Wisconsin Voter ID Win Buoys California GOP Activists

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : The move makes Wisconsin the latest state to formalize voter ID rules, and it's one of 36 states that have some form of voter identification requirement, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
55% : In early March, DeMaio formed "Californians for Voter ID" and released polling from Public Opinion Strategies showing strong support in California for new laws requiring identification to vote.
54% : "Even far lefties want voter ID," Ric Grenell, Trump's envoy for special missions who is weighing a run for California governor in 2026, declared in an X.com post.
54% : Some 63% of Wisconsin voters Tuesday approved the measure to enshrine the state's voter ID law in the state constitution.
52% : A Gallup poll last fall found that large majorities of Americans back photo ID laws, with some 84% of Americans saying they back having "all voters" provide "photo identification at their voting place in order to vote.
48% : " Grenell, who served as director of national intelligence during the first Trump administration, wasn't just touting California's voter ID campaign out of nowhere when suggesting that California would be the next state to back voter ID requirements.
48% : Republican Assemblyman Carl DeMaio, a former conservative talk show host who heads a different nonprofit, Reform California, is now focused on passing a bold 2026 ballot measure that would not only change the California constitution to require voter ID but also mandate citizenship verification to vote across the state.
47% : The win also is emboldening proponents of voter ID laws as far away as solidly blue California.
47% : Trump this week named Essayli, 39, as U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, an office employing more than 250 lawyers.
46% : Despite the majority support for voter ID laws in California and nationwide, DeMaio is well aware that getting a constitutional amendment passed is no easy feat.
44% : Proponents of voter ID laws argue they boost the public's trust in election outcomes and reduce voter fraud.
34% : "Next up...California!" Although the GOP candidate for state Supreme Court lost in the hotly contested Wisconsin election in which Elon Musk played a starring role, Republicans from Musk to President Trump to GOP state legislators around the country touted the voter ID victory.

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