- See Glenn Grothman's sponsored bills →Glenn GrothmanRepublicanIncumbent✓ Verified$1.1M raised
- Bradley SmithDemocratic✓ Verified$295K raised
- Michael ThurowIndependent✓ Verified$195K raised
- Elizabeth FitzgibbonIndependent✓ Verified$21K raised
- Matthew ArndtGreen✓ Verified
Where they stand
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| Issue | Glenn GrothmanRepublican | Bradley SmithDemocratic | Michael ThurowIndependent | Elizabeth FitzgibbonIndependent | Matthew ArndtGreen |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economy & Jobs | Grothman supports promoting skills-based education and refinancing student loans to improve economic opportunities. Grothman supports reducing government regulations and red tape to help the economy grow and create jobs. Grothman votes yea on multiple bills supporting financial regulation, capital access, privacy in purchases, and disaster insurance reauthorization. | Smith supports raising the minimum wage, expanding apprenticeships, rewarding companies that create jobs locally, and enforcing consequences for corporations that offshore jobs or close plants after receiving public mon… Smith wants increased investment in the UW System and technical schools, pointing to the system's drop to 44th in state funding nationally. | Thurow supports stronger federal oversight of utilities, pharmaceuticals, and essential goods to reduce prices and fight corporate price-gouging. Thurow wants to break up monopolies driving up grocery, prescription and utility costs, and let Medicare negotiate every drug price. | Fitzgibbon supports lowering costs for working families, seniors, and small businesses by strengthening competition, reducing price-gouging, and cutting unnecessary red tape. | Arndt would aggressively enforce antitrust law and stop anti-competitive mergers to counter corporate concentration driving up the cost of living. |
| Healthcare | Grothman supports getting more generic medication on the market to improve healthcare affordability. Grothman supports repealing and replacing Obamacare with a more free-market system while keeping sensible parts of the law. Grothman votes yea on acts reauthorizing rural care, Medicaid protections, lowering premiums, and supporting patients and communities. | Smith supports affordable healthcare as a right, protecting coverage for pre-existing conditions, lowering costs, expanding rural clinics and telehealth, and building toward universal coverage with a strong public optio… | Thurow supports Medicare negotiating all drug prices, banning private equity from healthcare services, and capping drug prices developed with taxpayer dollars. | Fitzgibbon supports reducing healthcare and prescription drug costs through more transparency, competition, and affordability across the system. | Arndt supports Medicare for All to make healthcare affordable and accessible. |
| Immigration | Grothman supports securing borders and fixing the broken immigration system. Grothman believes there is a crisis at the southwest border and supports addressing immigration by securing the border and being a member of the Border Security Caucus. Grothman votes yea on multiple immigration enforcement and security bills, and nay on a national emergency resolution. | Smith supports an immigration system that is lawful, workable, and humane, recognizing Wisconsin’s economic dependence on immigrant workers. | No public position found. Check their site ↗ | No public position found. Check their site ↗ | No public position found. Check their site ↗ |
| Where they differ on Immigration: Glenn Grothman supports securing borders and fixing the broken immigration system, believes there is a crisis at the southwest border, and votes yea on multiple immigration enforcement and security bills while voting nay on a national emergency resolution 123. Bradley Smith supports an immigration system that is lawful, workable, and humane, recognizing Wisconsin’s economic dependence on immigrant workers 4. | |||||
| Public Safety & Crime | Grothman votes yea on bills enhancing prison staff safety, protecting privacy, veterans’ gun rights, cashless bail reporting, and violent offender restrictions. | Smith supports requiring public disclosure, community approval, judicial warrants for sensitive searches, strict data retention limits, independent audits, and legal consequences for misuse of ALPR surveillance technolo… | No public position found. Check their site ↗ | No public position found. Check their site ↗ | Arndt opposes pardoning major drug traffickers, citing the pardon of a Honduran ex-president convicted of trafficking over 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S. |
| Abortion | No public position found. Check their site ↗ | No public position found. Check their site ↗ | No public position found. Check their site ↗ | No public position found. Check their site ↗ | No public position found. Check their site ↗ |
| Taxes & Government Spending | Grothman supports eliminating the marriage penalty in government assistance programs. Grothman supports the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act as beneficial for middle-class Americans and advocates for fiscal responsibility to reduce the national debt. Grothman votes yea on tax relief, budget resolutions, continuing appropriations, and national security and agriculture appropriations acts. | No public position found. Check their site ↗ | Thurow supports cutting taxes for the middle class and small businesses by closing corporate loopholes, targeting wasteful spending, and expanding the child tax credit. Thurow opposes taxing capital-gains income at a lower rate than wages and wants to close corporate tax loopholes. | Fitzgibbon supports cracking down on waste, fraud, and abuse in federal spending to ensure taxpayer dollars are used responsibly. | Arndt supports ending corporate welfare and redirecting funds to domestic priorities like schools, roads, and veterans. Arndt would close the carried-interest loophole and shift the tax burden from workers toward extreme wealth and monopoly profits. |
| Energy & Environment | Grothman supports protecting natural resources while balancing environmental protection with economic growth and job creation. Grothman votes yea on disapproving EPA rule, diesel emissions reduction, marine conservation, fuel retailer choice, and HEATS Act, but nay on battlefield protection amendments. | Smith supports protecting water, energy grid, and communities by requiring transparency, strong safeguards, and accountability for massive data center developments before approval. Smith calls for greater transparency and stronger local protections as data center and energy-infrastructure projects move forward across Wisconsin. | No public position found. Check their site ↗ | No public position found. Check their site ↗ | Arndt would freeze new AI data center construction until Congress sets rules protecting American workers and communities. |
| Foreign Policy & Defense | Grothman supports maintaining military readiness and ensuring the military has the resources needed to keep the country safe. Grothman votes nay on resolutions to remove US forces from Iran and Lebanon, yea on defense authorization and veterans clinic naming, and yea on FISA amendments. | No public position found. Check their site ↗ | No public position found. Check their site ↗ | No public position found. Check their site ↗ | Arndt supports stopping endless wars and cutting ties with Israel to prioritize American interests. |
| Where they differ on Foreign Policy & Defense: Glenn Grothman supports maintaining military readiness and ensuring the military has the resources needed to keep the country safe 1. He voted against removing US forces from Iran and Lebanon, and in favor of defense authorization, veterans clinic naming, and FISA amendments 2. Matthew Arndt supports stopping endless wars and cutting ties with Israel to prioritize American interests 3. | |||||