A Brighter Vision For America

While Biden Has Delivered Crisis After Crisis, Republicans Are Eager To Offer Solutions To Get The Country Back On Track

AMERICANS HAVE LOST FAITH IN BIDEN

• Biden has failed as president, and Americans are ready for new leadership.
  • Biden has failed on energy independence, border security, crime, and the fentanyl crisis — by those measures and more, Biden has failed as president.
• Americans agree: the country is worse off under Biden’s leadership.
  • 61 percent of Americans believe the country is on the wrong track under Biden according to a recent Harvard-Harris poll.
  • A Gallup poll found that at one point in his presidency, Biden’s approval rating was lower than any other post-WWII president since Jimmy Carter.
  • 64 percent of Americans think Biden is a weak leader according to an Economist/YouGov poll.
• According to a poll from CNN, a majority of Americans trust Republicans in Congress over Biden to deal with major issues facing the country today.
  • House Republicans are delivering on their commitment to America, passing legislation to secure the border, make communities safer, give parents a say in their kids’ education, lower energy prices, and more.
• In states like Florida, Nebraska, and Iowa, voters are increasingly turning to and registering with the Republican Party.
• Meanwhile, Biden cares more about his vacation time than the American people, Biden has spent at least 424 days — 39.3% of his presidency — on vacation.
  • In 2023, Biden spent 142 days — 38.9% of the year — on vacation.
  • That includes at least 30 trips to Delaware, ten trips to Camp David, portions of two visits to the U.S. Virgin Islands, and vacations in Nantucket and Lake Tahoe..
  • Biden’s rate of vacationing outpaces virtually every other president in modern history.
• Biden has clearly failed, and we are less than a year away from voting him out in November.

VOTERS TRUST REPUBLICANS ON THE ECONOMY

• In Biden’s economy, hardworking Americans have struggled to stay afloat financially – finding it increasingly difficult to pay bills, save for retirement, or afford rent.
• Biden’s $1.9 trillion “stimulus” sent inflation soaring, with Americans forced to pay higher prices for virtually everything.
  • “Bidenomics” has cost the middle class $2.4 trillion since March 2022, with the average middle-class household losing over $33,000 in real wealth in just the past year.
  • Real wages remain lower than when Biden first took office.
• Americans know “Bidenomics” isn’t working for them, and instead overwhelmingly trust Republicans to get the economy back on track.
  • A majority of Americans say Republicans in Congress understand their economic problems better than Biden, according to a Harvard-Harris poll.
  • More Americans think Republicans have a better plan to reduce inflation, according to an Economist/YouGov poll.
  • The Republican Party holds a 12-point advantage on economic policy, according to a Pew Research survey.
• Republicans are delivering for the American people, passing legislation to strengthen America’s economy and rein in wasteful government spending.
  • House Republicans managed to secure a responsible debt limit agreement, which included $2.1 trillion in spending cuts.
  • House Republicans passed the REIN In Inflation Act to require the Biden administration to publish the inflationary impact of its executive actions.  

REPUBLICANS WANT TO MAKE AMERICA ENERGY INDEPENDENT AND LOWER ENERGY COSTS

• Biden has wreaked havoc on America’s energy independence after promising to “eliminate” oil and natural gas.
  • Biden halted oil and gas leases on federal lands, cancelled the Keystone XL Pipeline, and proposed billions in new taxes on the U.S. fossil fuel industry.
  • Under Biden’s leadership, all 50 states hit new record high gas prices. 
• U.S. average gas prices currently sit at $3.08 per gallon, which is more than 30 percent higher than when Biden became president.
• Instead of unleashing American energy producers, Biden depleted more than 40 percent of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum reserve, bringing it down to just 18 days of supply.
• Americans are paying the price for Biden’s anti-American energy agenda.
  • On average, Americans have lost over $2,250 paying increased energy costs since Biden took office.
  • Nearly 20 million households are behind on their utility bills.
• While Biden has been working to destroy American energy independence since the day he took office, House Republicans passed the Lower Energy Costs Act to put money back in American families’ pockets and restore American energy dominance.
  • Voters trust Republicans 2-to-1 over Democrats to boost domestic production of oil and gas according to a survey by Rasmussen Reports.

THE BORDER WILL BE SECURE UNDER REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP

• Biden's failed policies have created the current crisis at the southern border.
  • In Biden's first 100 days, he took more than 94 executive actions on immigration, including halting construction of the border wall and ending the successful "Remain in Mexico" policy.
• Under Biden’s watch, illegal immigrants and deadly drugs like fentanyl have flooded across the border.
  • Including "gotaways," there have now been more than 8.8 million illegal border crossings.
  • Since Biden took office, more than 25 tons of fentanyl have crossed the southern border – enough to kill well over 10 billion people. 
• Voters overwhelmingly disapprove of Biden’s handling of the border crisis and support Republican immigration policies.
  • 72 percent of Americans believe the border is a crisis/major problem, according to a Gallup poll.
  • Just 38 percent of Americans approve of Biden’s handling of immigration, according to a Harvard-Harris poll.
  • 60 percent of voters think Republicans would do a better job on border security, according to a Fox News poll.
• House Republicans passed the Secure the Border Act, the strongest border security bill in history, because Republicans understand that Americans everywhere are being impacted by the current border crisis.

REPUBLICANS WANT TO MAKE OUR STREETS SAFER

• Biden’s policies and rhetoric have enabled criminals – with crime spiking as a result.
  • Biden has failed to stand up to the radicals in his own party who pushed defunding the police and has surrounded himself with an administration full of defund the police activists.
  • In 2022, Biden signed an executive order that limited law enforcement and made it “harder for police to do their jobs.”
  • In 2023, Biden vetoed legislation that would have overturned progressive policies from the D.C. Council that are hamstringing District officers and placing them in unsafe situations.
• In 2022, at least nine cities, seven of which are Democrat-run, saw record homicides.
  • In Biden’s first year, at least 12 major U.S. cities – all Democrat-run – set new homicide records.
• Police departments are facing historic staffing crises as police officers have become fed up with the lack of support.
• Americans are feeling increasingly less safe in Biden’s America and trust Republicans to address the rise in crime.
  • 81 percent of Americans are concerned about the higher crime rates across the country, according to a Fox News poll.
  • 52 percent of Americans disapprove of Biden’s handling of crime, according to a recent Economist/YouGov poll.
  • According to the latest Harvard-Harris poll, 56 percent of Americans disapprove of Biden’s handling of violence and crime in the country.
  • Last cycle, Republicans held a 15-point advantage on the issue of crime, according to a ABC News-Ipsos poll.
• House Republicans are fighting for safer communities, passing legislation that blocked the enactment of the D.C. Council’s soft-on-crime bill.

REPUBLICAN WILL ENSURE THAT PARENTS ARE GIVEN A SAY IN THEIR KIDS’ EDUCATION

• Biden has been working to undermine parents’ rights since day one, instead taking his marching orders from teachers’ unions.
  • Biden’s Department of Justice targeted concerned and involved parents as “domestic terrorists.”  
  • Biden slow walked reopening school for months, even letting teachers’ union bosses and major campaign funders dictate CDC guidance.
    • National test results for students have plummeted to levels we have not seen in more than two decades.  
• Meanwhile, Republicans have been fighting to give parents a say in their kids’ education.
  • House Republicans passed a Parents’ Bill of Rights, affirming that parents should have the right to know what their children are being taught, be heard, see the school budget and spending, protect their child’s privacy, and keep their children safe.
  • Voters in battleground states trust Republicans to do a better job than Democrats in education, according to a new poll by Democrats for Education Reform.
• The Biden administration has failed to expand school choice for those who need it the most.
  • 71 percent of Americans, including 66 percent of Democrats, support school choice, according to a RealClear Opinion Research poll.
  • Republicans across all levels are fighting for school choice to empower parents to make the best decisions for their families.
• Biden supports "racial preferences" in school admissions, which effectively allows discrimination against Asian American students.
  • A majority of Americans believe race should not be a factor in college admissions, according to a Pew Research survey.
  • Republicans led the charge in ending race-based college admissions policies, leading to the Supreme Court striking down this practice.