Lauren Boebert Guest-Hosts OAN Show to Push Voter-ID Legislation

Republican Representative Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) served as guest host on former Representative Matt Gaetz’s primetime program on the pro-MAGA network One America News (OAN). The broadcast featured Republican Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), election attorney Cleta Mitchell, comedian Rob Schneider, Citizens Alliance chief Cliff Maloney, and Christian singer Sean Feucht. Boebert framed the discussion around “rampant” non-citizen voting and the alleged agenda of the Democratic Socialists of America to “tear up the Constitution.” She cited a New Jersey incident in which 6,600 non-citizens were mistakenly registered, a mistake Governor Mikie Sherrill attributed to a Motor Vehicle Commission software error.

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Boebert reiterated her support for the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, which would tighten voter-identification requirements and limit the documents acceptable for voter registration. The proposal has sparked a clash between Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and former President Donald Trump, who urges the Senate to pass the bill before its August recess. The legislation has been debated repeatedly on the Senate floor without a final vote.

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• Lauren Boebert – U.S. Representative from Colorado, guest host promoting stricter voter-ID rules.

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• Matt Gaetz – Former Representative from Florida, resigned after a withdrawn Attorney-General nomination; subject of a 2021 House Ethics Committee investigation that found evidence of sexual activity with a 17-year-old and illegal drug use from 2017-2019.

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• John Thune – Senate Majority Leader, vocal about the bill’s repeated floor consideration.

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• Mikie Sherrill – Governor of New Jersey, confirmed the non-citizen registration error and linked it to a software glitch.

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Governor Sherrill publicly attributed the New Jersey registration mishap to a state-level system error, emphasizing that the issue was technical rather than intentional fraud.

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• “We voted on it two, three, four, five times already, had it up on the floor for an extended period of time. Show me how this ends. What’s the picture of victory at the end?” — Thune

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