About Gerardo Serrano
Degrees
Bachelor's, South Suburban College

Election Information

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Gerardo Serrano has a bachelor's degree from South Suburban College.

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Recent Candidacies
U.S. House of Representatives - Kentucky 5th Congressional District in June 23, 2020 Kentucky Regular and Presidential Primary Election
U.S. House of Representatives - Kentucky 5th Congressional District in May 22, 2018 Kentucky 2018 Primary Election

Recent Candidacies
U.S. House of Representatives - Kentucky 5th Congressional District in May 17, 2022 Kentucky Primary Election
U.S. House of Representatives - Kentucky 5th Congressional District in June 23, 2020 Kentucky Regular and Presidential Primary Election
U.S. House of Representatives - Kentucky 5th Congressional District in May 22, 2018 Kentucky 2018 Primary Election

Recent Candidacies
U.S. House of Representatives - Kentucky 5th Congressional District in November 3, 2026 Kentucky General Election
U.S. House of Representatives - Kentucky 5th Congressional District in May 17, 2022 Kentucky Primary Election
U.S. House of Representatives - Kentucky 5th Congressional District in June 23, 2020 Kentucky Regular and Presidential Primary Election

Gerardo previously ran for U.S. representative in Kentucky's 5th Congressional District in 2022, 2020, and 2018.

2026 Kentucky General Election

Rogers voted for it anyway.

I support allowing working Americans to keep more of what they earn. But tax cuts without sufficient spending cuts are not fiscal conservatism. When Washington reduces revenue while continuing to spend borrowed money, it has not eliminated the cost. It has merely transferred that cost to future taxpayers—with interest added.

Hal Rogers and Reckless Federal Government Spending

Hal Rogers has been in Congress since 1981. He voted to raise the retirement age. He voted to begin taxing Social Security benefits. He was there while Social Security’s extra cash was used by the rest of the federal government.
He was not standing outside watching it happen.
He was inside Congress, and he voted to change the promise.
I will oppose cutting the Social Security benefits people earned.
I will oppose raising the retirement age again.
I will oppose new taxes on Social Security benefits.
I will oppose hiding changes to Social Security inside a huge omnibus bill.
Any major change to Social Security should receive its own public vote.

Social Security: Keep the Promise

Supports tax cuts paired with sufficient spending reductions, arguing that tax cuts without such reductions shift costs to future taxpayers.

Opposes cutting Social Security benefits, raising the retirement age, taxing Social Security benefits, or including major Social Security changes in large, wide-ranging bills.

- Supports tax cuts paired with sufficient spending reductions, arguing that tax cuts without such reductions shift costs to future taxpayers.
- Opposes cutting Social Security benefits, raising the retirement age, taxing Social Security benefits, or including major Social Security changes in large, wide-ranging bills.

Economy

Working families are being squeezed by rising prices for food, housing, energy, healthcare, and insurance.

Washington spends too much, borrows too much, and asks ordinary Americans to pay the bill..

I will fight wasteful spending, protect Social Security and Medicare, and support policies that reward work, strengthen local businesses, and lower the cost of living.

Stories - Gerardo Serrano for Congress Kentucky's 5th District

Healthcare

In Congress, I will fight to:

End civil asset forfeiture without a criminal conviction.

Require full due process before the government can permanently take property.

Stop law-enforcement agencies from treating seized property as a source of revenue.

Make the government pay reasonable attorney fees and damages when property is wrongfully held.

Protect innocent owners whose property is connected to someone else’s alleged conduct.

The Government Took My Truck Without Convicting Me

I am not running for Congress merely to complain about what happened to Sophie or what happened to me.

I am running to change the law.

WHAT I WILL DO IN CONGRESS

If I am elected, I will introduce legislation requiring the federal government to reimburse a person’s reasonable attorney fees and necessary defense expenses when the government prosecutes that person and fails to obtain a conviction.

When the government brings a criminal case, it has police officers, investigators, prosecutors, laboratories and nearly unlimited taxpayer-funded resources behind it.

The Government Does Not Have to Be Right to Ruin Your Life

But attorney general is different.

Once you take that job, your loyalty has to be to the Constitution and the law — not personally to the president who appointed you.

And that is why this confirmation bothers me.

Who Does the Attorney General Serve?

Plans to end the seizure of property without a conviction, require due process, bar agencies from using seized property as revenue, and compensate wrongfully deprived owners.

Plans to introduce legislation reimbursing reasonable attorney fees and necessary defense expenses after unsuccessful federal criminal prosecutions.

Said an attorney general's loyalty must be to the Constitution and law rather than to the president who appointed them.

- Plans to end the seizure of property without a conviction, require due process, bar agencies from using seized property as revenue, and compensate wrongfully deprived owners.
- Plans to introduce legislation reimbursing reasonable attorney fees and necessary defense expenses after unsuccessful federal criminal prosecutions.
- Said an attorney general's loyalty must be to the Constitution and law rather than to the president who appointed them.

Public Safety

We have our own elderly.

Our own veterans.

Our own debt.

Our own borders.

Our own infrastructure.

Our own struggling families.

Our own poor communities.

Our own responsibilities.

If Netanyahu believes Israel must pursue a particular military course, then let Israel make that decision.

But America’s response can be very simple:

That is your decision. Now pay for it.

Israel, God, and America: Remember the Difference

Border Security Is National Security

America is a nation of laws. A secure border protects our communities, our workers, and lawful immigration.

Legal immigration strengthens America, but illegal entry, human trafficking, and the flow of deadly drugs weaken our security and strain our communities.

I will support stronger border enforcement, faster lawful immigration, and firm action against cartels and traffickers—while protecting due process and America’s constitutional principles.

Iran is responsible for those attacks. But Congress—not a militia and not one president—must decide whether America goes to war.

Congress must hold a recorded vote, define victory, disclose the cost and explain when our troops come home. I would vote NO to continuing an unauthorized war without a clear end.

Had I been representing Kentucky’s 5th Congressional District, I would have voted against entering an unauthorized war with Iran.

I would have required Congress to debate and vote on the war. I would have demanded a defined objective, an exit strategy, an honest accounting of the cost and an assessment of how the conflict would affect our ability to confront other threats.

I would have asked what the war meant for our national debt, military stockpiles, petroleum reserve and the promises we made to Social Security recipients.

Billions for War — a 22% Social Security Shortfall

America must be strong enough to deter both Russia and China. We cannot accomplish that by exhausting our money, weapons and energy reserves in one poorly considered conflict after another.

Supporting Taiwan’s right to defend itself does not mean giving a president unlimited power to begin a war with China.

Defending NATO does not mean Congress should surrender its constitutional authority over war.

Opposes U.S. financing of Israeli military decisions, saying Israel should pay for military action it chooses to pursue.

Supports stronger border enforcement, faster lawful immigration, and action against cartels and traffickers while protecting due process.

Would vote against continuing an unauthorized war without a clear end and require Congress to authorize war through a recorded vote.

Opposes giving a president unlimited authority to begin a war with China or surrendering Congress's authority over war when defending the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

- Opposes U.S. financing of Israeli military decisions, saying Israel should pay for military action it chooses to pursue.
- Supports stronger border enforcement, faster lawful immigration, and action against cartels and traffickers while protecting due process.
- Would vote against continuing an unauthorized war without a clear end and require Congress to authorize war through a recorded vote.
- Opposes giving a president unlimited authority to begin a war with China or surrendering Congress's authority over war when defending the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Foreign Policy and Immigration

As of September 15, 2026, Gerardo Serrano’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Energy & the Environment

I will oppose cutting the Social Security benefits people earned.
I will oppose raising the retirement age again.
I will oppose new taxes on Social Security benefits.
I will oppose hiding changes to Social Security inside a huge omnibus bill.
Any major change to Social Security should receive its own public vote. The people should be able to see exactly how their representative voted.
I will also provide the help expected from every member of Congress.

Opposes including major Social Security changes in large, wide-ranging bills and calls for separate public votes showing how each representative voted.

- Opposes including major Social Security changes in large, wide-ranging bills and calls for separate public votes showing how each representative voted.

Voting & Elections

Education

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Gerardo Serrano

- Supports stronger border enforcement, faster lawful immigration, and action against cartels and traffickers while protecting due process.
- Would vote against continuing an unauthorized war without a clear end and require Congress to authorize war through a recorded vote.
- Opposes giving a president unlimited authority to begin a war with China or surrendering Congress's authority over war when defending the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Candidate Profile
Gerardo Serrano
Candidate for U.S. House of Representatives - Kentucky 5th Congressional District in 2026 Kentucky General Election.

About Gerardo Serrano
Degrees
Bachelor's, South Suburban College

Election Information
Recent Candidacies
U.S. House of Representatives - Kentucky 5th Congressional District in November 3, 2026 Kentucky General Election
U.S. House of Representatives - Kentucky 5th Congressional District in May 17, 2022 Kentucky Primary Election
U.S. House of Representatives - Kentucky 5th Congressional District in June 23, 2020 Kentucky Regular and Presidential Primary Election
U.S. House of Representatives - Kentucky 5th Congressional District in May 22, 2018 Kentucky 2018 Primary Election

I support allowing working Americans to keep more of what they earn. But tax cuts without sufficient spending cuts are not fiscal conservatism. When Washington reduces revenue while continuing to spend borrowed money, it has not eliminated the cost. It has merely transferred that cost to future taxpayers—with interest added.

Supports tax cuts for working Americans only if accompanied by sufficient spending cuts.

- Supports tax cuts for working Americans only if accompanied by sufficient spending cuts.

He was inside Congress, and he voted to change the promise.
I will oppose cutting the Social Security benefits people earned.
I will oppose raising the retirement age again.
I will oppose new taxes on Social Security benefits.
I will oppose hiding changes to Social Security inside a huge omnibus bill.

I will oppose cutting the Social Security benefits people earned.
I will oppose raising the retirement age again.
I will oppose new taxes on Social Security benefits.
I will oppose hiding changes to Social Security inside a huge omnibus bill.
Any major change to Social Security should receive its own public vote. The people should be able to see exactly how their representative voted.

WHAT I WILL DO IN CONGRESS

If I am elected, I will introduce legislation requiring the federal government to reimburse a person’s reasonable attorney fees and necessary defense expenses when the government prosecutes that person and fails to obtain a conviction.

When the government brings a criminal case, it has police officers, investigators, prosecutors, laboratories and nearly unlimited taxpayer-funded resources behind it.

This is bigger than whether someone supports or opposes Donald Trump.

Justice must follow the evidence—not the wishes of the president, a political party or anyone else in power.

A prosecutor’s job should not depend upon continuing a case that the evidence cannot support. When government employees believe that telling the truth or dropping an unjustified prosecution could cost them their jobs, the message becomes dangerous:

The objection to your HB 58 vote is not that a lender should never recover a vehicle after a legitimate default. The constitutional concern is that automated license-plate-reader networks collect the time and location of innocent people’s movements before those people are suspected of any crime.

One camera seeing a plate on a public road is not the same as thousands of connected cameras creating a searchable history of where someone travels. That database can reveal when someone leaves home, where that person works, whom that person visits and where that person worships or receives medical care. Allowing government users to search that history without first demonstrating probable cause to a judge raises a serious Fourth Amendment issue.

Jackson County Reports - Gerardo Serrano for Congress

This is why constitutional safeguards must be built into the law before the technology is deployed—not after an innocent person is tracked, falsely stopped or harmed. Audit logs may reveal abuse afterward, but they do not prevent the original search. A record showing who opened the door is not the same as requiring a judge to authorize opening it.

Said prosecutors should follow the evidence and not continue cases unsupported by evidence.

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- Said prosecutors should follow the evidence and not continue cases unsupported by evidence.
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Legal immigration strengthens America, but illegal entry, human trafficking, and the flow of deadly drugs weaken our security and strain our communities.

I will support stronger border enforcement, faster lawful immigration, and firm action against cartels and traffickers—while protecting due process and America’s constitutional principles.

I WOULD HAVE LED DIFFERENTLY

Had I been representing Kentucky’s 5th Congressional District, I would have voted against entering an unauthorized war with Iran.

I would have required Congress to debate and vote on the war. I would have demanded a defined objective, an exit strategy, an honest accounting of the cost and an assessment of how the conflict would affect our ability to confront other threats.

I would have asked what the war meant for our national debt, military stockpiles, petroleum reserve and the promises we made to Social Security recipients.

We should help people when we can.

We should seek peace.

We should oppose the killing of innocent people whether they are Jewish, Palestinian, Christian, Muslim, or anything else.

But that is entirely different from believing the United States has some divine obligation to finance every military decision made by the government of Israel.

Supports stronger border enforcement, faster processing of lawful immigration, and action against cartels and traffickers while protecting due process.

- Supports stronger border enforcement, faster processing of lawful immigration, and action against cartels and traffickers while protecting due process.
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