While massive media attention lights up this year’s presidential race, key races are taking place downballot. Two of the 11 governor’s races on 2024 ballots are currently rated toss-ups: North Carolina and New Hampshire. Eight of the 11 governor’s mansions up for grabs this year are currently Republican-controlled.
State-elected positions such as governor, state attorney general, senator, and House representative are crucial to checking federal abuses of power. A coalition of approximately half the nation’s attorneys general, for example, has been challenging Biden administration power grabs with big lawsuits against mass censorship, rules requiring woke investments, and environmental communism.
Democrats are on the defensive in the Senate, with 10 Republican senators, three independents who support Democrats, and 20 Democrat senators up for election this year.
“Republicans need just one or two seats to reclaim the [Senate] majority — depending on which party wins the White House. Sen. Joe Manchin’s retirement almost certainly puts West Virginia in the GOP’s column, and Democratic incumbents are also up for reelection in the red states of Ohio and Montana. Other races to watch: Pennsylvania; Wisconsin; Michigan, Nevada and Arizona,” says Politico’s Ally Mutnick.
It’s not just whether Rs gain in the Senate, of course, but what they do while there. For some 60 years, Republican voters have endured capitulation and betrayal from the politicians they send to high office. In 1964, Phyllis Schlafly spoke for millions of Republican voters demanding “a choice, not an echo” from our representatives. We still demand that today, and
