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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) joined Fox Business this morning to speak with Maria Bartiromo on “Mornings with Maria” about the Senate voting against advancing Democrats’ legislation which would overhaul the elections process in the United States. The senator also reacted to comments made by President Biden following his recent meetingwith Russian President Vladimir Putin. Excerpts and a link to the full video are below.

On S. 1, the For the People Act:

“The power grab Democrats are trying to take with S.1 was really quite extraordinary. What’s interesting to me is, politically speaking, they are swimming upstream. Voter ID laws, as you pointed out, are very popular. People of every political stripe, every geography, want and believe there ought to be integrity in that. I know nobody who thinks taxpayers ought to fund elections. The notion that I ought to be forced to fund my opponent's campaign is ludicrous on its face. Things like ballot harvesting, that is like mandating shoplifting for crying out loud … A lot of things in this bill are very unpopular, and you see Democrats doubling down it. This really is an illustration to the divide in their own conference, and that is that they have this very extreme left that they have to hang onto to maintain power, but I think it makes a lot of Democrats uncomfortable.”

On the Timing of S. 1:

“This same bill was introduced in 2019. This basic language that Democrats have been pushing, they have been pushing for a couple of decades. The thing that changes isn't their legislation or the policies they are trying to push. It’s really the narrative that surrounds it. The latest narrative is 2020 should be repeated whereas before it was 2016 should never happen again. You can't have it both ways.”

On President Biden’s List to Putin:

“Every now and then you see something bizarre like handing a list of targets to not attack, which that implies other targets are free to be attacked. It would be like saying, ‘whatever you do, don't send a nuclear missile at the United States Capitol or the White House or New York City, but other than that, feel free.’ I have to believe there's more to it than that and I hope there’s a more clever strategy than all of that. Obviously there's a vulnerability that we feel, and understandably so. But … I give him benefit of the doubt that he knows something we don't know or that he has a larger strategy in all of this that hopefully make sense.”

On Deterring Foreign Adversaries:

“I think people should have confidence in knowing we are pretty good at it ourselves. The best way – whether it’s cyber, nuclear, conventional weapons, whatever the case may be – the best deterrent in the world is to be very good at the offensive side of it, and you have to be believable.”

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