Nick Corasaniti on Trump Pressuring Congress to Pass the SAVE Act: ‘This Would Actually Harm Republicans’

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CORASANITI: "I think one thing, too, about the save act is if we look at its core, this documentary, proof of citizenship, there have been studies that show that this would actually harm Republicans more than Democrats, especially in the short-term. The save democracy foundation did a study in June 2025 that found that there were much more Republican states or states that Trump did very well in that had low percentages of passports and passports under the save America act were to pass, which is again, an extreme long shot at the moment. There’s no indication that, you know, this is on the on the horizon. But were it to pass, you would see a lot of these states that have that are big. Trump supporting states struggle to find their documentary proof of citizenship. If they don’t have passports, you then need a you need a birth certificate and you need something else, some kind of photo id. And it’s also true that a lot of older, rural white voters tend to not have passports or other documentary proof of citizenship. And some more recently, naturalized citizens or or immigrants have it’s been more recent that they’ve gotten their citizenship and their papers are more in line. So if this entire act is indeed a political one and designed to help kind of, you know, bulwark the president against the the tides of low poll numbers and just the historical swing of a midterm elections after a presidential the documentary proof of citizenship provision might end up backfiring on Republicans."