President Donald Trump isn't dismissing the possibility that he could declare a national security emergency in an attempt to establish new voting restrictions stalled in the Senate, telling an interviewer that "stranger things have happened."
Trump has spent weeks hammering senators to pass the SAVE America Act, legislation that would greatly restrict mail-in voting and mandate proof of citizenship and a photo ID to cast a ballot.
The bill is Trump's top legislative priority, but it has struggled to attract enough support in the Senate, and lawmakers left for their August recess last week without passing it.
During a Real America's Voice interview with Trump on Aug. 10, host Wayne Allyn Root suggested bypassing the Senate and taking executive action to implement elements of the SAVE America Act, a move that almost certainly would be challenged in court.
"Let me put an idea in your head, OK?" Root said, adding: "You have the right to declare a national security emergency for elections … so if you do this in the next month we will get photo ID, proof of citizenship and a limit to mail-in ballots."

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