The Republican majority in the U.S. Congress may be at risk in the 2026 midterm elections. This is hard to believe, given recent approval/disapproval polling on the Democrat Party.
Last month, reputable Quinnipiac pollsters reported congressional Democrats hit a record low job approval of 18 percent, with 73% disapproval — the worst since tracking began in 2009.
Still, the Republican majorities in the Senate and particularly the House are at risk in the upcoming midterm elections if the base of the Republican Party is not motivated to vote.
Historically, the president’s party generally loses seats in the midterms, particularly in the U.S. House.
If this happens, the reform agenda of the Trump administration would be constrained, if not derailed. President Donald Trump says he will campaign this year for Republican candidates, but more importantly he needs to do several things to get out the vote, protect his agenda, and even increase the Republican congressional majority.
Most importantly, Trump needs to deliver on three major unfinished initiatives: First, fix the integrity of our national elections by mandating voter IDs, one-day vote casting and counting, and employing paper ballots.
Second, make sure public officials and powerful private-sector figures who have committed felonies are visibly and successfully prosecuted in the next few months.
Third, use all legal tools and precedents to arrest and prosecute perpetrators of mass felony crimes and re-establish law and order in blue cities and states experiencing urban lawlessness and industrial-scale fraud.
Why Fixing the Integrity of U.S. Elections is Imperative
The fundamental reason why election integrity is of paramount importance is that the whole basis of the United States is the sovereignty of the people.
It's the DNA of America.
The legitimacy and moral authority of the country come only from the people, who express their preferences for their local, state, and national government officials through free and fair elections.
When voting irregularities emerge, the moral authority of government is compromised, causing the people to disrespect and distrust their own government.
The moral authority of United States is also critical in maintaining regional and world order and peace.
There are times when the most crucial factor in prevailing against corrupt regimes and dictatorial foreign governments is the moral authority of the United States.
When the U.S. loses its moral authority, as it did during the Biden administration, its deterrent power is compromised and foreign adversaries are emboldened.
Prosecuting Felonious Crimes Committed by Public Officials Is Imperative
One function of our law enforcement and justice system is to punish lawbreakers. However, the more important function of law enforcement is the deterrence of other lawbreakers and the prevention of escalating crime.
What has most greased the skids of America's decline toward the ways of banana republics is the emergence and acceptance of two-tiered justice and attendant cronyism and political corruption.
The legacy of the Clintons, and particularly former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, illustrates the two-tiered justice system in America and how political crime grows when laws go unenforced. Hillary Clinton seemingly sought impede or obstruct the investigation of a matter about which she was subpoenaed and under investigation by the U.S. Congress.
An argument may be made that Hillary's purported malfeasance serious enough to be in violation of 18 U.S. Code 1519.
Then FBI Director James B. Comey let Mrs. Clinton off with no sanction or penalty.
In the last year of Barack Obama's first presidential term, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton failed to respond to the militant insurrection at the U.S. embassy's diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, which resulted in the death of four Americans, including then-U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
In fact, Clinton succeeded in deflecting accountability, failure, and penalty by sending then-Obama National Security
Adviser Susan Rice to promote and repeat a story of causality for the Benghazi humiliation and tragedy on all the major TV network Sunday talk shows.
When Trump succeeded in the 2016 upset presidential election against favored candidate Hillary Clinton, a cabal to undermine President-Elect Trump was organized by Obama.
It could be argued that this unthinkably bold seditious act was undertaken because of a lack of accountability for prior wrong-doing and the two-tiered justice system, then extant, which had become the norm.
Why Restoring Law and Order in American Cities Is Imperative
The modern sanctuary city movement to provide safe-haven to illegal immigrants began in the 1980s during the surge of Central American refugees into the U.S.
According to radical left training manuals from the Conference on Alternative State and Local Policies in the late 1970s and 1980s, there was an agenda to radicalize city and state government to transform America. The radicalization of targeted "blue" cities and states dovetailed with the sanctuary city movement.
And today there are about 20 large cities and 13 states that have adopted sanctuary status with policies, laws, and regulations that impede enforcement of federal law and federal immigration laws in particular.
In addition to huge sums of money funding radical political change at the state and city levels, over the last few decades radicalized state and city government leaders have increasingly embraced defunding the police and have been corrupted through public funding kickbacks.
They have also become progressively militant in using their authority to violate, obstruct, and defy the enforcement of federal immigration laws.
The pent-up frustration with unaccountability for election irregularity in many states, seditious high crimes by the political class against the American people, and the radicalization and breakdown of law and order in a growing number of cities demoralizes American citizens.
President Trump needs to make sure these three areas are dealt with promptly and decisively.
Failure to deliver in visible ways on these three problem areas would surely demoralize the Republican base depressing voter turnout and put Republican congressional majorities at risk.
A Democratic majority in the U.S. House would not only derail the Trump agenda but would lead to impeachment 3.0 and conditions which would threaten the integrity and continuity of the United States.
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Scott Powell is senior fellow at Discovery Institute. Reach him at scottp@discovery.org. Read more Scott Powell Insider articles — Click Here Now.
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