President Donald Trump & Speaker Johnson Appear For Joint Press Conference To Announce Election Integrity Bill: ‘Common Sense’

On Friday, former President and Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson appeared for the joint press conference at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. The topics of their joint press conference were election interference and election integrity, and they wanted to promote an election integrity bill. But before introducing Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and talking about election integrity, Donald Trump demanded that President Joe Biden should close the borders of the country immediately. 

Trump said, “We probably have fifteen million people, and they come from places you don’t want to know about, and they’re going to be big problems, and it’s getting worse. It’s migrant crime. It’s a new category of crime, migrant crime. And, I’m just demanding, I just demand, as a citizen, I demand, the border has to be closed. Our country cannot take it; no country can take it. It’s not sustainable by any country.”

After this, Donald Trump introduced Mike Johnson. Johnson started by stating that he has been to 23 states within the last couple of weeks. He explained that when the House of Representative is not in the session, the Speaker of the House is “required to go around, fly around the country and be with all of our candidates and incumbents.”

Mike Johnson further added, “Everywhere we go, one of the first questions people ask about is this issue of election integrity. The border is the number one issue in America. There’s never been a political issue that scored so high in the polls as a matter of concern. And it doesn’t matter where anyone lives because, as we say now, every state is a border state. And election integrity is tied to the border, the lack of border security.”

According to a press release from the House Committee on Homeland Security, in February 2024, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) encountered nine million border crossings at the U.S.-Mexico southern border, and more than 1.8 million got away.

In 2023, data from the Census Bureau showed that there were almost 17 million illegal immigrants living in the United States.

“You need to understand something significant about federal law. Since 1993, the National Voter Registration Act, which we call the motor voter law, has allowed people to sign up to vote when they get a driver’s license,” Johnson explained. “If an individual only does a search or simply states that they are a citizen, they don’t have to prove it. They can register that person to vote in a federal election, and you see, states are currently prohibited, believe it or not, the states are prohibited from asking someone to prove that they are a citizen.”

Johnson added that they believe this is a “serious problem.”

  “What we’re going to do is, the House Republicans are introducing a bill that will require proof of citizenship to vote,” Johnson added. “It seems like common sense; I’m sure all of us would agree. We only want U.S. citizens to vote in U.S. elections. But there are some Democrats who don’t want to do that. We believe that one of their designs, one of the reasons for this open border, which everybody asks all around the country, ‘Why would they do this? Why would they allow all of this chaos? Why the violence?’ Because they want to turn these people into voters.”

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson showed his full confidence and support for the Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump. Johnson assured the audience that Trump would do everything in his power to eliminate the border crisis in this country. Jonson further added:

“If we don’t have that in a Constitutional Republic, we have nothing. It’s the basis of who we are as a nation. And we owe that to the American people. So, what we’re going to do is introduce legislation to require that every single person who registers to vote in a federal election must prove that they are an American citizen first.”