Karl Rove: Federal government mandating Voter ID sets bad precedents
Brian Kilmeade Show
FOX News Podcasts
4.1 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Let's bring in Carl Rove as he joins us. |
| 0:03.4 | He is Fox News contributor of Washington Wall Street Journal columnist. |
| 0:07.7 | Carl, welcome back. |
| 0:08.7 | Were you surprised Howard Enton doing the polls? |
| 0:12.5 | Over 70% of the country want to see voter ID? |
| 0:16.3 | How do we get it across the finish line? |
| 0:18.7 | Yeah, well, first of all, this is not new go back over you know the |
| 0:22.5 | polling for this for years has been you know it's common sense i mean how many of us get to write a |
| 0:28.0 | check without showing an id nobody of us get to board an airplane without doing an id how many of us |
| 0:33.7 | when we go to pick something up at the you know know, UPS store don't have to show idea? |
| 0:38.3 | I mean, look, it's common sense. |
| 0:40.4 | But the Democrats, for some reason or another, are just stuck on this because they think that it is either the damaging to people of color, which is not shown in the polls. |
| 0:51.1 | They don't think so. |
| 0:51.9 | Or they want to keep it alive to keep the left of their |
| 0:55.2 | party energized by saying that it is an attempt to depress a voter turnout among people of color. |
| 1:04.3 | This is what they say about the Save Act. Listen to Senator Chuck Schumer, cut 13. |
| 1:09.4 | The Senate did its job to fund 96% of the government while splitting the DHS bill from the rest of the funding package so we can rain in ice and end the violence. |
| 1:21.2 | Now it's the House's turn to do its job. |
| 1:24.1 | But a band of MAGA radicals want to hijack government funding to push an outlandishly toxic bill called the SAVE Act that would disenfranchise millions of American citizens. |
| 1:35.9 | I don't know what he's referring to. Are you a supporter of the SAVE Act? |
| 1:40.3 | I have a concern, which is the Constitution leaves the manner of the elections to the states. |
| 1:47.0 | And I'm reluctant to say that the federal government ought to step in and tell the states what to do in running their elections. |
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