Rep Nicole Malliotakis blasts Schumer, Mamdani 'hypocrisy' over voter ID
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., blasted Sen. Chuck Schumer, D- N.Y., and New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani for what she said was their hypocrisy over voter identification and urged Congress to pass the SAVE Act.
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., slammed what she deemed "hypocrisy" shown by Democratic socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., arguing that the two officials are betraying their constituents by refusing to support voter identification measures.
"I think the Democrats are showing the two sides that they have," she told Fox News Digital in an interview.
"They go to their district, they tell their constituents that they support voter ID, and then they turn around to go to Washington and vote against it," she continued.
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Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., in New York City on May 13, 2024. Malliotakis on Aug. 12, 2026, blasted her city and state's Democrats for allegedly obstructing voter identification protections in the SAVE America Act. (Seth Wenig-Pool/Getty Images)
Malliotakis called on the Senate to pass President Donald Trump’s Safeguard America’s Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, a piece of legislation that would require voters to prove American citizenship before casting a ballot.
"If you want people to be confident in the outcome of the election, then we need to pass the Save America Act. We need to require voter ID," Malliotakis told Fox News Digital.
"Over 80% of America wants it," Malliotakis continued, adding "the only people that don't seem to want it are the Democrats who are in Congress right now and they're not representing the people of their districts who are overwhelmingly saying they want it. Regardless of political affiliation, regardless of race, they are saying that they want a voter ID and the Senate Democrats should vote for it," she continued.
"Let's make sure that we show America that we're taking the integrity of our elections seriously. And voter ID is really the most common-sense step that we should be taking as a body," she added.
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Malliotakis pinned the blame in particular on Schumer for blocking the SAVE Act.
"We've passed it out of the House now four times and is up to the Senate to get the job done. These Senators keep going to their district saying that they support the SAVE America act, or at least they're telling their constituents that they support voter ID, and then they go to Washington and they vote against it, and so citizens need to hold those senators accountable," she told Fox News Digital.
"Unfortunately that dissent is being led by my own senator, Senator Chuck Schumer. Who always seems to be at odds with his constituents and America these days," she said.
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Malliotakis, New York City’s lone Republican in Congress, also laid into Mamdani, highlighting what she called his hypocrisy in requiring identification for city programs.
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"Sadly, you see the hypocrisy when you see programs like Mayor Mamdani wanting to require photo ID to utilize a government-run supermarket or when he wanted you to use a photo ID, not just one, but multiple IDs for a snow shoveling program," she told Fox News Digital.
"This is the hypocrisy we're seeing where things like that for everyday activities, they want ID, but when it comes to voting, the most important thing you do as a United States citizen is vote in your elections and elect your representatives, they don't want any type of accountability, any type a transparency or any type of requirement for voter identification to prove who you are, that you're eligible to vote, that you actually reside in the district in which you're voting and that you are an American citizen," she said.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani holds up bananas labeled with a 30% off sticker during an announcement on municipal grocery stores at a Campaign for Hunger community food distribution center in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Monday, July 27, 2026. (Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Malliotakis also pointed to a recent event in her Staten Island district where Mamdani was booed off the stage.
"This was an event for National Night Out Against Crime. It was in support of our law enforcement and the NYPD. Mamdani, in his career as a state assembly member, led the fight for the defund the police movement. And my constituents have not forgotten that. So number one, they were calling him out on his hypocrisy. But number two, they are making very clear they do not support his communist agenda and my borough of Staten Island is the only borough in the five boroughs of New York City that did not vote for Zohran Mamdani," she concluded.
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Fox News Digital contacted the offices of Mamdani and Schumer for further comment.
