And perhaps most importantly, I'm asking you to approve the Save America Act.

To stop illegal aliens and others who are unpermitted persons from voting in our sacred

American elections that cheating is rampant in our elections.

It's rampant.

I get it.

It's five o'clock in New York. I'm Ali Velshi in today for Nicole Wallace.

And before we go on a quick point of order, what Donald Trump just said there was a flat out lie.

Of course, that's never stopped him from repeating it, nor did it stop his cheerleaders in Congress from reacting to it with raucas applause during last night's State of the Union address.

But it's not their clapping that's worth our focus this afternoon. It's actually their

lawmaking. You heard Trump there promoting something that we mentioned with Senator

Klobuchar last hour, what's called the Save Act, a Republican solution which is in search

of a problem, a fix for something Donald Trump made up in the aftermath of his electoral defeat

in 2020. Once more, for the people in the back, claims of widespread voter fraud have been

wholly debunked again and again and again year after year after year. And yet the GOP is right

now fighting tooth and nail to put something on Donald Trump's desk

that could potentially disenfranchise 21 million, up to 21 million American voters, in the name of solving a fake problem.

To underscore the ridiculous nature of that pursuit, consider what's happening here in Fulton County, Georgia.

That's Atlanta.

The state election board there is once again

wrapped up in review of years-old election results thanks to a federal subpoena, search, and seizure

of related materials. Well, the Republican-appointed chair of that board in a conversation

with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution podcast says there's a lot of political theater going on.

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