Cracks in the solid wall of Republican lawmaker support for Trump’s plans to derail future elections are appearing more and more these days. Evidence of that is seen in a standoff now between the president and a split Senate Republican majority that could well may doom the so-called “SAVE Act,” the GOP’s monstrous voter repression bill.

That, of course, is good news to workers, the poor, people of color, and women, all of whom would have their voting rights severely restricted under the bill, officially called the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act.

The problem for Trump and the Republicans supporting the voter suppression is that they need 60 Senate votes to break a Democratic filibuster threat, and the Senate has only 53 Republicans. Further, not all of them agree on schemes to junk the filibuster and pass the bill.

The SAVE Act sharply curbs use of mail-in voting and drop boxes and sets earlier deadlines for ballots to get to elections offices. Furthermore, it requires voters to prove their citizenship by bringing expensive and sometimes unattainable papers, such as birth certificates, or passports.

The proposed measure would virtually repeal prior voting rights laws by establishing a Jim Crow-like regime where voters, especially voters of color, would have to go through multiple and expensive steps to prove they’re citizens with the right to vote.

There’s possibly a light at the end of the tunnel?

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., has told Trump “the votes aren’t there” to break a filibuster threat by at least 44 Democrats and both independents. The position of contrarian Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., is unknown.

“The votes aren’t there, one, to nuke the filibuster, and the votes aren’t there for a talking filibuster. It’s just a reality,” Thune told reporters on March 10.

“I’m the person who has to deliver sometimes the not-so-good news that the math doesn’t add up, but those are the facts and there’s no getting around it.”