With just over 100 days until the November midterms, President Trump is once again turning up the heat on his own party. Over the weekend, he took to Truth Social with a message aimed squarely at Senate Majority Leader John Thune and every other Republican still on the fence: terminate the filibuster and pass the SAVE America Act, along with the budget and the debt ceiling, “before it is too late.”

It’s not the first time Trump has made this demand — he’s been pushing it for months, in speeches, in his State of the Union address, and in a steady drumbeat of Truth Social posts. But this time, he has fresh ammunition.

The New Jersey Admission

Just days before Trump’s latest post, New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill — a Democrat — confirmed something her party has downplayed for years: roughly 6,600 non-citizens were registered to vote in the state due to a software error at the Motor Vehicle Commission, and nearly 400 of them actually cast ballots in past elections. Sherrill blamed the error on a vendor glitch under her predecessor, former Gov. Phil Murphy, and said the state is working to remove the improper registrations.

For years, Democrats and much of the media insisted large-scale non-citizen registration simply didn’t happen — that it was a right-wing talking point with no basis in fact. New Jersey’s own governor just confirmed otherwise. White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson didn’t waste the opening: “Democrats and their media allies have repeatedly said it is impossible for noncitizens to register to vote, let alone cast a ballot,” she said. “Time and again, they have been proven wrong.”

To be fair, New Jersey’s numbers are small relative to the state’s overall electorate — Sherrill and other Democrats have pointed out that 400 improper votes, scattered across parties, is a tiny fraction of the millions cast statewide, and there’s no evidence any race was decided by them. But for Trump and SAVE Act supporters, the size of the number isn’t the point — the fact that it happened at all, in a state that swore it couldn’t, is.

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