JD Vance Slams Senators For Defending ‘Dying Institutional Norms’ Over SAVE America Act

Vice President JD Vance joined Fox News Anchor Laura Ingraham on “The Ingraham Angle” Tuesday night to single out Republican senators who are protecting the “dying institutional norms” that are preventing the SAVE America Act from being enacted into law.

The voter integrity legislation that has been championed by President Donald Trump is currently stalled in the U.S. Senate, despite passing the U.S. House of Representatives three times, because the Senate refuses to remove the 60-vote threshold rule put in place in order to pass legislation.

On the show, the former senator condemned his former Republican colleagues.

“The problem that they have with all due respect is that they’re worshipping dying institutional norms,” Vance said, adding that “when the Democrats are in fact bragging that as soon as they get control, they’re going to throw that stuff aside and make it harder for Republicans to even win elections.”

Vance then called out Republicans by name, including former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, for opposing the removal of the 60-vote threshold rule.

“What some of these Republicans are saying is that they don’t want to give up on the norm of the filibuster, the sacred Senate institutional norm that a few senators are obsessed with including, of course, Mitch McConnell,” Vance said.

“The problem, Laura, is that Democrats are saying the minute that they get power the filibuster is going out the door, so unilaterally were submitting and surrendering as Republicans,” he continued, arguing that Democrats are “openly bragging” that they will eliminate the filibuster if they regain the Senate majority.

“It’s just handing your enemy a weapon that they’re going to use to strike you down,” Vance stated.

Vance concluded his statements on the Senate filibuster rule by calling the Republican effort to avoid abolishing the filibuster “absurd,” hinting that some of these senators should be primaried by Republican voters.

“It’s absurd, it doesn’t make any sense, but that’s why, frankly, we have to get better senators there in the future,” Vance concluded.

Recently, senators that have opposed the legislative goals of the president, such as Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., have lost their Republican primaries in 2026 after the president endorsed their opponents.