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Why Your Down-Ballot Votes Matter

Your vote for President is just one part of a much bigger system that either keeps good government policy moving forward toward prosperity, or allows it to roll over & crush you. Being an informed voter in all races is vital for our country, & here’s why:

The men who drafted our Constitution during a hot Philadelphia summer in 1787 spent more time debating the power of the federal Congress than any other topic. Not only was the Congress given authority to initiate legislation and approve the federal budget, it was also given oversight responsibilities for the other two branches (Executive and Judicial).


A President can sign a treaty but it does not go into effect unless the Senate approves it—reference the Treaty of Versailles after World War I or the NATO Treaty. A President can nominate someone to be a federal judge but the Senate has to approve that person—remember the success President Trump had with Supreme Court nominations, when a Republican senate majority approved Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett. In addition, Congress was given the power to override a Presidential veto.


The current Republican House of Representatives has effectively blocked much Progressive legislation that the Biden/Harris administration wanted passed which accounts, in part, for the administration turning to Executive Orders, such as student loan forgiveness, to bypass Congress. Luckily the Supreme Court, which now has a Conservative majority, has blocked much of the Biden/Harris overreach.


All Kenosha County Republicans want Donald Trump to return to the White House. Our country will be safer and the power of the administrative state will be reduced if he serves a second term.


But… a vote for Trump is not enough. We must also vote down-ballot for our Republican candidates for the U.S. House (Bryan Steil) and U.S. Senate (Eric Hovde)—in the first case to maintain a Republican majority in the House and in the second case to flip the Senate back to the Republicans.


Brian Gonzales, Candidate for State Assembly; Congressman Bryan Steil; Eric Hovde, Candidate for US Senate; Representative Amanda Nedweski; & Sandy Wiedmeyer, RPKC Chair

History teaches us a President who is from the same party as both the House and Senate will be highly successful in achieving policy goals. Remember the successes Biden/Harris had during the first two years of that administration when Democrats controlled the federal legislature? If Trump returns to the White House but the Democrats control either side of the federal legislature they will oppose everything he proposes.


A healthy and beneficial national tax cut was passed during Trump’s Presidency, but that tax cut is set to expire in 2025 unless Congress renews it. What is the probability that a Democratic House or Senate will vote to sustain lower taxes?

Imagine a pyramid. Most people picture our federal government in this fashion with the President at the very top directing all that is below. I suggest a better image is the hub-and-spoke (think of a huge wheel on a Conestoga wagon). The hub, the center, is the President. But the wheel cannot roll if one or more of the spokes is damaged, i.e. the Senate is controlled by the opposite party. The President, at the hub, can speak loudly but without reliable spokes in the wheel those words are pointless.

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