Bret Baier and Ben Domenech Could Not Believe the Numbers On Democrats’ Favorite Election Lie

Bret Baier looked at his own network's brand new poll and could not hide his reaction on air.

The numbers came straight from Democratic voters, not from Trump or any Republican pollster.

What those Democratic voters said back should terrify every lawmaker still repeating that suppression lie.

Democrats' Own Voters Just Exposed Their Party on Voter ID

Baier called the results "pretty overwhelming" on Thursday's Special Report.

He turned to conservative panelist Ben Domenech and asked if Republicans should be running harder on voter ID.

Domenech did not hesitate.

He agreed the timing was perfect for Republicans and said they are leaving an easy win on the table.

He compared showing ID to vote to showing ID to buy a bottle of liquor.

Then he said the part most Republicans won't say out loud.

Republicans are handed an 80/20 issue and refuse to run on it.

Here is the poll that had them both stunned.

A fresh national survey shows roughly eight in ten voters want citizenship proof before someone can register, and about the same share wants ID shown at the ballot box.

Republican support for the idea is nearly unanimous.

Now the number Democrats do not want you to see.

Nearly three in four Democratic voters back the registration requirement, and a solid majority back showing ID to actually vote.

Hispanic voters and voters under 30, the exact demographics Democrats claim this law targets, back it by similarly lopsided margins.

Every group Democrats say this law hurts just told pollsters they want it.

This Is Not a New Number Democrats Just Discovered

Fox News has tracked voter ID support since 2011, and the topline number has barely budged in fifteen years.

Democratic backing has stayed well above half that entire time, even as party leaders kept insisting the opposite.

The Supreme Court settled the legal question back in 2008.

Justice John Paul Stevens wrote the majority opinion upholding Indiana's voter ID law in a lopsided 6 to 3 ruling.

Democrats did not lose an argument about suppression.

They never had one.

Senate Democrats Keep Blocking a Law Their Own Voters Want

None of this happened by accident.

The House already sent the SAVE America Act to the Senate back in February on a narrow 218 to 213 vote.

The bill would force proof of citizenship before registering and require photo ID at the polls.

Senate Democrats have refused to hand Republicans a single vote to advance it.

Republicans came up short again on their last cloture push, falling well shy of the 60-vote threshold needed to break a filibuster.

Kansas Republican Roger Marshall said Thursday his party is still ten Democratic votes away from breaking the impasse.

He wants Majority Leader John Thune to schedule standalone votes on voter ID, citizenship proof, and mail ballot restrictions, forcing Democrats to go on record before November.

Follow the money and the lie makes more sense.

Democratic election attorney Marc Elias runs a legal operation that sues to block voter ID laws almost the moment governors sign them.

His firm's partner, Abha Khanna, called voter suppression "alive and well" after Ohio passed its own ID law, even as Democratic voters nationwide were telling pollsters otherwise.

That operation does not survive a poll showing most Democrats support the very law it exists to fight.

Senate Democrats are not protecting their own voters on this issue.

They are protecting a legal and fundraising industry built on a claim their own base rejects.

Robert Traynham, a Republican strategist, flagged one real risk buried in the same poll.

Nearly two-thirds of voters back universal mail-in voting, and seven in ten think late-arriving ballots postmarked by Election Day should still count.

Fighting those provisions hands Democrats a talking point Republicans do not need.

Voter ID is the fight worth having.

The numbers are lopsided, the legal question is settled, and Democrats are stuck defending a position their own voters abandoned years ago.

Every Senate Democrat who votes no this fall is voting against most of their own party's voters.

That is a number Republicans should be repeating on every debate stage between now and November, not something they whisper about in committee hearings.

Sources:

• Ben Smith, "Democrats' Voter Suppression Lie Implodes As Their Own Voters Back ID Requirements," RedState, July 24, 2026.
• Fox News Staff, "Fox News Poll: Significant support for both voter ID laws and mail-in ballots," Fox News, July 23, 2026.
• Heritage Foundation Staff, "Voter ID Laws Are Popular for Good Reasons," The Heritage Foundation, January 17, 2023.