Trump's voter ID bill catches unlikely break as McConnell remains sidelined

An unlikely reason has chipped away, for now, at Senate Republican resistance against President Donald Trump’s flagship election priority.

The Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act has hit brick wall after brick wall in the Senate, and has only twice mustered 50 votes. Still, Trump wants Republicans to pass it by any means necessary.

Republicans, however, aren’t unified behind it. One lawmaker, Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has routinely voted against the bill in its variety of iterations...