Daily Wire host admits if the SAVE Act becomes law, “fewer actual American citizens will end up voting”
Matt Walsh: “I see that as a good thing”
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From the February 12, 2026, edition of The Daily Wire's The Matt Walsh Show
MATT WALSH (HOST): All that said, I'll also say this. It is true, and conservatives should admit that it's true, that this bill will have the ultimate effect of preventing a certain percentage of actual American citizens from voting.
That will -- that's not -- it doesn't directly do that. That's not the intent of the bill, but it is true that if you -- if this bill is put into place, if it actually becomes law, then the effect will be that next time around, fewer actual American citizens will end up voting. Again, it doesn't do it directly, and it's not race-based. It's not sexist. So all that is a lie, but it does set up a process, a really simple process you have to follow, and if you don't follow it, you can't vote.
And the truth is that a certain percentage of Americans will not follow that process, and so, yeah, they're not gonna -- they will not be able to vote. They could follow it, so it's not -- like, disenfranchising is you're not allowed to vote. No. You can. You just like, here's the thing that everyone is doing in order to vote. You can do it or don't do it. If you don't do it, you can't vote.
But I see that as a good thing.
Now I understand why most Republicans don't want to make this argument in particular for politically, but when they say that, oh, I -- the study, this study, the civil rights group did a study and it says that, you know, 14% or whatever of voters will not end up voting because this law is in place. When I hear that, most Republicans hear that and say, oh, that's nonsense. That's like -- I hear that I go good. Oh, 14%. I wish it was 40%. Fantastic. OK. Because all that means is that the people who are too stupid and too incompetent and too clueless or too lazy to follow this really basic process are not able to vote. And it's good if incompetent, stupid, lazy people are not able to vote. It's better if they don't vote. I'm glad they can't. I'm happy about that.
So if we get around to, you know, we get around to elections and there are Americans, I can't vote because this -- my answer is good. I'm glad you can't go home. You should not vote. You're too stupid and incompetent. You haven't -- you should not -- you shouldn't even have the right to vote. If it were up to me, I would just take the right away from you. What I would do if it were up to me is every single person who's not able to vote because of voter ID laws, not only can they not vote, but now you're never allowed to vote because you've revealed yourself to be stupid, incompetent, foolish, just unable to operate as an adult in society, and so you should not have the right to vote. That's what I would do.