James Lankford: “We already have a federal law that says you cannot be a…”

“I've been a co sponsor of the SAVE act, the original act that came out in the Save America Act. This is really important to us as a nation to be able to say We already have a federal law that says you cannot be a non-citizen and vote in federal elections, but we never verify it. So this is what I call the Trust and Verify bill. It's not just trust that we hope that there's no one that's registered to vote that's not a citizen.” (00:51–01:02)

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