EVENING VIEW FROM THE RIDGE:
THE ULTIMATE TRUMP CARD — PLAN B
President Trump just went completely nuclear behind closed doors and in public, ripping into Senate Majority Leader John Thune and demanding he grow a spine, be a leader, and GET THE VOTES for the SAVE America Act.
No more excuses and no more RINO foot-dragging. This is the common-sense election integrity bill that slams the door on non-citizen voting, demands strict proof of citizenship, and requires real voter ID—something polls show the vast majority of Americans overwhelmingly support.
House Republicans already delivered their part, but Senate Republicans, led by Thune, keep whining about the filibuster and claiming they do not have enough votes.
They hold the majority; they could nuke the filibuster and force a real debate right now. Instead, they offer watered-down garbage like ballot harvesting tweaks while watching the country get sold out again by a cheating system.
This is not leadership—this is cowardice from a GOP establishment that talks tough on the campaign trail but folds when it counts.
The betrayal runs deep, and Trump has made it clear: no more bills will pass until SAVE passes.
Non-citizens voting, lax ID rules, and open manipulation of our elections have been tolerated for far too long, and every delay is another direct slap in the face to legal American voters.
The Senate crew needs to stop protecting their precious procedural rules and start protecting the Republic.
Nuke the filibuster if you have to, deliver the bill, or get the hell out of the way.
Trump is not bluffing, and he has already called this an explicit national emergency, going so far as to cancel the signing of a major bipartisan housing bill to force their hand.
The President does not need Congress’s permission to defend the integrity of federal elections when the legislative branch fails.
If the Senate refuses to act and lets this warning fall on deaf ears, Trump’s Plan B is already in motion and it will not be pretty for the RINOs. Executive orders on citizenship verification and federal data-sharing with states are already moving.
The administration is ready to apply aggressive pressure on every state to clean their voter rolls, deploy the Department of Justice against fraud enablers, and utilize budget reconciliation maneuvers to bypass the filibuster entirely.
The midterms are coming, and the American people are watching this circus to see exactly who sells out our elections. Any holdout or RINO weakling standing in the way will pay a severe political price through withheld endorsements, aggressive primary challenges, and public exposure.
Deliver the bill or get out of the way while Trump secures our democracy the hard way. Your time is up.
J.T. ~ Voice of Reason