LIVE From Congress as the SAVE America Act PASSES, Voter ID to END Election Fraud | Obama in PANIC
Senator Mike Lee and Chip Roy push the Save America Act, passed by the House on February 12, 2026, to require voter IDs and citizenship proof for federal elections, despite Democratic opposition calling it "Jim Crow." The bill—backed by 82% of Americans and 76% of Black voters—targets alleged fraud like Georgia’s 2020 irregularities and exploits of the NVRA, which allows non-citizens to vote using driver’s licenses from 19 states. Lee dismisses cloture, advocating a talking filibuster to force debate exhaustion, while Elon Musk warns of internet-connected voting vulnerabilities. Grassroots pressure, including activists like Scott Pressler camping in offices, fuels momentum as the bill nears Senate passage, framing election integrity as non-negotiable for the Republic’s future. [Automatically generated summary]
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The Save America Act has passed the House and it is rolling on over to the Senate.
We got a couple senators who will be rolling with us today live from Washington, D.C. Today is Thursday, February 12, 2026.
The Save America Act has passed.
Libs are freaking out.
Barack Obama is crying because he thinks that his base of support is too stupid to go get an ID.
Okay?
They need an ID to get a liquor store, need an ID to get on a plane to come here, need an ID to do literally buy a lotto ticket, but no, no big deal.
Don't need an ID to vote.
If you're too dumb to get an ID, should you even be voting?
A critical question.
Ladies and gentlemen, Senator Mike Lee and Senator Mark Wynn Mullen in the studio live with us to answer the questions.
Will the SAVE Act get passed?
More importantly, Jon Thune on board right now.
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This is it.
Ladies and gentlemen, here we go.
The Save America Act.
What did we get?
One House Dem.
One House Democrat voted in favor of voter ID.
What does this tell you exactly about the state of America?
One House Democrat, so what this is, is it is an IQ test.
It is saying that we have either like the dumbest electorate possible as Democrats, we don't trust our own people to have IDs.
We don't trust and have IDs to get malt liquor.
We don't trust and have IDs to get on an airplane.
Effectively, Democrats are like, they're saying that their voter base is third world citizens.
And so in between doing three rallies a day, he was doing 12 telephone town hall meetings for members all across the country.
And we would go until midnight at night.
We'd be eating junk food the whole time, which I'm cool with that.
But we were eating junk food the whole time.
We'd get to the hotel like at midnight, be back in the vehicles by 5.30.
And when we get there, he's still wanting to have meetings.
Like he's still going.
And it never slowed down.
And I'd see him crash out for five minutes.
Five minutes, you can sit your clock to it.
One time a day.
And he would just go to sleep and wake up with more energy than he had before he went to sleep.
I've never seen anything like it.
But he's really bad about calling you between 11 and 1, especially if something's going on.
Like if we're working on, you know, the one big beautiful bill or we're working on the Save Act or working on some legislation, we're doing a Bowdo Rome all night.
He's up and he's calling.
And if we're going leading up to it, he's having conversations about it.
And I'm always afraid about him calling me right when I go to sleep because I don't sleep much.
But my first hour I go to sleep, I'm out to the world.
If you wake me up, I'm not happy.
Like I'm not, like, I'm not even myself.
I don't remember.
So I've always been afraid that he would call me during that first hour of sleep.
And I went to bed one time about 11:30, which is a little early for me.
And I woke up at 4:30 and I was like, I had a dream I talked to the president.
I said, oh, God, please tell me I didn't.
Because I'm really bad about it in the first hour of sleep.
And I looked at it and said, DJT, and it was black.
And it had, and I looked at the duration of the call, and it was three minutes.
And I was like, oh, my gosh.
And this is 4:30 in the morning.
So I waited until 5.30 to call him.
And he picked up the phone.
The first thing he goes is says, you don't remember talking to me, do you?
And I said, no, sir.
I said, what did I say?
And he said, you'll never know.
Clicking on it.
To this day, I have no idea what I said.
And I'm scared to death to know what I said.
But I'm pretty sure it's going to come back and bite me one day.
First of all, when the Democrats can't make a logical argument, they go to, it's racist.
So Chucky Schumer comes out immediately and says the SAVE Act is Jim Crow 2.0.
And you're going, really?
Okay.
It's already in 37 states.
And so out of 50 states, there's 37 states that already have a voter ID required when you go vote.
And the only 13 states that don't, I'm sure there's no direct connection here, but the only 13 states that don't are the ones that voted for Harrison Biden.
The irony of that, right?
So out of 37 states, there's not been one lawsuit that said that we were suppressing the minority vote.
There's not been one complaint that people couldn't vote.
And in fact, in Georgia, when they passed a voter ID, remember they were saying that It was going to suppress a minority vote in Atlanta, and actually the vote went up the next election.
Him and Michelle should just go and enjoy their millions of dollars they made off the government because they were community organizers and they left the White House and somehow they were able to purchase a, which I'm glad for success, but I don't know how you're a community organizer scraping by living in a rent house.
You leave the White House and you're able to purchase an $11 million house.
So go enjoy your life, but don't sit there and start saying it's racist because Obama had the best opportunity to bring the country together.
I mean, here's a guy that had every excuse to lose in life.
And he was raised in Kansas by his white grandparents.
And then somehow he made it to Hawaii.
I don't know the whole connection there, but he was in Hawaii.
He was in Kansas.
But his father was absent.
And he was a young black man that came up to bill to become a president of the United States with no connection to the world of success.
And he did it.
And if anybody should have been out there and bring the country together, it should have been Barack Obama to say, listen, don't tell me about racism.
Don't tell me about the division.
Don't tell me how horrible the country is.
If I can do it, and I can be raised by a single white mother, and I can be raised by my grandparents in Kansas in a white community, and I can still make it and become president of the United States.
What a great story.
Instead, he wanted to bring in division and bring in racism and make Black Lives Matter a signature staple of his presidency.
So he has no relevance in my world other than, okay, great, you're the first black American in the United States.
The truth is, we want to save America, and that's why this is called the Save Act.
And the way you save America is you bring in confidence in our election.
If you want to keep people at home, you keep them at home by thinking that our system is rigged and your vote doesn't matter.
And if they think it doesn't matter, then that's how you lose the voter integrity.
If they have some type of proof, like using your credit card, most people require a voter ID if you're checking in a hotel with that.
If you go rent a car, you've got to have a voter ID.
If you go sign up for government programs, you got to have an ID.
If you board a plane, you got to have an ID.
If you go to college, you got to have an ID.
If you get a job, I legally cannot hire you unless I have a picture and a photocopy of your voter ID.
I have to send it into the Department of Labor.
It's illegal if I don't have it.
And so for them to say that you have to have a voter, an ID for anything else you do in the world or in this country except to vote, you have to sit there and go, why?
What are they afraid of?
That would be the question.
What are you afraid of?
I think we can answer that question, but what are you afraid of to say that you got to have a voter or you got to have an ID to vote?
Well, I can't get into it real deep, but I can tell you that there's been a lot of, and we're not trying to rehash the 2020 election, okay?
That's in the past and the present's working in the future.
What we're trying to do is keep the 2020 elections from happening in the future.
And so to do that, you've got to identify the irregularities that took place, irregularities by saying, how did the machines, if the machines were compromised, how were they compromised or how would they have been compromised?
So you got to use a legal term there.
If you have voter mel-in ballots, how were they harvested?
How were they received?
Who signed for them?
Who were the individuals that signed up for them?
How many of them were sent to the same address?
We have so many of them that came from the exact same address.
Now, I have a big family, and we have a lot of people that come in and out of my house.
But I can assure you, the only people that vote with my address are my wife and I and my kids when they were still in high school.
Now they have their own address in the college towns that they're at, right?
But I can assure you, those are the only people.
So how are you having a single family home with 20 and 30 people voting from the same address?
Yeah, for real.
And that's what you're having here.
So what you're saying is you're having voted harvests go by because there's a bunch of homeless people, which is fine, right?
They have the right to vote too.
But how they all of a sudden get coordinated there at the same address?
Who went and did that?
Because in Georgia, ballot harvesting in that degree, now you can go collect ballots, but the true term of ballot harvesting is illegal.
And what that is, is that when you go and you fill it out for people and you're stamping it in your melanin for them, not just simply picking it up and you're not looking over the shoulder while they're doing it.
And there's a lot of that that's been showing up in Georgia.
There's a lot of counties and precincts that had a lot more people voting than they had seen in the years past and that was registered to vote from that precinct, which is why voter ID is so critical.
I mean, just show that you're able, that it's who you are.
I'm in Oklahoma in a small town, Adair County, where my wife and I were raised our entire life, graduated from, raised our family in.
I go to the precinct.
Everybody knows me.
I mean, everybody knows me, right?
And I still have to show a voter ID.
They turned me away one time because I forgot it.
I had to go back home and get my stupid wallet because I forgot my wallet.
I never forget my wallet.
I had to go back home, which was a 30-minute drive because out to our ranch and turn around and come back to vote.
And they, I mean, it's not like they don't.
It's like you could Google it, but it's not.
And the lady that was doing it, she's our third grade teacher, second-grade teacher, our second grade teacher.
But that's in small town America.
So if they can enforce it, then Atlanta, Georgia can enforce it.
Well, it won't go into effect right now in the 2020 or the 2026 midterm elections.
It won't go into effect until 27.
And so Mike, who is brilliant at this, by the way, Mike is one of those friends that you need to have because he can quote law and statistics better than anybody.
But sometimes he talks to you and you're like, hey, bring it down, man.
Like, use English that I can understand because he dives so deep into it.
But there were some issues.
The Democrats were complaining about it, and he paid attention to them.
That's kind of the brilliance of Mike.
Mike, you go, okay, well, we can clean it up because they're like, it's difficult.
He goes, listen, there's some problems with it because the Democrats are saying that you've got to show citizenship when you register to vote, and you've got to show citizenship.
This is one of the arguments.
When you go to vote to.
He's like, that was not the intent of it.
Since that's not the intent of it, we're going to clean it up.
And then they were talking about, what about those that are already registered to vote?
That's already signed affidavit that said that they were legal to vote.
He says, that's not our intent to redo and make everybody go sign up to revote again.
This is for people that are registering to vote.
And then it was like, well, what about the cost to the individual?
So the cost of the individual goes to, well, can you just not do this with your voter ID?
So when you get your real ID, like my wife and I, we had to do a change of address just recently.
And when we went to go there, we already had a real ID.
But to get a real ID, I had to show my birth certificate, which showed my citizenship.
And then we went to go redo it, I could register to vote there.
And you could register as Republican because I already had my real ID.
So does your real ID, if you showed your birth certificate at the time to show that you're a citizen, does it count as proof of citizenship?
And so Mike went through and cleaned a lot of that up, which is why he had to do another bill to, because on the first bill, there was already 50 co-sponsors.
And so he had to rewrite it and reissue it since it can't be admitted yet because it wasn't on the floor.
So that's why we're getting new co-sponsors.
That's why Jon Thune just signed up.
So what it does now, and Mike can go into it even more in detail, is once you register to vote and you show your proof of citizenship, which is your birth certificate or passport, whatever it is, once you show that you're a citizen, and you sign up, now you're on the register.
So when you go to the precinct, all you got to do is just show the voter or show your ID, not voter iCard, just your ID, like you do when you check in a hotel.
And you go there and say, yeah, that's you.
Check.
That's your name.
That's your picture.
You're registered.
Here's your ballot.
Go vote.
It doesn't take any time at all.
Like I said, 37 states already do that.
We already have it.
So it's just voter integrity is all this is.
And people will say, well, it's not constitutional.
Well, Article 1, Section 4 does allow the federal government to have a say in federal elections, not state elections.
So state elections, you can hold a state election however you can.
Federal government isn't impeding in that.
But the Constitution clearly says that you're supposed to be a citizen of the United States.
It doesn't clarify how that proof is because people didn't have ID back then.
And so this isn't outside the Constitution.
We're not telling the states how to run state elections, but we already tell states when they got to have the primary or the general elections.
We don't tell them how to handle the primaries.
We don't tell them if you've got to have a runoff state or if it's a winner-take-all state.
We don't tell them how they have to do runoffs if they do it.
We just tell them that this is a date that the general election has to take place in federal elections.
That's the only time we get into it.
And we don't even tell them how they have to handle their runoffs, or I mean, their special elections.
So for federal elections, we have the constitutional right to say that you've got to prove that you're a citizen.
And so this is well within the Constitution.
So when the Democrats go out there and say it's racist or they say that it's federalized an election, their memory's short because they did try to federalize the election.
Back when Barack or when Biden was in office, when Chucky Schumer was leader and Nancy Pelosi was speaker, they tried to get out there and federalize the election to require that mail-out ballots were supposed to be sent to the UK.
And then you go back into Fulton County and you're like, well, I mean, Rudy's telling us that they were straight up printing ballots on site and that they have 17,000 votes that nobody even knows where they came from.
They have no ballots to match the actual votes.
Then we went back and checked the tape.
They were coming up with different numbers by the hour of how many votes they had.
It was like a machine was trying to create an algorithm, trying to punch in like a specific, you can go back and check it.
And then they're like, oh, don't worry, it's a water pipe.
So the way that this, I dove in deep, real deep, and you know that during this, and not publicly, but very privately.
And I went to Elon first and I said, Elon, is it possible?
Right?
I mean, here's arguably the smartest guy in the world.
For real.
Right?
Especially when it comes to anything electronic.
And he says, anything that is man-made can be manipulated.
Anything.
And anything that's open to a connection, meaning an open source connection, even if it's secured, can always be tagged.
And especially if you have the key.
And I was like, what do you mean the key?
He says the key is the back door that even if you have a secure network, I can still open the key.
The key is a very encrypted code.
And with the key, I can enter the back of it and I can come out of it and leave no footprint.
He says, so who controls the key?
I'm not a tech guy, but I dove into it.
And so when he started looking at that, so he's like, okay, well, how would this be possible?
Hypothetically, and I've got to use legal terms here, all right?
You understand?
Because I don't want to get you in trouble or anything.
So let's start hypothetically.
Hypothetically, the way that it would be done, hypothetically, is that they wouldn't go in and change a red county to blue.
They would change the percentages.
So if you're going for a popular vote in a state, and the state gets electoral votes, so they would take a red county that normally wins by 20% and they would drop it down to 19.1.
And then they would take a blue county that typically wins by 10% and they would increase it by the same amount.
It's just, so it doesn't trigger an audit because you're not having a 15-point swing.
You're having a percentage swing.
But if you do that enough through each precinct, now, because you take it from county to precinct, and how many precincts are in a county, well, it depends on the population.
But so you're keeping roughly the same amount of votes that's in that county, and you're just screwing with each little precinct by a percentage, small percentage, not even a full basis point, just a percentage.
And if you do that enough throughout the election, especially if you already have it calculated on which specific, you can't do it throughout the country because there's too many of them.
Which ones are going to be purple?
Which are the targets?
Well, we all know the target states.
So if you go in and you start changing those percentages, small percentages, not to hit an audit, the only way you catch that is if you go to each one of those precincts and you start hand counting every single ballot.
But if you fall within the parameters that it doesn't trigger an automatic audit, then it takes a court order to change it.
And so it's very smart the way they were able, the way supposedly they were able to change these vote percentages to allow the popular vote to go to where they wanted it to go.
And then by the way, they could also increase, say the population had increased in that area because you had a hard move-in.
And not everybody had registered.
But they knew that a lot of people had moved in based on housing because they could go in because this isn't done the night of the election.
This is done months or years out by looking at where the population base is growing, but the percentage of registered voters aren't.
So you change it to where you can vote without being registered.
You just have to sign in that you're doing it and they do it by voter or by mail out ballots.
And so it's an affidavit that's been signed, which is why you have so many collected from one town or one address.
And then you can run that percentages up of people that supposedly voted based on the population growth that goes in.
So this isn't something that was just supposedly done by just filling in the ballots the night of because we necessarily needed.
That's what a lot of people think.
This is much more in depth.
This was supposedly, supposedly, I'm once trying to get you in trouble.
Supposedly, it would have been planned years out or months out.
And they had a contingency plan for a contingency plan for a contingency plan based on pure numbers.
When he changed small percentages throughout the country and precincts that are swing precincts or heavy precincts, it's not just swing, but it's heavy precincts.
So like I said, who's going to pay attention to when this precinct's supposed to go 20 points and it goes 19.1?
You're sending your margin of error, right?
So they're not going to say that.
But maybe the precinct went 21 and they took two percentage points off of it.
And maybe this one.
Yes.
And so this one, this one that was a red one, they just added in.
So the vote count roughly stays the same, but the popularity totally changes.
And when you sit down and Elon, I spent, it was supposed to be a 30-minute meeting with him and we ended up spending an hour with him, which, by the way, that guy is intense.
I mean, intense.
Very intense.
And when you sit down and you talk to him about this, it just blows your mind.
And then you see him, you see Elon start looking at this and going, this is absolutely possible.
I mean, it went from, yes, it's possible to, holy smokes, this is absolutely possible.
And I've been working on this now since 20, I guess 20, I'm going to have to look at my wife.
Was it 23?
Was it 23 when I started working on it?
22, 23?
23 is when I really dove into it.
Because now we're getting in the midterms and we're like, okay, what do we do to voter integrity, right?
And when you started diving into it, the farther you go into, it just doesn't.
I could pull up signal messages right now that I've been getting last night that I haven't even checked yet that's still working on this because voter integrity is the most important thing.
Like I said, the way you can destroy our election system is for people not to trust our elections.
And President Trump wants voter integrity more than anything, and we wanted to deliver that for him.
And I think we will.
We've already done so many things because of knowing this.
Going to the midterms, you would see messaging going out from the White House saying we are prepared for this.
You even saw Elon even come out and say a couple things like, listen, if we see this, to just put people on notice that we got your game, if you did this or if you try this again, we've got your game, we know where you're going.
So I already put them in notice.
And now it's a matter of going in and fixing it to make sure that if someone doesn't have Elon, they're putting their eyes on it, or we're not putting our eyes on it to keep it from happening again.
And that's President Trump's number one goal is voter integrity.
It's not to rehash 2020, it's to keep our voters and the American people confident in our elections in the future.
Well, one, that's what I said, by putting people on notice that we're watching, we're aware of their game, made a lot of people very worried about what was happening.
They didn't want to expose themselves because they knew the trouble they would get into.
So just by calling them out, sometimes by just putting you on notice, saying, hey, man, I don't want to hurt you, but you take another step towards me and you're in my comfort zone.
I'm going to remove you.
That's putting you on notice.
Now, you've got to make a decision.
Are you brave enough to step in that circle?
And that's the same thing in this.
By us just going out there and exposing, saying we know some of your tricks, if you did it, supposedly, if you did it, we know some of your tricks and we're watching all of it now.
And if you do, since we're watching, we're not going to allow you to be able to go back out and cover your tracks.
So because you've just laid out an architecture of how important it was for Elon to understand how these elections could be rigged if every machine is hooked up to the internet.
And so the moment that that light switch went on, I mean, this is the piece of legislation.
I've never seen Elon go after a piece of legislation like he's done with the SAVA.
I had quote-twetted him last night and said, look, with all the many millions of dollars that the far left is throwing at this, because that's obviously pretty professionalized.
He should have just kicked over that table with all those aunties at it, just kicked the table over and been like, you know, how dare you, you know, Jim Crow.
Is nothing sacred?
I don't know.
I don't know, man.
That's right.
Don Lemon is being charged with the KKK Act, so I guess there's no rules.
You think with all those millions of dollars, they could afford to at least get the name right, but whatever.
This isn't a big deal.
In fact, what's a big deal is that we even have to have a law for this.
And what he and so many other people are missing about the Save America Act is that what made this whole thing necessary has a lot to do with an existing federal law.
You know, a lot of these guys who are taking shots at it, including some, unfortunately, within our own party, but a lot of Democrats are taking shots at the Save America Act by saying, oh, this is an attempt to federalize all elections.
States are in charge of elections.
We should keep the federal government out of it.
Well, generally speaking, that's right.
It's missing two important points.
First, Article 1, Section 4 of the Constitution, gives us a limited degree of say in how federal elections are conducted.
Federal elections, including and especially for U.S. senators and U.S. representatives and for presidents.
But secondly, to the extent it's an intrusion into the conduct of elections, it's an intrusion that was necessitated by federal law.
That federal law, the National Voter Registration Act, passed in 1993, was interpreted a couple decades later by the Supreme Court of the United States in a case called Arizona versus Intertribal Council.
And they interpreted it to say that when you register to somebody to vote in a state using the NVRA form, a federal form, a state may not, it cannot, it is legally prohibited from requesting proof of citizenship.
That's why we have to get involved in this.
And that's what he's missing.
That's what so many people who were criticizing this bill and the need for it are missing.
We have to do this because federal law right now creates an untenable set of circumstances.
So you've got that interpretation.
Then you've got, what, 10, 15 million people who came in illegally over the between 2021 and 2025 alone.
And then on top of all that, one of the things that's changed since the NVRA was first enacted back in the early 90s is that we now have nearly every state issuing driver's licenses to non-citizens.
And you've got, I think, 19 states willing to issue driver's licenses even to known illegal immigrants.
That's what makes this necessary because the whole point of the NVRA was to allow people to register automatically to vote when they apply for a driver's license.
All they have to do is check a box saying, I want to register to vote and sign their name certifying, by the way, I'm eligible to vote.
I've been trying to track it, man, and I don't get it.
It's like the argument is that Democrat voters are too low IQ to even function in society at all.
Again, I just checked into my, I checked into my hotel, totally woke, Washington, D.C. Rainbow flags everywhere, septum-piercing, blue-haired person checking me in.
First thing that they do, they've asked me for an ID.
It's the first thing.
First thing that happens.
Are you triggered?
You want to talk about it?
Again, I screamed.
I said, I'm going to charge you with the KKK Act.
To get on the flight and come up here, it's the same thing.
It doesn't make it.
I don't know how they have any grounds to oppose this.
I don't understand any of the argument against it.
So my point is, that's the best argument that they can come up with.
You asked me to concoct the best argument they've got.
And I think that's really it.
But you can't view that in isolation.
It's like saying anything that makes it harder for people to vote is bad, therefore we have to ban it.
Therefore, we're going to make it so easy for people to vote that they can phone it in from anywhere and push one to vote for candidate A and two to vote for candidate B.
That would make it easier.
So the fact that we don't do that makes voting harder.
That's the trade of talking about it, it's election fraud manipulation.
That's incitement of election fraud, you might say.
And so that's the best argument they can come up with, but it sucks.
It's a terrible argument.
It collapses under its own weight because it proves the point as to why we need it.
When you have elections, if you just had a stack of pieces of paper and anybody could go grab one and write the candidate's name and throw it in there, and you didn't check a box to say, hey, Benny, you already voted, you scoundrel, sit down and stuff stuff in the ballot box.
You could argue that that too, just keeping track of who has voted, having a requirement that you register to vote, that too deters voting.
And yet we allow those steps because the integrity of the election matters.
Look, once you've mentioned one person, it's so hard to do that because there's so many others to mention.
But he's an example.
You're another example of someone who has done a lot of work to increase public awareness.
That's part of the magic behind this bill is that so many people are doing so much lifting all on their own independently.
And it's happened, Benny, because this resonates with people.
They see what the risks are.
And especially when they understand the legal backdrop, the historical backdrop against which this became necessary, they become just amazed at the fact that this is necessary and amazed at the fact that this is even a little bit controversial.
And it's kind of like anything and everything that the left throws at this makes our movement twice as energized.
Every time they add another ridiculous argument, our own supporters become twice as energized to get this thing done.
And the thing is, the American people are with us.
So it's very important now that the House of Representatives has passed this, and I want to thank the House sponsor, my teammate, and all this, Chip Roy, great congressman from Texas.
He's the House sponsor of it.
They got it through.
They got it passed last night.
It now comes over to the Senate, and it's built into a Senate-passed vehicle.
Another bill that was passed by Senator Rick Scott on a different topic that's pending in the House.
They haul that out, they put that in there.
They're sending it over to us in the form of a message.
It saves us an additional legislative step.
What I would like to see happen is for it to come over to this Senate.
It's not quite clear what's going to happen.
Both the House and the Senate are scheduled to be out with members back in their home states the next week.
It's not clear whether that's going to happen yet because there's this Homeland Security shutdown risk going on.
But if in fact we are out next week, I would love to see this come to the Senate floor on Wednesday, the 25th of February, the day after the President's State of the Union address to Congress.
And I'm speaking for what I would prefer here.
I don't want to speak for Leader Thune or for the Senate in its entirety.
I don't have the authority to do that.
But this is what I would like to see.
And I've articulated this to my colleagues, including Senator Thune, late last night.
I would love to see it come to the Senate floor Wednesday, the 25th.
We vote to proceed to it on a motion to proceed.
That is it at a simple majority.
Now, after that, historically, once we're at that stage, a debate would begin.
Somebody would at some point file a cloture petition.
And the cloture petition is what, after it ripens, you have a delay after it's filed before you can vote on it.
But when you vote on it, that vote is set at 60.
That's why most Americans believe, and as a practical matter for many decades, it has often been the case that you've got to have 60 votes in order to get something passed.
But you don't actually pass it at 60.
60 is just the threshold for cloture.
That's the mechanism by which you force debate to come to a close, even if there are some senators who still want to continue to debate.
You say at that point, no more debate, because 60 of us agree it's time to bring debate to a close.
There is another way.
This just hasn't been used in a long time, and it's known as the talking filibuster.
The talking filibuster is what I describe.
I've talked a lot about this on X and elsewhere and to my colleagues as the you have the talking filibuster and the zombie filibuster.
The filibuster refers to the process by which senators are encouraged to and to a significant degree are protected by the Senate rules in their ability to engage in unlimited debate as long as they want to.
But they're supposed to have to speak to go to the Senate chamber, stand up on the Senate floor, seek recognition, and once recognized, you begin speaking and you stand.
And you should have to speak in order to prolong debate and thus delay the moment of ultimate passage on this.
We've allowed it to become very easy for senators to, in effect, filibuster without ever actually having to speak.
They don't have to stand, don't have to speak.
Shoot, they could be asleep.
They could be in the Bahamas.
They could be somewhere else and they have the benefit of it.
On a bill like this, where it's 80-20 in support of the bill, the American people overwhelmingly want it and need it.
It really is important for us to make senators speak.
And I think that's what we ought to do rather than going down the clocher route.
And you use this in order to exhaust senators.
Trent Lott, former Senate majority leader, has put it this way when describing the Senate.
Most of what happens in the Senate comes about as a result of one of two things: exhaustion and consent.
Members become physically exhausted from talking.
The desire to speak grows out.
I sometimes put the exhaustion into three categories: physical exhaustion, political exhaustion, where you exhaust the limitations of what the voters are willing to put up with at some point with an 80-20 bill.
They see this unlimited debate, especially if they're going off on tangents, they're just delaying.
Their voters aren't going to like that, and so members give up.
Then there's also rules-based exhaustion, which is more technical.
Paragraph 1A of Senate Rule 19, originally embodied in Rule 4 of the original rules of the Senate adopted on April 16, 1787.
So, in other words, for the entirety of the Senate's existence, we've had this rule that says, well, you're on the same legislative day debating the same legislative matter.
Every senator may speak a maximum of two times in debate on that matter.
At some point, they could exhaust the number of times they're able to speak, especially when you consider the Senate may remain in the same legislative day for many calendar days.
There's a way to do that.
So, at some point, in theory, those opposed to this bill could exhaust their right to speak on this same legislative matter as long as we keep it focused on the same thing and remain on the same legislative day.
They run out of speaking slots.
So, in theory, they could run out of time there.
It's not that likely, as likely that we have that kind of exhaustion as it is political and physical exhaustion.
But at some point, they're no longer fielding senators speaking on this.
The minute that we're in debate on this matter, and they don't field speakers, nobody's standing up being recognized to speak in the Senate on this bill to debate it.
We can call the question on the bill, which means the clerk reads the roll, you take the vote, and it can pass by a simple majority.
Out today, this morning, from the Senate room, the Senate press briefing room with all the grandeur of the Senate behind him endorsing the Save America Act.
Save America Act.
So, in closing, seems like you're going to get what you want here.
Is that correct?
Well, no, you don't want to speak for Thune or anything like that.
You're talking with Thune.
We should be the only way to get it.
You're not going to get 10 Democrat senators to vote for it.
We can't count on it because not one of them have come out in support of it.
And even though Senator Fetterman made a great comment the other day that he doesn't see any good argument against voter ID, he has not come out in support of this bill yet, but it doesn't mean that he couldn't vote for it when it got to that point.
And I also don't rule out the possibility that once this is debated and has the ability to be aired, as I noted a moment ago, this bill is fascinating for many reasons.
It hasn't responded to the left's bag of tricks in the same way that the left has come to expect.
The more they throw at it, the more it becomes more popular.
So I'm not willing to rule out the possibility that some Democrat senators might change their minds on this as this is being debated.
I'm not counting on it, but I think it's entirely possible.
Because there are a lot of those senators who are in states where a lot of people do support it.
In fact, this one, Benny, cuts across Racial demographics, gender demographics, geographic, and even political demographics.
You don't get to where it's an 80-20 issue in favor of the Save America Act without a whole lot of Democrats being on board.
And this is one of the things that I find so fascinating about this spurious and absolutely shameful argument that they make that the Save America Act is somehow Jim Crow.
76% of black Americans support this.
76%.
Benny, do you know that if the Save America Act is Jim Crow, you want to know what else is Jim Crow?
The Democratic National Convention.
You have to show ID.
You cannot get into the Democratic National Convention without showing voter ID.
One of my colleagues, a senator from Georgia, recently had a campaign rally last weekend.
And it was made clear, I think on a website advertising the event, you could not get in without registering for the event and showing photo ID.
I'm still shaking.
I'm still triggered.
And this, the party of Jim Crow, literally the Democratic Party, wrote the era of Jim Crow.
That was their thing.
I think they might want to sit out the opportunity to call something Jim Crow, especially where it, number one, doesn't belong, and number two, rekindles bad stuff that that same party did a long time ago.
Benny, we didn't used to have to worry about this as much.
You know, in previous decades, if you go back far enough, it was far less common that you had people voting in precincts where they weren't known.
And then, you know, fast forward a few years, and maybe you didn't have quite the same incentives.
We put so much, it's one of the reasons why I focus so much about things like federalism and separation of powers, is that we put so many eggs in the basket of the federal government that over time people have more and more incentive, particularly with federal elections, to just go crazy, do anything and everything it takes to do it.
Then you add to that the NBRA in 1993, the way it was interpreted a couple decades later by the Supreme Court, with the Supreme Court saying if you register to vote this way, the state cannot, may not, must not, is prohibited by law from seeking any kind of verification as to a person's citizenship.
And so these things have been building.
Then the advent of issuing driver's licenses to non-citizens, including in many states, even to known illegal aliens, the ease of using the National Voter Registration Act form while applying for a driver's license to simultaneously register to vote.
All those things combined, then you put it on steroids, crack cocaine, and powder cocaine all at the same time when between 2021 and 2025, you had this massive influx of 10 to 15.
So anyway, to answer your question, how does this change?
Our elections will become secure again if we do this.
And if we don't do it, it gets much, much worse.
Some bills are more known for what they change from the status quo.
Others are more known for what they prevent moving forward.
This one will do both.
It will end a lot of the existing problems and it will forestall a massive escalation of those problems.
A mushrooming, a hockey stick curve uptick in voter fraud if we don't do it.
Benny, loss is not an option here.
We have to do this.
So to any and all within the sound of my voice, your audience, your audience is big and it's fantastic.
Thank you for following him.
He's terrific.
All who are within the sound of my voice right now, I'd just encourage you to encourage your senators, Democrat, Republican, Independent, whatever party they may belong to, regardless of what state you're in, regardless of whether you think that your senator is likely to be supportive of the Save America Act or otherwise.
Please encourage them, number one, to support it, number two, to co-sponsor it.
And number three, perhaps this is the most crucial part.
Tell them that it's important to you that we enforce the talking filibuster here.
Slay the zombie.
The zombie filibuster has no place in the world of the Save America Act.
I spoke to President Trump last night, shortly after it passed out of the House of Representatives.
He feels strongly about this too.
This is as important a bill as I think I've ever worked on.
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