Name: Trump to NTD: We need SAVE America Act for Elections
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Description: NTD White House Correspondent Iris Tao asked President Donald Trump on Thursday about his latest push to add the SAVE America Act to the Pentagon reconciliation package, which only needs a simple GOP majority to pass, ahead of the midterms.

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NTD White House Correspondent Iris Tao asked President Donald Trump on Thursday about his latest push to add the SAVE America Act to the Pentagon reconciliation package, which only needs a simple GOP majority to pass, ahead of the midterms.

“We need it for our elections. We need to have voter identification, which we don't have right now on a national basis,” Trump said to NTD.

“You look at California, they send out millions of ballots, tens of millions. They have no idea what's going on. Those elections are so corrupt,” Trump said of recent California primaries.

Also on Thursday, a fisherman was in tears as he thanked Trump for signing a proclamation to bring fishing back to the USA.

Tao asked Trump how directly listening to everyday Americans influences his policies. He told NTD:

“These people built the country, not the complainers…Me, guys like me, they built the country.”

“Look at what's happened in Minnesota, Somalia. All these people came in from Somalia; they ripped off our system."

He went on to talk about elections: “I won Minnesota three times easily. I won almost every county, but they didn't give it to me. It's a corrupt system, very corrupt state.”

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