The ladies of ABC’s The View went after the SAVE America Act recently, and Whoopi Goldberg made a claim so detached from reality that it left even her own co-hosts scrambling.
Goldberg looked straight into the camera and said what millions of Americans want simply doesn’t exist.
And the numbers tell a very different story.
The whole thing started when President Trump canceled a planned signing ceremony for a bipartisan housing bill, posting on Truth Social that the event was “hereby canceled until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT, which I consider to be a National Emergency.” Trump has made clear for months that election integrity comes first, and he’s using every tool at his disposal to force Congress to act.
The SAVE America Act — the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act — requires voters to provide documentary proof of citizenship at the time of registration and a photo ID at the time of voting. The SAVE America Act was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in February 2026. It’s a commonsense measure to ensure only American citizens decide American elections. The bill is stalled in the Senate, where it needs 60 votes to clear a filibuster, and a handful of left-leaning Republican senators have been using their votes as a political weapon against the President rather than doing what their constituents sent them to Washington, DC to do.
That’s the backdrop Goldberg walked into. And her response was to insist the whole thing was pointless.
Goldberg declared it would “force people to have ID when they come to vote. Nobody wants it.” Co-host Joy Behar echoed her, repeating, “Nobody wants it.”
But here’s the thing. Around 80 percent of Americans support the basic tenets of voter ID in the SAVE America Act. That’s not a talking point — that’s the polling data.
An August 2025 Pew Research Center study found that 83% of U.S. adults support requiring all voters to show government-issued photo identification at the polls, while only 16% oppose the requirement. And it gets better. Gallup found similarly broad support in October 2024, with 84% of U.S. adults in favor of photo ID requirements — including 98% of Republicans, 84% of independents, and 67% of Democrats.
Sixty-seven percent of Democrats. The people Goldberg thinks she’s speaking for.
One would think that, being part of the ABC News division, she would be familiar with her network’s own reporting on the issue. Back in March, ABC News cited a Pew Research Center poll which found broad support for voter ID laws. “An August 2025 Pew Research Center study found that 83% of the more than 3,500 people surveyed are in favor of requiring voters to show government-issued photo ID at the polls,” ABC reported.
So Goldberg went on a network that had already published the polling data proving her wrong and said the opposite anyway.
Behar wasn’t done. Behar added, “It’s called the SAVE America Act, which is ironic, because it’s not — it’s really saving his behind. Save the Donald Trump behind act.” Behar and Griffin also falsely insisted that the act “suppresses the vote” and may even prevent half of America from being allowed to vote.
That’s a remarkable thing to say about a bill that reflects the stated preference of roughly four out of five Americans. But accuracy has never been the point of these segments.
The bill already passed the House, and the only reason it hasn’t passed the U.S. Senate is that several GOP senators are using their refusal to vote as a political weapon against the president. So, plenty of people “want” it to be passed into law and sent to the president to sign. Goldberg’s claim that nobody wants it is simply untrue.
And this isn’t the first time Goldberg has embarrassed herself on this exact topic. Earlier this year, she told her co-hosts she already shows her driver’s license when she votes in New York. Co-host Sunny Hostin said, “You don’t have to do that in New York.” Co-host Sara Haines added, “I didn’t have to do it.” Goldberg was wrong about the very law she was trying to argue against, got corrected in real time by her own colleagues, and kept talking anyway.
There’s something almost impressive about that level of commitment to being wrong.
Amid ABC’s battle with the Federal Communications Commission over The View‘s purported status as a “bona fide news program,” the show’s moderator, Whoopi Goldberg, erroneously claimed that “nobody wants” voter ID laws. Her latest lie came as Goldberg once again instructed viewers how they should vote in upcoming primaries and general elections.
Think about that. A show currently under FCC scrutiny for whether it qualifies as news is simultaneously being used as a platform to tell viewers which candidates to support and to spread false information about one of the most popular policy positions in the country.
The SAVE America Act is exactly what election integrity looks like in practice. American elections should be decided by American citizens. Showing an ID to vote isn’t a barrier — it’s a basic standard that most of the developed world already applies. The only people who treat it as controversial are the ones who benefit from keeping the system as loose and unverifiable as possible.