The poll numbers are in, and they don’t leave any room for the usual excuses. Eighty-three percent of registered American voters support requiring photo ID proving citizenship before someone can register to vote. Seventy-seven percent support requiring it before casting a ballot.
Among Democrats — the very voters their own party claims would be harmed by voter ID — support stands at 72% for registration and 62% for voting.
Hispanic voters back it 85%. Voters under 30 back it 82%. The demographic groups Democrats most love to invoke when attacking voter ID as racist voter suppression are supporting voter ID by overwhelming margins.
This isn’t a Fox News talking point. This is a Fox News poll — conducted July 17 through July 20, right after Trump’s primetime address on election integrity, and covering over a thousand registered voters across the political spectrum. The numbers are so lopsided that Bret Baier called them “pretty overwhelming” on live television and Ben Domenech of The Federalist — a conservative commentator, not a party operative — expressed genuine bafflement that Republicans aren’t hammering this issue in every district in America.
? HUGE: Fox’s @BretBaier: “Our latest Fox News poll is pretty OVERWHELMING” with support for voter I.D at 83% favoring the photo I.D. mandate. Even 72% of Democrats support it. “This is rich territory as we get closer to the midterms.”
Ben Domenech adds: “It is rich territory… pic.twitter.com/uwDEyWRUNl
— TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) July 24, 2026
“I don’t know why Republicans aren’t going around the country and talking about it more,” Domenech said. “This is classic Republican politics. You find 80/20 issues and you lean into them as hard as you can. This is stuff the American people believe is rational and reasonable.”
He’s right. And the answer to his bafflement lives in the United States Senate, where the SAVE America Act has been stalled since a cloture vote failed 53-47 on March 26 — seven votes short of the 60 needed because the filibuster threshold that John Thune refuses to touch protects Democratic obstruction of a bill that 72% of Democratic voters support.
Let’s state that contradiction as plainly as it deserves to be stated. Democratic senators are blocking legislation that their own voters support by enormous margins. They are maintaining that voter ID is racist voter suppression in the face of polling that shows 85% of Hispanic voters disagree with them. They are protecting a position that is politically, demographically, and morally indefensible — and they’re only able to do it because John Thune won’t use the tools available to him to end the obstruction.
Senator Roger Marshall’s (R-Kansas) proposal is exactly right: force separate votes on voter ID, proof of citizenship, and mail-ballot restrictions. Make every Senate Democrat go on the record against requirements supported by 83% of Americans. Make them explain to their Hispanic constituents why they’re voting against something 85% of Hispanic voters support. Make them justify to voters under 30 why they’re blocking something 82% of young Americans want.
That’s not difficult politics. That’s a layup.
The SAVE America Act passed the House 218-213. The public supports it overwhelmingly. The polling is historic.
