Trump Wants to Change How We Vote. Will He Succeed?
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🗓️ 20 March 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From the New York Times, I'm Rachel Abrams, and this is The Daily. |
| 0:10.1 | This week, the Senate is debating the Save America Act. |
| 0:14.0 | We're going to save America. The Save America. How can they fight us? The Save America Act. |
| 0:21.8 | A bill that could overhaul who gets to vote, and the President Trump has called his number one priority. |
| 0:27.2 | They have to get it done because if we don't get this done, I'm for, if it takes you six months, I'm for not approving anything. |
| 0:34.5 | I'm for not approving anything. I don't think we should approve anything until this is |
| 0:38.2 | approved. Today, I speak with my colleagues, Michael Gold, about the bill and why some Republicans |
| 0:44.7 | are standing against the president to block it, and Nick Khorasiniti about the administration's |
| 0:49.7 | other plans to try and reshape the electoral process whether or not the bill fails. |
| 0:58.4 | It's Friday, March 20th. |
| 1:06.3 | Michael Gold, welcome back to the Daily. |
| 1:08.9 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:10.2 | I appreciate that you're talking to us in the Capitol with a picture of the Capitol behind you. |
| 1:14.8 | Are you in a sound booth or something? |
| 1:16.9 | I'm in a sound booth with a picture of a Capitol so that I never forget where I am, which in this building is not insignificant. |
| 1:23.4 | It's pretty big around here. |
| 1:25.2 | So it's 2.30 on Thursday afternoon. |
| 1:27.3 | And the reason you are at the Capitol is that you've spent all day so far covering the deliberations over the Save America Act, which we expect to be voted on in the Senate at some point in the coming days. |
| 1:37.9 | Can you just start by describing what the Save America Act actually is and what it would do? |
| 1:43.6 | So the Save America Act is this big elections bill |
| 1:47.8 | that President Trump has been pushing for. And it has a few basic provisions, all of which follow what |
| 1:53.7 | the president is looking for on voter identification and voter registration. So the bill would |
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