“Democrat Senators are grotesquely out of touch with Americans. They’ve been so laser focused on advocating for foreign nationals (including criminal aliens) that they’ve become completely disconnected from reality.”
Starting around 2011, North Carolina became a case study on the lengths Democrats and their affiliated special interest groups would go to stop the passage of voter ID bills, ramping up their inflammatory rhetoric after a GOP-backed bill was signed into law by then-Gov. Pat McCrory (R) in 2013.
The state was also hit with lawsuits, but ultimately prevailed, even after the 2013 law was overturned by the 4th Circuit Court in 2016. In 2018, a constitutional amendment on voter ID was approved by voters. Although the less stringent bill that arose from it was also challenged in the courts, that challenge eventually failed. Voter ID is now the law in North Carolina – one of 36 states to have some form of it on the books.
What Democrats didn’t like to talk about at the time, just as they don’t now amid the debate over the SAVE America Act, is that voter ID was popular in North Carolina across the board. It remains so throughout the country, even after decades of media-assisted demagoguery and fearmongering.
As evidence, let’s first take a look at an analysis by CNN data guru Harry Enten from February of polling data over the years on voter ID. Here’s what he found:
“What’s the racial breakdown on this? Because I 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,” Enten said. “But 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.”