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John Thune: “We forced the Democrats to vote a couple of weeks ago on the…”

Featuring: John Thune, Republican | Senate Majority Leader, South Dakota

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Thune Joins Larry Kudlow on Fox Business

Published | Video Starts at 07:56

I think you need new selling points and I think it'd be terrific. The voter, the voter ID thing, Right. That's terribly important and so popular, right? Well, it is. And I, you know, We forced the Democrats to vote a couple of weeks ago on the narrow issue of just having to use a voter id, a photo ID to vote. We didn't get any Democrat votes for that, despite the fact that many of them have been out there openly advocating for voter idea. Oh, yeah, we're for this. (07:56–08:05)

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Asserts that Republicans forced a vote on requiring photo ID for voting.

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