Adam Schiff confronted on overwhelming support for photo ID voting requirements

Sen. Adam Schiff, D-California, was confronted with a ballot displaying a majority of Individuals favor picture IDs to vote — which the liberal senator mentioned would disenfranchise voters.

ABC’s Jonathan Karl started asking Schiff if Democrats and Republicans may attain a compromise on displaying picture ID when voting as Republicans push the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act. Some Democrats are evaluating the SAVE Act to “Jim Crow 2.0.”

“Jonathan, what you simply requested is basically this: The Republicans have created mistrust within the elections by making claims of non-existent fraud within the elections, and should not we use the mistrust they’ve created to go a voter suppression regulation, particularly the SAVE Act, which requires folks to have a start certificates or passport – paperwork that thousands and thousands of Individuals haven’t got. Almost half the nation would not have a passport, and I do not know the place many thousands and thousands of individuals would even search for a start certificates,” Schiff responded.

Senator Adam Schiff on “The Late Present” on July 17, 2025. ABC host Jonathan Karl on “Good Morning America” ​​on April 3, 2023. (Scott Kowalchyk/CBS through JO Getty Pictures; Michael Le Brecht II/ABC through Getty Pictures)

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Karl mentioned he requested Schiff one other query, particularly about whether or not he would help picture ID.

“However I requested you one other query: a photograph ID. As a result of, as you already know, let’s present there was a ballot just lately, there’s been numerous polls on this, however in a latest Pew ballot, 83% of adults help requiring a photograph ID to vote. Seventy-one p.c of Democrats help requiring a photograph ID,” Karl mentioned. “Is that one thing you will get behind? And if not, why?”

Schiff argued that it will nonetheless disenfranchise folks.

Sen. Adam Schiff, D-CA, speaks to reporters outdoors the U.S. Capitol, Wednesday, September 17, 2025. (Breanne Deppisch/Fox Information Digital)

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“It is nonetheless going to be one thing that disenfranchises individuals who haven’t got the correct actual ID, driver’s license ID, who haven’t got the ID required to vote despite the fact that they’re residents. That is one other solution to merely attempt to suppress the vote,” Schiff mentioned.

The Pew Analysis ballot, performed in August 2025, discovered that 95% of Republicans help displaying identification when voting.

Schiff added, “And the very last thing I feel we wish to do is discourage extra residents from voting whereas they’re attacking those self same elections, whereas they’re making an attempt to get rid of absentee voting, whereas they’re making an attempt to get rid of the flexibility to register to vote by the DMV or by mail. So it is a part of the broader effort to disenfranchise voting, and no, I do not suppose that is the fitting path.”

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has mentioned the SAVE Act represented “Jim Crow 2.0.”

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“For instance, should you change – you’re a girl who’s married and has modified your final title, you can not present ID and you may be discriminated towards. In the event you can’t discover a start certificates or a legitimate ID, you may be discriminated towards. That is imply and nasty. And I informed our Republican colleagues, it won’t go the Senate. You’ll not get a single Democratic vote within the Senate. We’re not reviving Jim Crow throughout the nation. And when When the American folks hear what precisely it’s doing and no matter it plans to do, they’ll be towards it,” Schumer mentioned Thursday throughout an look on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe.”

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