President Donald Trump is waging a relentless campaign to require national voter ID that has the MAGA base primed to blame Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) if Republicans lose the midterm elections in November.

Thune has taken weeks of slings and arrows from the Right over his reluctance to weaken the Senate filibuster, a 60-vote threshold that is keeping the SAVE America Act from becoming law. It began as a social media outrage, then gained traction with pundits claiming Republicans were headed toward an electoral wipeout if the Senate did not act.