How to make the footer menu look like main menu on top? - wordpress

I am using a theme called "Venture" and created a child theme to edit the styling via CSS, however I am running into a bit of an issue. The navigation our client wants to use is available on top as part of the theme, as the main nav, but the footer menu/nav is a different styling altogether and seems to be wrapped by a PHP function or a widget, I can't really tell.
I want to to make it look like the one on top. However, no matter what I do in CSS it won't change, and I find that by adding more CSS code which is essentially already in the parent theme is redundant and unnecessary, since I can use them if coded correctly. How to solve this issue?
The site I am building is on a sub-domain on WP.

Ok so I figured out a great way to do this. Basically I created a footer.php file and added it to my child theme folder. I copied the code from the parent "footer.php" file and pasted to the Child version. Then I removed the guts of the menu where it inside of the It used to point to secondary menu, now it points to primary. Then I followed it up by styling with CSS. I renamed menu to menu_2 as follows:
<div class="menu_2">
<?php if (has_nav_menu( 'primary' )) {
wp_nav_menu( array(
'container' => 'menu',
'container_class' => '',
'menu_class' => 'dropdown',
'menu_id' => 'mainmenu',
'sort_column' => 'menu_order',
'theme_location' => 'primary'
));
} else {
echo '<p>Please set your Main navigation menu on the <strong>Appearance > Menus</strong> page.</p>';
} ?>
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