Bryan Hyde

Republican | Idaho

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Bryan Hyde — State Senator, Dist. 26 (Idaho Primary | May 19, 2026)
State Senator, Dist. 26 Idaho General | November 3, 2026
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BIOGRAPHY

EDUCATION

College of Southern Idaho, Twin Falls, AA Liberal Arts, 1988-1991

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CONSERVATIVE (3)

National Rifle Association NRA-PVF

ConservativesOf: Idaho

The Bearded Patriots

OTHER INFORMATION

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

Under what circumstances should an elective abortion be allowed?

To prevent the death of the mother due to medical emergency.

Human life deserves legal protection from conception until natural death.

Strongly Agree

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

Agree

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

Agree


ECONOMY

What is your position on the minimum wage?

There should be no minimum wage.

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

Strongly Agree

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

Control spending. Root out waste. Protect the taxpayer.


RELIGIOUS LIBERTY

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

The state should have no control over religion.

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

Strongly Disagree

Freedom of association means freedom to refuse to associate.


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.

Compelling taxpayers to provide for another person's healthcare is forced charity. A proper single payer system would have the patient as the single payer, not the government.

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

Disagree

Government's job is to protect and guarantee our inalienable rights, not to build databases on us.


NATIONAL SECURITY

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

Neutral

Is the threat to the power centers of the U.S. government or to the actual people of the United States? Our interests are not one and the same.

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

It's taken on critical importance in direct proportion to the degree of control that one country has on another country's policies.


IMMIGRATION

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

Neutral

This is the beauty of fifty states that can serve as a laboratory for what works and what doesn't. Sanctuary cities should not be receiving federal or state taxpayer dollars to support their policy.


EDUCATION

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

Strongly Agree

Is education of our students the goal or are we simply building a massive work program for educators?

Foreign governments should be prohibited from funding American education.

Agree

In principle, I agree. At the same time, I'd need to see an example of how this is happening.


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

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

Strongly Agree

Even 20 years ago, such an act would have been viewed as monstrous.

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

The first marriage licenses were used as a tool to deny the rights of inheritance to lawful heirs of those whose religion was held in disfavor.

I support the expansion of gambling in my state.

Disagree

Vices should not be crimes but the state should not be a party to regulating them for profit.

Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.

I believe we are all children of God and that our natural rights exist prior to earthly governments whose proper role is to protect those rights.


ELECTIONS AND VOTING

People should be able to vote without photo identification.

Disagree

It should be very difficult to cheat or game our voting systems.


EQUALITY

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

Strongly Disagree

The problem of slavery was solved by other people in another time. This is simply plunder masquerading as a kind of perverted justice.

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

Denying the reality of the biological sexes is a fad.


ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT

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

Strongly Disagree

Give us enough tax money and we'll change the climate? Yeah, right.

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

There's a place for fossil fuels as well as nuclear energy. Small modular reactors seem a particularly promising advancement.


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?

Choose not to answer

Which label would best describe me? No thanks. I could accept whatever label believes that natural rights limit government's power over us.

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

Nope.

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

Nope.


CRIMINAL JUSTICE & PUBLIC SAFETY

What should be the goal of the criminal justice system?

To make whole those who have been actually harmed and to hold those who do harm accountable for their actions.

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

Disagree

That's the job of parents, clergy, community, academia, media and businesses.

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

Neutral

This statement needs more context. What is Sharia law and how would it supplant our common legal protections?


2ND AMENDMENT

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

Those who bear arms on behalf of the state should be carefully screened for abusive or antisocial tendencies and the citizenry should be free to protect itself with the best tools for the job without seeking state permission.

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