claimed.
X users weighed in:
If you don’t want Voter ID in the U.S. it’s because you want to cheat.
They know what will happen if Voter ID is passed.
— Eric Pistey (@shawnpisteySC) February 8, 2026
Once, Just once, I would like that man to answer the question asked and not the one he wished was asked. Just once.
— Not Simo Häyhä (@h2av8tor) February 8, 2026
Dear Democrat Voters, @SenAdamSchiff just gave you the middle finger.
What say you?
— 🇺🇸MI_DiamondDave’s Conservative Corner🇺🇸 (@MiDiamondDave) February 8, 2026
The deflection, obfuscation, and gaslighting is off the charts!
It’s depressing so many Americans buy their bullshit. All those suicidally empathetic, easily emotionally manipulated, white liberals who are immune to logic and willfully blind to facts.
— Kreskin’s Roommate (@ceebee301) February 8, 2026
You need a photo ID to get a prescription filled to get on a plane to get in a government office to collect government assistance. But you don’t need it to vote.
— tigersharktom (@tigersharktom) February 8, 2026
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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