55 Million Views And A Reality Check: Nicki Minaj Was Right About Voter ID

Over the weekend, famed rapper Nicki Minaj posted a message on X that went astonishingly viral, with 55 million views, in which she decried the efforts of leftists to quash the idea of voter ID, which would require voters to show a photo identification to vote.

“What sensible forward thinking cutting edge leading nation is having a DEBATE on whether or not there should be VOTER ID?!?!!!! Like?!?!? They’re actually fighting NOT to have ppl present ID while voting for your leaders!!!!! Do you get it?!?!!!! Do you get it now?!?!!!” she asked.

What sensible forward thinking cutting edge leading nation is having a DEBATE on whether or not there should be VOTER ID?!?!!!! Like?!?!? They’re actually fighting NOT to have ppl present ID while voting for your leaders!!!!! Do you get it?!?!!!! Do you get it now?!?!!!

— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) February 2, 2026

As a CNN poll revealed on Tuesday, the vast majority of Americans agree with her.

“The American people are with Nicki Minaj,” CNN pollster Harry Enten declared. “I got all this polling on the screen going back since 2018. You’ll notice on all of it, it’s all north of 75 percent, 76 percent, 76 percent, 76 percent, 81 percent, and then 83 percent in the last year of Americans. Agree with Nicki Minaj, they favor photo ID to be able to vote.”

“What about by party? What’s the party breakdown?” CNN anchor John Berman asked.

“Normally you might expect, hey, there’d be a big divide by party with Republicans really for it and Democrats really against it,” Enten replied. “But not really here. I mean just take a look here, favor photo ID to vote. You got 95 percent of Republicans, pretty much all of them, but even 71 percent of Democrats favor photo ID to vote. So again, Nicki Minaj posting that on X. And what you see is, is that the American people — actually it’s not really all that controversial. The American people are with Nicki Minaj, whether they are Republican or even if they are Democrats. We’re talking about seven in ten Democrats agreeing with Nicki Minaj that you, in fact, should show a voter photo ID to vote.”

“I think a lot of people make the argument that people of color, nonwhite Americans, have a harder time procuring a photo I.D. to vote,” Enten continued. “But even here, take a look here, favor photo ID to vote. Eighty-five percent of white people favor it. Eighty-two percent of Latinos. Seventy-six percent of black Americans favor it.”

“So, the bottom line is this: voter I.D. is not controversial in this country,” Enten asserted. “A photo ID to vote is not controversial in this country. It is not controversial by party, and it is not controversial by race. The vast majority of Americans agree with Nicki Minaj that, in fact, you should have a photo ID to be able to vote.”

???? CNN polling analyst Harry Enten: "The vast majority of Americans agree with Nicki Minaj that, in fact, you should have a photo ID to be able to vote.""

The CNN poll found the following support in for requiring a photo ID to vote:

85% of Whites
82% of Latinos
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— Ryan Saavedra (@RyanSaavedra) February 4, 2026

Asked recently what spurred her entry into politics, Minaj answered, “The last thing that really did it was me seeing certain things this recent presidential campaign and knowing that I could help. … Sometimes people can push you so much that they push you all the way into your next calling.”

.@NICKIMINAJ explains her political awakening on the @katiemillerpod: "The last thing that really did it was me seeing certain things this recent presidential campaign…and knowing that I could help."

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— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 2, 2026

Democrats who have opposed voter ID have included former President Joe Biden, who referred compared Georgia’s 2021 voting law to “Jim Crow in the 21st century,”: former Vice President Kamala Harris, who opposed strict ID requirements, referenced a case where a judge claimed such laws “targeted African-Americans with almost surgical precision,”: Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, who argued in 2016, “All of these voter suppression laws saying we’ve got to have voter ID laws because if we don’t they might vote twice. Are you kidding?” and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), who opposes the Make Elections Great Act, saying, “Voter suppression is part of the Republican plan to try desperately to hold on to power.”