COMMON SENSE: Vote for Republicans

The reason you should vote for Republicans at all elected positions is that they lead with common sense. Republicans believe you should keep men out of women’s sports, keep secure borders, keep crime down that is at its lowest in about 100 years, just to name a few reasons. 

On September 22, 2026, I heard both Marc Thiessen, a Washington Post columnist and Scott Shellady a former business education professor at Depaul University on Fox Business explain how successful the Trump administration has been in this term. 

Marc said Trump has a good record with peace deals with Congo, Rwanda, Cambodia, Thailand, India, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Azerbaijan and the implementation of Abraham Accords. By doing this it probably saved millions of lives. Trump freed the Venezuela people from an evil dictator. Trump disarmed Iran of a nuclear weapon capability that was sure to be used against our Israeli friends and possibly Europe as well. Trump regained control of the Panama Canal from China. 

Trump has secured an agreement with Greenland for our new bases to be placed there that will tremendously help to keep our country safer. Trump achieved these successes because of his belief in “Peace Through Strength.”

While doing these important things, Trump worked to lower Biden’s high inflation of accumulated rate of just over 20% from the end of Biden’s four-year term to around 3% annually this year which is close to the U.S. historic average since 1914 of 3.2%.  

Trump has been working to get them down by reducing oil production regulations and opening up our rich oil fields for drilling that help improve the affordability problem for Americans. Trump further helped affordability by eliminating tax on tips up to $25,000 and also no tax on Social Security. 

DON MURRELL, SR.

Coeur d’Alene