WASHNGTON — The U.S. Senate failed to pass President Trump ’s priority proposal to suppress voter participation with new poll policing. Republicans managed a 51-48 majority, but the bill needed 60 votes to pass. Trump had issued an ultimatum: Pass the bill or he would veto and all other bills coming from Congress. His urgency has been to discourage unfriendly voters from the polls in this November mid-terms and likely ending his current slim margins in Congress. Also he is avenging his 2020 loss of the presidency. He has manufactured a claim that he lost in 2020 because Democrats cheated, although he has no evidence to support the claim. Countless studies have refuted his claim. And Trump’s legal challenges to the 2020 results — 60 lawsuits total — have failed in the courts. Here is how Minnesota and Wisconsin senators voted on the bill:
To suppress voting
> Ron Johnson, R-Wisconsin
Against
> Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin
> Amy Klobuchar, D-Minnesota
> Tina Smih, D-Minnesota