Hey, it's Will Salatin from the bulwark. Serious topic, we got to talk about the Republican plan

to de-legitimize this year's elections. So here's where we are. Donald Trump and Republicans are

claiming that Democrats support voter fraud because they're refusing to go along with the Save America Act.

Here's Trump talking about it in his State of the Union address on Tuesday.

It's very simple. All voters must show voter ID.

So that is the centerpiece of the act, voter ID.

But what Trump didn't mention is the House already passed a version of that bill last year,

which would require an ID to register to vote.

So they already passed that.

The new version says, even though you already presented an ID to register,

and they have your information in the system, you have to bring an ID again on election day.

And the trick is, if Democrats go along with that, Republicans are going to keep going. They'll

keep adding hassles and demands until Democrats say,

no, no, no, that's too much. And the point of this whole exercise is to get Democrats, to say no

to something. So Republicans can say, see, the Democrats just want to cheat. What I want to show you today is

where all of this is going. The goal is Trump and the Republicans want you to believe not just that

Democrats cheat, but that cheating is the only way Democrats can win elections. And if they can get you

to believe that, or if they can get the public to

believe that, then when Democrats do win this year's elections, Trump and the Republicans can

claim that they don't have to accept the results because Democrats cheated. Now, I know that may

sound alarmist. So let me take you through it. Here's what Trump said

in his state of the union about the Democrats. Why would anybody not one voter ID? One reason,

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