{"id":63160,"date":"2026-03-13T15:52:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T19:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=63160"},"modified":"2026-03-13T15:52:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T19:52:01","slug":"why-should-anyone-vote-for-a-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=63160","title":{"rendered":"Why Should Anyone Vote For A Republican?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, The Washington Examiner<\/a> posted the following headline:<\/p>\n

GOP failure to pass SAVE Act shows why Trump was elected<\/h1>\n

I totally agree. We elected Republicans to the White House, the House of Representatives, and the Senate, and we still can’t get a Republican agenda passed in Washington. We need new Republicans. We identified the fraud, but the bloated budget is still with us. The House passed a law to increase election integrity, but the law can’t even get a hearing in the Senate despite having 80 percent plus approval from both parties. If if does come to the floor, there is no guarantee it will pass.<\/p>\n

The article notes:<\/p>\n

Trump captured, and still dominates, the hearts and minds of the party faithful because establishment Republicans<\/a> refused to lead. For decades, the base elected politicians who promised to do one thing, then got to Washington and did something else \u2014 or nothing at all. These faithless politicians are still with us and still blocking the progress America needs, guaranteeing that Trump-style disruption is both here to stay and destined to intensify.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In late February, a small group of Republican senators majorly delayed, and may have even killed, one of the Right\u2019s top priorities \u2014 the SAVE Act.<\/a> The bill would require that voters show valid identification before casting a ballot<\/a> in federal elections. It would also require people to show proof of citizenship when registering to vote.\u00a0Gallup polling\u00a0shows that more than 4 out of 5 Americans<\/a> support these reforms. Even people who dispute Trump\u2019s assertions of widespread fraud still support these measures to protect the integrity of the ballot box. This is basic, even obvious, stuff.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But four Senate Republicans said no \u2014 not only to the president, but to their own voters as well as the vast majority of the nation. Using a procedural tactic, Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Thom Tillis (R-NC), and\u00a0John\u00a0Curtis (R-UT)\u00a0refused to allow<\/a>\u00a0an open debate on the Senate floor about the SAVE Act. Tillis is a co-sponsor of the SAVE Act, but now that it\u2019s in the news and Trump is demanding action, the senator won\u2019t even let his colleagues discuss it on the record. That\u2019s right: The 53-member GOP Senate majority can\u2019t bring its own bill up for a vote. It\u2019s not clear when, or if, that will ever happen.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

Obviously, there are complicated realities to passing legislation, the filibuster chief among them<\/a>. But somehow, Democrats don\u2019t have as many problems passing their priorities: Obamacare, Dodd-Frank, and former President Joe Biden\u2019s multiple spending blowouts. They at least know how to bring big bills up for a vote. The GOP, even mostly transformed by Trump, still struggles to get that far.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The president isn\u2019t the one standing in the way. It\u2019s the lesser Republicans who never get tired of doing nothing, the wrong thing, or both. So long as they block even basic and wildly popular reforms<\/a> such as voter identification, the base will demand the intensification of the MAGA revolution. Like so many other Republicans over the past decade, the current naysaying senators think they\u2019re standing up to Trump. In fact, they\u2019re empowering him and ensuring that voters elect more leaders like him.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What is the point of electing Republicans if they can’t do what they were elected to do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, The Washington Examiner posted the following headline: GOP failure to pass SAVE Act shows why Trump was elected I totally agree. We elected Republicans to the White House, the House of Representatives, and the Senate, and we still … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[735,6345,4212,19223,2720],"class_list":["post-63160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-congress","tag-establishment-republicans","tag-republican-party","tag-the-save-act","tag-the-washington-examiner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63161,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63160\/revisions\/63161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}