Chadwick Twillman

Republican | Michigan

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BIOGRAPHY

Name

Chadwick Twillman


Party

Republican


Election Year

2026


Election

Primary


Race

State Senator, Dist., 35


Incumbent

No


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OTHER INFORMATION

Michigan Women's interview with Chadwick Twillman in 2025.

Chadwick Twillman participated in a candidate forum  in 2025.

Chadwick Twillman completed the candidate questionnaire with Midland Daily News in 2025.

QUESTIONNAIRE

RIGHT TO LIFE

Abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, should not receive taxpayer funds from federal, state, or local governments (including Title X grants).

Strongly Agree

Taxpayer dollars should never fund organizations that perform abortions. Redirect every penny to services that truly support mothers, babies, and families without any conflict of interest.

Under what circumstances should an elective abortion be allowed?

I believe life begins at conception and deserves protection. Elective abortion should not be allowed after the point of viability with exceptions only for the life of the mother in rare medical emergencies. Michigan families need real support through adoption, community resources, and crisis pregnancy centers instead of taxpayer funded groups that profit from ending lives. We must value both mothers and babies.

Human life deserves legal protection from conception until natural death.

Strongly Agree

Every human life has inherent value from the moment of conception until natural death. Government exists to protect the vulnerable, not to decide who deserves to live.

The lives of human embryos created through artificial methods ought to be protected from purposeful destruction.

Strongly Agree

Human embryos are living human beings regardless of how they were created. They deserve full legal protection from intentional destruction just like any other person.

The Comstock Act, which bans interstate transportation of abortion-inducing drugs, should be enforced.

Strongly Agree

Powerful chemical abortion drugs carry serious risks to women and end innocent lives. Enforcing the Comstock Act protects mothers and babies while ensuring these drugs are not shipped across state lines like ordinary packages. Women deserve real medical care, not unregulated mail order procedures.


ECONOMY

What is your position on the minimum wage?

I support a reasonable minimum wage that reflects local costs in Michigan. However it must be paired with policies that actually grow jobs lower the cost of living on energy housing and taxes and create real opportunity.

Free enterprise and the right to private property are essential elements of a productive economic system.

Strongly Agree

As a small business owner I have seen firsthand how government over regulation taxes and interference crush opportunity. Free enterprise and strong private property rights allow working families and entrepreneurs to thrive. Government should get out of the way instead of picking winners and handing out favors to insiders and special interests.

List your top 3-5 priorities to eliminate government waste.

1. End all corporate welfare subsidies and no bid contracts that benefit big donors and connected insiders. 2. Dramatically cut bureaucratic overhead and redundant agencies. 3. Audit and reform entitlement programs including Medicaid and Medicare to eliminate fraud abuse. 4. Stop funding ineffective foreign aid and endless overseas conflicts. 5. Eliminate wasteful diversity equity and inclusion programs and non essential administrative bloat in education and government operations.


RELIGIOUS LIBERTY

What does "separation of church and state" mean to you?

Separation of church and state means the government cannot establish an official religion or interfere with the free exercise of faith. It is a one way wall that protects religious liberty from government overreach not the other way around. People of faith should be free to live according to their beliefs in public and private life without government forcing them to violate their conscience.

Individuals and businesses should be required to provide services even if it would violate their moral and/or religious beliefs.

Strongly Disagree

Government has no right to force individuals or businesses to violate their deeply held moral or religious convictions. True freedom means live and let live. Compelled speech or service destroys liberty and tolerance. We must protect conscience rights for everyone.


HEALTHCARE

What most closely matches your view on healthcare: A) Healthcare for all should be guaranteed and funded by the government with no private healthcare option. (includes "universal healthcare," "medicare for all," etc.) B) Healthcare insurance funded by the government should be available for all who want it, along with private healthcare options. C) Medicaid and Medicare should remain available, but no other taxpayer-funded programs are necessary. D) Taxpayer funded health care should be abolished in all forms, and Medicaid and Medicare should be defunded.

C) Medicaid and Medicare should remain available, but no other taxpayer funded programs are necessary. We must reform the broken system with full price transparency, crush Big Pharma corruption and conflicts of interest, restore true medical freedom, and unleash competition through AI telemedicine, home testing, robot pharmacies, and frontier therapies. This market driven approach will slash costs and deliver better outcomes without more government dependency or socialism.

The government should keep a database of people with various ongoing medical illnesses to assess the economic burden of treatment.

Strongly Disagree

Government databases tracking citizens medical conditions raise serious privacy concerns and open the door to abuse, discrimination, and surveillance. We need less government intrusion into personal health decisions, not more. Focus on price transparency, medical freedom, and innovation to lower costs instead of building bureaucratic tracking systems.


NATIONAL SECURITY

The Chinese Communist Party poses serious military, cyber security, intellectual property, and global economic threats to the United States.

Strongly Agree

We must decouple from adversaries, secure supply chains, and stop funding our enemies through bad trade deals.

Is the United States' relationship with Israel important, and if so why?

Yes. Israel is a key democratic ally in a dangerous region. Strong support for Israel advances US security, counters terrorism, and aligns with our values.


IMMIGRATION

I support the existence of sanctuary cities to protect undocumented persons.

Strongly Disagree

Sanctuary cities undermine the rule of law, endanger Michigan communities, and strain local resources meant for citizens. We must enforce federal immigration laws uniformly. Secure the border, end catch and release, and prioritize legal immigration that benefits American workers and families first. No special protections for those who entered illegally.


EDUCATION

I support eliminating the U.S. Department of Education and giving control back to states and communities.

Strongly Agree

The federal Department of Education has failed our kids while pushing national agendas and wasting billions. We should eliminate it and return full control and funding to states and local communities. Parents know best. Competition through school choice will improve outcomes and end one size fits all indoctrination from Washington.

Foreign governments should be prohibited from funding American education.

Strongly Agree

Foreign governments especially China and adversarial nations must be banned from funding or influencing American schools universities or curriculum. This is a national security issue. We cannot allow foreign money to shape what our children learn or push anti American ideologies. Education must serve Michigan families and American values first.


VALUES

Government should recognize and support the fundamental right and essential duty of parents to direct their child's health and educational well-being.

Strongly Agree

Parents have the God given right and duty to make decisions for their children. Government and schools must support not override this authority. I will always stand with parents first in health education and moral upbringing.

Attempts to physically or socially transition a child to the opposite sex constitute child abuse.

Strongly Agree

Pushing irreversible chemical or surgical changes on minors is child abuse. We must protect our most vulnerable from harmful gender ideology. Biological reality matters and parents not activists or government should guide these decisions.

Marriage is a God-ordained, sacred and legal union of one man and one woman. No government has the authority to alter this definition.

Strongly Agree

Marriage is a God ordained sacred union between one man and one woman. Government has no power to redefine what God has established. Strong traditional families are the foundation of a healthy society and I will defend this truth.

I support the expansion of gambling in my state.

Strongly Disagree

Expanding gambling preys on vulnerable families creates addiction and drains local economies. We should not grow government revenue by exploiting our people. Michigan needs real economic opportunity through jobs skills and freedom not more vice.

Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.

I am a Christian who has fully surrendered my life to our father God. He is who I serve above all else and the ultimate guide of my path in every decision I make. My faith my redemption story and daily reliance on God shape everything I do as a husband father of five and candidate. I am committed to truth, hard work, protecting the innocent, accountability and loving my neighbor by fighting for better opportunities for the people of District 35. All glory goes to God.


ELECTIONS AND VOTING

People should be able to vote without photo identification.

Disagree

Secure elections require voter ID, same day registration safeguards, and paper ballots. Trust in our system demands it, no excuses.


EQUALITY

Reparations should be given to people on the basis of race.

Strongly Disagree

Reparations based on race divide Americans and punish people today for sins of the past. We should judge every individual by their character and actions not skin color. True justice means equal opportunity under the law equal protection and helping all who are in need regardless of race through economic freedom better schools and strong families not race based payouts.

Biological males should not be allowed to participate in women's sports or occupy biological women's spaces whether it be bathrooms, locker rooms, sorority houses, women's shelters, or prison.

Strongly Agree

Biological reality matters. Allowing biological males in womens sports spaces or shelters destroys fairness and puts women and girls at risk. Safety privacy and equal opportunity for females must come first. I will always protect women and girls from policies that ignore basic biology.


ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT

Man-made climate change is a global threat and requires urgent political action.

Strongly Disagree

I reject the alarmist narrative used to justify job killing regulations higher energy costs and government control. Stricter mandates hurt Michigan families manufacturers and workers while delivering minimal real environmental benefit. We need affordable reliable energy through American innovation not rushed political agendas that undermine our economy and energy independence.

What do you believe is the most reliable energy source that will supply the growing demand for electricity?

Immediate: nuclear and natural gas for baseload power. Long term: unleash decentralized Energy3 technologies like modular fusion graphene harvesting and nano diamond batteries for unlimited clean onsite energy ending high bills.


ABOUT YOU

When you consider your views on a wide range of issues from economic and social matters to foreign policy and religious liberty, which of the following best describes you overall?

Conservative

I am a Conservative who puts Michigan families first. I reject big corporate and special interest control of our government. My focus is on practical solutions like lower taxes, safer communities, better schools, and stopping wasteful spending in Lansing. I am anti establishment because the insiders have failed the people I serve.

Have you ever been penalized for sexual misconduct in either civil or criminal court? If so, please explain.

No. Not in any way, shape or form.

Have you ever been convicted of a felony? If so, please explain.

Yes, I was convicted of a felony at age 20. Visiting my cousin in Tempe, Arizona, I heard a woman screaming and stopped a much larger man who was choking and beating her with her clothes ripped off. The woman later testified that I prevented her from being raped or killed. I accepted a plea deal after 4 months in custody. This happened many years ago. I have had a clean record since. It strengthened my commitment to protecting people, and I carry those same values of courage into this campaign


CRIMINAL JUSTICE & PUBLIC SAFETY

What should be the goal of the criminal justice system?

The primary goal of the criminal justice system must be to protect law abiding citizens by swiftly punishing criminals, preventing crime, and keeping dangerous offenders off our streets. It should focus on justice for victims, rehabilitation where possible, and ensuring criminals face real consequences. The system has strayed too far toward protecting criminals instead of Michigan families. We must restore common sense accountability.

Government has a responsibility to protect children from sexual exploitation during online activities.

Strongly Agree

I strongly agree. Government must aggressively protect children from online predators and exploitation. This includes strict enforcement, holding tech companies accountable, and giving parents tools to safeguard their kids.

Sharia law should not be accepted or incorporated in any form within the legal framework of the United States.

Strongly Agree

American law is based on the Constitution. No form of Sharia law should ever be accepted or incorporated in any part of our legal system or our schools. I have already written a Bill, the “Religous Freedom Act” that will put this into concrete.


2ND AMENDMENT

What restrictions on gun ownership are needed to protect public safety?

Enforce existing laws against criminals and the mentally ill. Constitutional carry, school safety, and armed responsible citizens actually prevent crime. No new infringements on law abiding Michiganders. Full Constitutional carry must be upheld and safeguarded across the entire country.

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