Hillary Clinton thinks it’s obvious why President Donald Trump and the Republican Party are so eager to make it harder for Americans to vote.

In an interview with Democracy Docket released on Wednesday, the former presidential candidate applauded the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold a Mississippi law granting a grace period for late arriving mail-in ballots, and told host Marc Elias that the GOP knows curbing ballot access is “the only way they can win.”

“They can’t win a fair fight, which is why Trump is so obsessed with stealing voter rolls and purging voters and making up ridiculous claims about people not eligible as citizens for voting,” she said, calling his claims about rampant election fraud “so vanishingly non-existent, it’s laughable.”

Clinton continued, “But that’s his game because he can’t win a fair fight, and his Republican Party, which has become a cult answering only to him, can’t win a fair fight.”

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While the Trump administration’s attack on mail-in voting was snuffed out by the Supreme Court, the president and his party are still working on other ways to upend the election process.

In early 2025, Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy introduced a bill for the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, also known as the SAVE Act.

The highly contentious legislation would require people to provide in-person proof of citizenship to register to vote, largely eliminating online and mail-in registration, in addition to imposing photo ID requirements at the polls.

Though the SAVE Act got House approval, it stalled out in the Senate, forcing Trump to get creative about how to pressure lawmakers into voting for his pet project.

Late last month, he announced he was refusing to sign a bipartisan-backed housing affordability bill until the SAVE Act got passed.

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