Jocelyn Benson

On Friday, several state officials said the ruling would not change their approach.

Ashley Hunt Esquivel, a spokeswoman for Paul Pate, the Iowa Secretary of State, said that Iowa was already using SAVE and would not be affected.

This ruling does not impact our processes in Iowa because of our participation in a previous lawsuit alongside a few other states, she wrote in an email.

In Minnesota, Steve Simon, the Secretary of State, said in a statement that the ruling would have no effect on the state's elections, in part because the use of the program is not permitted under state law.

Minnesotans should rest easy knowing that their right to vote won't be impeded by this faulty project, he said.

Angela Benender, a spokesman for Michigan's Secretary of State, Jocelyn Benson, said that Michigan had already been using SAVE in a limited capacity and that it would continue to do so.

We wouldn't cancel a voter's registration on its own because the SAVE system indicates that they have non-citizen status, she said.

It's a clue, but it's not the end of the investigation.

Believe me, I've been fighting.

You know, Jocelyn Benson's lost, uh, what? Eight, nine lawsuits over the last, uh, eight years.

I mean, she's been a disaster as Secretary of State.

But fortunately, we have our lawyers at the Republican National Committee and the, and the state party, and we saw that we were effective two years ago, and we're gonna be effective again.

Believe me, I've been fighting.

You know, Jocelyn Benson's lost, uh, what? Eight, nine lawsuits over the last, uh, eight years.

I mean, she's been a disaster as secretary of state.

But fortunately, we have our lawyers at the Republican National Committee and the, and the state party, and we saw that we were effective two years ago, and we're gonna be effective again.

You know, there's as a lot of polls have El Saeed ahead by a lot or eight points here and five points there.

And then Jocelyn Benson's ahead in the polls.

What's what's your read on all?

I would say that Johnson-Benson was a bit more accurate because Republicans have almost stopped funding John James.

Yeah, have a great, great weekend.

Yeah, the, this poll also says that Jocelyn Benson is at 54% and John James is at 45%, and that's a lot different than, uh, 50 to 49.

Uh, it shows that, uh, the people that were talked to in this particular poll aren't necessarily 100% Republican, 100% Democratic.

There seems to be some crossover on the actual candidates.

So whether, um, that's Ab- Abdul El-Sayed or Mike Rogers, whether people feel favorably for them or not, or Jocelyn Benson or John James, it seems like to some degree it's not just straight up, uh, "I'm voting Republican," or straight up, "I'm voting Democrat." It looks like people are looking at the in- the, the, the candidates themselves before making their decisions.

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Yeah.

And Jocelyn Benson supports a federal relief, which is not going to happen for all kinds of complicated reasons, uh, but opposes suspending the state tax.

As he- she's up in the polls, he's down in the polls.

This could give him, uh, a, an issue to, to go after down the home stretch that people really relate to.

I don't think it is.

Um, I think Jocelyn Benson probably wins this pretty handily.

I'm gonna say Benson plus eight, uh, in this race, which will be interesting to see what the overlap is with the Senate race that is expected to be much closer.

But I think Democrats get the, get the governorship here, and I don't think it's, it's all that close.