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Democrats desperately want to crush the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act. The SAVE Act would limit federal elections solely to U.S. citizens and require new applicants to prove their U.S. citizenship before registering to vote. The Left will have none of this. When the U.S. House passed this measure on July 10, all 216 Republicans voted Yea. While five Democrats agreed, 198 Dems opposed the idea of American-citizen-only federal elections. This measure has languished in the Senate ever since. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D–N.Y.) treats it as warmly as week-old sushi. A McLaughlin & Associates poll for Tea Party Patriots Action (Reprinted with permission from TPPA and McLaughlin & Associates) The American people overwhelmingly align with Republicans on this issue. McLaughlin & Associates surveyed 1,000 general-election voters for Tea Party Patriots Action. The Feb. 16 poll found that 87 percent believe “proof of United States citizenship should be required to vote in American elections.” This includes 96 percent of Republicans, 89 percent of independents, and 76 percent of Democrats! (READ MORE: ‘The Democratic Party Left Me’: A Fireside Chat With Robert F. Kennedy Jr.) The Left moans that the SAVE Act is a solution seeking a problem. In an e-mail blasted Sept. 18 to the soft-on-vote-fraud crowd, Chris Crawford of the National Task Force on Election Crises claimed that foreign-citizen voting in federal races “is virtually non-existent and has never been common enough to determine the outcome of elections.” Virtually non-existent? Foreigners Are Voting. It’s Hardly a Non-Existent Problem. Texas has removed at least 6,655 foreigners from its voter rolls since 2021. Among them, 1,930 had voted in federal elections. Under Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin, Virginia has unregistered 6,000-plus foreign citizens. Secretary of State Frank LaRose has pinpointed 597 foreigners on Ohio’s voter rolls this year. Of these, 138 had cast ballots. “So what?” the loose-ballot lobby snaps. “Just 138 foreigners voting here; 1,930 casting ballots there. Who cares?” Every American should care. Elections have been decided by fewer votes than these. The 2000 presidential race ended with a 537-vote victory by George W. Bush in Florida. The Sunshine State boosted Bush from 246 Electoral College votes to 271, one more than he needed to defeat Democrat Al Gore. In 1998, U.S. Sen. Harry Reid (D–Nev.) won his third six-year term by 428 votes among 435,790 ballots cast. Reid eventually became Senate majority leader and a ferocious one at that. Minnesota Democrat Al Franken seized Norm Coleman’s GOP U.S. Senate seat by 312 votes (largely thanks to felons without voting rights). Franken’s 2008 victory gave Democrats the 60-seat filibuster-proof majority required to approve ObamaCare. In 2020, Republican Claudia Tenney beat Democrat Anthony Brindisi in New York’s 22nd Congressional District by 109 of 319,638 votes. That year, Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks buried Democrat Rita Hart beneath a six-vote landslide among 394,625 total ballots in Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District. This situation also exists at the state level.  In 2022, Democratic-Farmer-Labor candidate Judy Seeberger outran her GOP rival by just 321 votes in Minnesota’s State Senate District 41. This gave Democrats a 34-33 majority and, thus, control of the State Senate, State House of Representatives, and the governor’s mansion for the first time since 2014. Now fully controlling St. Paul, after a decade of divided government, Democrats got busy. The legislature passed and sent to Gov. (and possibly Vice President) Tim Walz a host of far-Left dreams come true: gun control, mandatory carbon-free electricity by 2040, automatic voter registration, pre-registration to vote from age 16, and permanent-absentee-voter status, the latter will keep unsupervised mail-in ballots flying around forever. (READ MORE: Why We Shouldn’t Expect a Return to the Trump Economy) Also enacted and signed: Abortion rights up to and beyond delivery. This included Walz’s repeal of the requirement to report on children who survive botched abortions, are born alive, and then left to die. So far, such infanticide has killed at least eight babies on Walz’s watch. The 2017 showdown in Virginia’s Commonwealth House District 94 between Republican David Yancey and Democrat Shelly Simonds boiled down to 11,608 votes each — a tie. Eventually, officials hand-picked from inside a bowl a piece of paper that said “Yancey.” His triumph gave Republicans control of the House, denied Democrats complete dominance in Richmond, and prevented Democrat Gov. Ralph Northam from embarking on a Tampon Tim-style, far-left tear. Public Interest Legal Foundation’s photo-finish database cites 635 primary races, general elections, and referenda that resulted in ties, since 1992. PILF lists 29 in both 2023 and thus far in 2024. Even the liberal Center for American Progress recognizes how close elections can get. According to its Sept. 16 report titled The Power of One Vote, “in November 2021, 18 local elections in Ohio — 12 candidate races and six local measures — ended in a tie. A coin flip or similar method determined the winner of these tied candidate races.” This parade of evidence refutes Chris Crawford’s aforementioned assertion that foreign-citizen voting is not “common enough to determine the outcome of elections.” This test is irrelevant. Foreigners have no voting rights in federal and state elections. Outrageously, Washington, D.C.; San Francisco, and several cities in Maryland and Vermont let foreigners vote in local elections. New York City passed similar legislation. It was overturned in state court and still is being litigated in federal court by PILF and four plaintiffs, including your humble polemicist. (READ MORE: Kamala Harris’ Bait and Switch on Positions and Values) As this abundant proof makes excruciatingly clear, a handful of foreign citizens’ bogus ballots can throw an election. Just one such illegal ballot could have changed history in Minnesota, Virginia, Ohio, and beyond. Thus, the right number of ballots cast by foreign citizens in any U.S. election is zero. The correct number of foreign citizens registered to vote in America is zero. The proper amount of tolerance for foreign-citizen voting is zero. Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor. The post Save the SAVE Act: A Necessary Solution to a Real Problem appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

If you have had even the slightest exposure to baseball news this month, then you undoubtedly have heard about the otherworldly exploits of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ designated hitter, Shohei Ohtani. If he wasn’t the biggest star in Major League Baseball before now (the New York Yankees’ slugger Aaron Judge might have gotten some votes) Ohtani now commands center stage. Already a legend by virtue of being the only MLB player in history — besides the immortal Babe Ruth — to be both a dominant pitcher and a feared slugger, Ohtani has rewritten the record books for hitters this season. Last week, he became the first major leaguer ever to hit at least 50 home runs and to steal at least 50 bases in the same season. Sluggers are not known for their base-running excellence, and base-stealers are not known for their slugging prowess, but Ohtani is such a gifted athlete that he excels at both skills. How impressive an achievement is it to be the first member of the “50-50 club?” Before this season, only five players in history had joined the “40-40 club” — a minimum of 40 homeruns and 40 stolen bases in a season. A few weeks ago, Ohtani became only the sixth player ever to reach that milestone — and he did it with a flair worthy of a superstar. Ohtani cracked his 40th homer of the season as a walk-off grand slam (a bases-loaded homerun in the home team’s last at-bat, ending the game instantly). You can bet that everyone in attendance at that game will remember it for the rest of their life. (One other detail about joining the 40-40 club: Ohtani achieved that feat in 26 fewer games than the next-fastest member of the five previous members of that exclusive club.) As dramatic as Ohtani’s heroics were when he joined the 40-40 club, the game when he reached the 50-50 levels was even more memorable. Entering the game with 48 homeruns and 49 stolen bases, fans wondered if he would reach 50 in either of those statistics that night. In a display of offensive excellence that may never be exceeded, Ohtani went 6-for-6 with three homeruns, two doubles and a single, drove in ten runs, and also stole two bases, leaving him at 51-51 at the end of the game. (And the fact that the Dodgers’ victory in that game clinched a playoff spot underscores once again Ohtani’s flair for coming through in the clutch when his team needs him.) It was only the 16th time since RBIs (runs batted in) became an official statistic in 1920 that a major league ballplayer hit double digits in RBIs in a single game. None of the previous 15 players had a stolen base in their big game, but Ohtani stole two bases. Even though the Dodgers were the visiting team, playing in Miami, the crowd went wild cheering for Ohtani. How could they not? They were treated to an offensive exhibition the likes of which had never before been seen in MLB history. It is difficult to overstate Ohtani’s greatness and the international fame that goes with it. He is, of course, an icon and national hero in his native Japan. In fact, Japan’s chief cabinet secretary, Yoshimasa Hayashi, officially commended Ohtani’s achievement of becoming the inaugural member of the 50-50 club. Ohtani is even immensely popular in the baseball-loving country of South Korea, despite the tradition of hostilities between the two countries. And if you want to try to gauge his popularity in monetary terms, Ohtani will earn almost 10 times as much money this year in endorsements as the No. 2 Major League Baseball player. Ohtani’s annual endorsement income currently approximates $65 million — a level reached by only one other athlete, basketball’s LeBron James. Now that is popularity! In addition to reaching the exalted 50-50 level, Ohtani is leading the National League in both RBIs and runs scored. Just a couple of games after reaching 50-50, Ohtani both homered and stole a base in the same game for the 14th time this season — another feat that never had been accomplished before. It seems likely that Ohtani will win the Most Valuable Player award in this, his first season as a National Leaguer. He already has won the MVP award twice in the American League while playing for the Los Angeles Angels. In those years, he took turns pitching and playing as the Angels’ designated hitter in other games. This year, due to an elbow injury, he has not pitched, so he focused on going from great to super-great as an everyday player. Looking ahead, it seems certain that Ohtani will be inducted into the MLB Hall of Fame someday. Meanwhile, we will hear debates about whether he is the greatest player of all time. Indeed, only Babe Ruth shared Ohtani’s mastery at both pitching and hitting. Here are a couple of statistics to keep in mind: On the all-time career ERA (earned run average) list, Ruth ranks 17th (2.27) and Ohtani 33rd (3.01) And in the vital OPS batting statistic (on-base percentage plus slugging percentage), Ruth ranks first all time (1.1636) and Ohtani 33rd (.9421). Since one could make the argument that the level of competition is much higher today, I will remain neutral about who the greatest baseball player of all time is. If you are a true baseball fan, though, if there is one player you would want to go to the ballpark to watch today, it would be Shohei Ohtani, and if there is one player that you would fly back in time to watch, it would be Babe Ruth. They are the two greatest players in the history of baseball. The post Shohei Ohtani: Major League Baseball’s Supernova appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.