
A black Republican woman refuted a white Democratic manâs suggestion Wednesday that a voter identification law was probably designed to stop minorities from voting.
The black womanâs rebuttal occurred during a voter panel on Fox Newsâ âThe Will Cain Show.â It followed the Democratic panelist characterizing the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act as a âvoter suppressionâ bill.
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âAn act like the SAVE Act is very likely more aimed at voter suppression and at keeping key demographics that the Republican Party does not want voting to not show out and vote,â the Democrat said.
Host Will Cain asked which demographics the Democrat was referring to.
âI think very often minority demographics,â he said.
âThatâs not true,â the black woman retorted.
Cain asked if she had identification and proof of citizenship.
âYeah. And if I need a copy of my birth certificate, itâs just a matter of going online or going up to the department and asking for it. And showing my information to get it,â she said. âTo say that it would negatively affect a minority group because theyâre somehow not educated enough to get these documents is completely outrageous.â
The SAVE Act would require proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has repeatedly described the bill as âJim Crow 2.0.â
However, SiriusXM host Stephen A. Smith and comedian Bill Maher warned Schumer that his rhetoric would backfire and benefit President Donald Trump during a Feb. 4 episode of âStraight Shooter with Stephen A.â
âDonât engage in that kind of hyperbole. Because weâre living in the year 2026. And when you start bringing up âJim Crow 2.0,â youâre trying to hearken back to a time that most people recognize â no, weâre not living in those times right now,â Smith said. âOf course weâve got our troubles ⌠Donât do that because thatâs playing right into Trumpâs hands.â
Maher agreed, saying it was âfoolishâ for Schumer to claim the bill was racist and he should not âengage in the kind of hyperbole thatâs just going to bite you in the ass.â
CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten also said on âCNN News Centralâ Feb. 3 that white, black and Latino Americans all backed mandating photo identification to vote.
âI think a lot of people make the argument that people of color, non-white Americans have a harder time procuring a photo ID to vote,â Enten said. âBut even here, take a look here, favor photo ID to vote: 85% of white people favor it, 82% of Latino, 76% of black Americans favor it.â
The SAVE Act passed the House in April 2025, but it has since stalled in the Senate.
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