Trump says GOP must 'fight like hell' to pass SAVE Act

President Trump stressed the importance of the SAVE Act in a press conference on Monday evening, noting how well the piece of legislation polls among voters across the political aisle while remaining unpopular with Democrats in Congress "because they cheat."

Trump stressed the five points of the SAVE Act, which he called the SAVE America Act, which include newer sections regarding trans-identified males in women’s sports and sex changes for children.

"We want voter ID. We want to be able to see a picture of the voter. We want to be able to see that the voter is legitimate. We want, very importantly, confirmation that this voter is a citizen of the United States. And we want no mail-in ballot scams," he said, adding that there were exceptions to the mail-in ballot section for military members, those sick, and others away for reasons that include business trips and vacations.

"We’ve added two things to it: no men in women’s sports and no transgender mutilization of our children. We don’t want our, it’s mutilization of our children, and we don’t want that. So we added those two things. That’s the five points."

"We have five very good points. It polls at 86 percent with Democrats. Think of that, the overall vote is 86 percent. With Republicans, it’s 98 percent. And the one opposed to it is Democrat leadership, because they cheat. They want to cheat.

He later added, "We’re going for the gold, and we’re going to have to fight like hell." 

He said that "nobody has a system of mail-in ballots like we have. No other country in the world. France went away from it. They all went, you know why? Because it’s corrupt. And Jimmy Carter, when he had a commission, frankly, I think it's probably the best thing Jimmy Carter did. He said you can't have mail in voting because it's inherently dishonest, and it's turned out to be totally dishonest, so we're going to fight for it."