Republicans Spar Amid Latest SAVE Push

WASHINGTON—The SAVE America Act, which would require voter ID in elections and citizenship verification in voter registration, has a champion in President Donald Trump, who has refused to sign a major housing bill until the Senate advances the election integrity legislation.
Yet, the prospects of passage anytime soon seem to be dimming.
The measure, which polling suggests is popular with many Americans, has already made it through the House of Representatives. It has stalled in the Senate for months.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) has faced Republican defectors on the bill and resisted a risky procedural maneuver that the bill’s proponents believe could deliver a victory. Those considerations have not assuaged the diehard SAVE advocates…. 

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