Basil Smikle on the SAVE Act: It’s Less About Policy and More About ‘I Want the Accolades’ to Run Again When He Can’t Run Again

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SMIKLE: "Well, you know, it’s interesting because any other president and in fact, any other speaker would do anything that everything they needed to do to protect their members, that’s what they do, right? They would they would create legislation, sign legislation. What’s interesting is that legislatively, you know, he’s not doing that. But, you know, they are having a midterm, mid midterm convention in Texas this year. And the reason that that’s important is because it’s less about policy and more about I want the accolades, I want the adulation to try and run again when he can’t run again. But let me speak a little bit about the legislation itself. Yeah, because there are two pieces to this. The SAVE Act is, is a really draconian act. But the fact that so many people feel that their votes might be disenfranchized, that they may be disenfranchized, their vote might not, might not count, is actually, in my view, pushing an overperformance of Democrats because they want to make sure that their votes count, given what’s coming out of D.C.. on the flip side, the housing act is critically important because it gets rid of the private equity and invest in institutional investors in housing that are buying up large, large amounts of property. It’s actually making, in many ways housing more affordable, particularly in the suburbs that are 5 or 6 times now the cost of housing, 5 or 6 times the cost of median income. That’s important because Democrats see this bill as an opportunity for for affordable housing. Republicans see it as an opportunity for reduced regulation and construction. There’s something for everybody. And he chose not to sign it. Yeah."