President Donald Trump admitted on Tuesday that Democrats will take over Congress and the presidency unless Senate Republicans help him pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (the SAVE America Act), which would effectively disenranchise millions of American voters, including trans Americans and some same-sex married couples.

“The Democrats are far more likely to win the Midterms, and the next Presidential Election, if we don’t do the Termination of the Filibuster (The Nuclear Option!), because it will be impossible for Republicans to get Common Sense Policies done with these Crazed Democrat Lunatics being able to block everything by withholding their votes,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social, according to Politico.

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“FOR THREE YEARS, NOTHING WILL BE PASSED, AND REPUBLICANS WILL BE BLAMED. Elections, including the Midterms, will be rightfully brutal,” he continued. “If we do terminate the Filibuster, we will get EVERYTHING approved, like no Congress in History.”

While Trump’s social media posts seemingly focus on the filibuster — the 60 vote threshhold needed to pass votes in the narrowly Republican-controlled Senate — he has pledged not to sign any other congressionally approved legislation until the SAVE Act is passed.

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune has said “the votes aren’t there” to pass the Save Act with the filibuster in place, and Senate Republicans aren’t yet totally on board with Trump’s plan to do away with the filibuster to get it passed with a simple majority vote.

Republicans have good reason to worry about the midterm and 2028 elections, considering that a majority of voters have negative views of both Republicans and Trump, and that Democrats have won an overwhelming majority of special elections since Trump began his second term.

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