From Fox News: Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., was confronted by a poll that found a majority of Americans support requiring photo ID to vote — which the liberal senator said would disenfranchise voters.
ABC’s Jonathan Karl began by asking Schiff about whether Democrats and Republicans could reach a compromise on supporting showing photo ID when voting, as Republicans are pushing the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act. Some Democrats are comparing the SAVE Act to “Jim Crow 2.0.”
“Jonathan, what you’ve just asked is essentially: Republicans have created distrust in the elections by making claims of nonexistent fraud in the elections, and shouldn’t we use the distrust they’ve created in order to enact a voter suppression law, which is the SAVE Act, which would require people to have a birth certificate or passport — documents that millions of Americans don’t have. Almost half the country doesn’t have a passport, and I don’t know where many millions of people would even find a birth certificate,” Schiff responded.
Schiff, 65 – who has served as an elected government official for nearly 30 years – claims he doesn’t know “where millions of people would find a birth certificate.” In fact, all U.S. citizens can order a copy of their birth certificate from their state’s vital records office.
Karl pushed back, telling Schiff, “But I was asking you a different question: photo ID. Because, as you know, let’s show there was a recent poll, there’s been a lot of polls on this, but in one recent Pew poll, 83% of adults support requiring photo ID to vote. Seventy-one percent of Democrats favor requiring photo ID. Is that something that you can support? And if not, why?”
Schiff still claims people are too dumb to obtain a proper ID.
“It’s still going to be something that disenfranchises people that don’t have the proper Real ID, driver’s license ID, that don’t have the ID necessary to vote, even though they are citizens. This is another way to simply try to suppress the vote,” the Democrat senator wildly claimed.
“And the last thing I think we want to do is discourage more citizens from voting while they’re attacking those same elections, while they’re trying to do away with absentee ballot voting, while they’re trying to do away with being able to register to vote through the DMV or by the mail. So, it’s part of the broader disenfranchisement effort, and no, I don’t think that’s the right direction,” Schiff insisted.
The report points to an August 2025 Pew Research poll, which found that 83% of all Americans and 95% of Republicans support showing government-issued photo identification to vote.
WATCH the jaw-dropping exchange below:
Sen. Adam Schiff says voter ID is “part of the broader disenfranchisement effort.” pic.twitter.com/NR61sAozWW
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) February 8, 2026
Fox News analyst Brit Hume commented, “Nearly everything Schiff says here is false, like so much of what he has said going back to his dishonest pronouncements about Trump/Russia collusion. Yet many media journalists continue to pay attention to his views.”
Nearly everything Schiff says here is false, like so much of what he has said going back to his dishonest pronouncements about Trump/Russia collusion. Yet many media journalists continue to pay attention to his views. https://t.co/Exsr3Xu7Sk
— Brit Hume (@brithume) February 8, 2026
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