EXCLUSIVE: Republicans are at a crossroads for whether they’ll try to implement national election changes, or whether they can finally let the 2020 election go.
For one brief moment last week inside a conference room on Capitol Hill, it was November 2020 all over again.
Although Speaker Kevin McCarthy vowed ahead of the 2022 election that Republicans would prioritize “election integrity” if they won power, there are so far few signs of movement or broad appetite within the House GOP to take action on the issue. When asked by The Daily Beast about the status of election bills, even Greene distanced Republicans from the issue, citing concerns over federalism. “Our voters don’t want it to go away,” she said. “So it should never go away. But we aren’t controlling state elections.”
The results of the 2022 midterm election, in which voters delivered stinging rebukes of candidates who campaigned heavily on denying the 2020 election, should serve as a warning sign to Republican lawmakers, said Rep. Don Bacon . Of course, anything that passes the House would have to win the approval of the Democratic-controlled Senate and President Joe Biden to become law. That means GOP moves on elections are, for now, mostly politically symbolic—which may point to a deeper issue behind the party’s caution.
Given Congress’ purview over the nation’s capital, the bill would also apply a number of GOP-supported election changes to the District of Columbia, including broad restrictions on the use of ballot drop boxes and curtailing of mail-in voting, with an eye toward encouraging states to adopt similar policies.
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick , a leading GOP moderate, said he intends to introduce a national voter ID bill and intends to recruit a Democratic co-sponsor. “I’m not sure beyond that,” he said. Good’s bill, which is co-sponsored by fellow Freedom Caucus members Reps. Scott Perry and Mary Miller , blocks jurisdictions from receiving federal grant money unless they implement a number of changes.
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