Trump’s Message After LA Vote Count Disaster: ‘Pass the SAVE America Act’

President Donald Trump is renewing his call to pass the SAVE America Act to secure elections after late-arriving ballots in the Los Angeles mayoral election flipped the race against the Republican candidate.

“The chaos happening in California only further underscores what the president has said many times – pass the SAVE America Act,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told the Daily Signal.

Republican candidate Spencer Pratt initially ran ahead of Democrat candidate Nithya Raman for second place in the election night tally, behind incumbent Mayor Karen Bass. The state’s primaries allow the top two vote recipients to advance to the general election.

However, subsequent mail-in ballot batches that arrived up to a week after election day—in compliance with state law—heavily favored Raman, even over Bass, and Pratt’s lead evaporated. On Monday, The Associated Press declared that Raman will advance to the runoff election against Bass, who is also a registered Democrat.

The SAVE America Act would mandate photo identification and proof of citizenship in federal elections and require local governments to regularly purge their voter rolls.

“The SAVE America Act has always been a top priority for President Trump, and it remains one,” Jackson said. “This is commonsense legislation, supported by the vast majority of Americans, that will secure our elections for generations to come.”

However, four Senate Republicans joined Democrats in successfully voting to keep the voter ID provision out of reconciliation.

As a result, Congress’ only remaining option to pass the SAVE Act is to terminate the filibuster, something Senate Majority Leader John Thune has repeatedly expressed opposition to.

In fact, Thune encouraged senators to stop talking about Trump’s stated priority of ending the filibuster, The Daily Signal reported in April.

Trump has repeatedly demanded that Republicans eliminate the filibuster to require only a simple majority vote to pass key agenda items, instead of needing the customary 60 votes to end debate.

After Pratt’s loss, Trump took to Truth Social to call the mayoral election rigged.

“Not possible for Spencer Pratt to have lost the L.A. runoffs after the big lead he had,” Trump wrote. “3rd World Nation. Rigged Elections!”

“Now they’ll be working on great guy Steve Hilton,” he said of the Republican gubernatorial candidate. “Won’t have results for, possibly, TWO WEEKS, according to officials.”