Travis L. Bost

Strongly Agree

The unborn child has a right to life, so ending that life for non-medical reasons is wrong. I do not, however, trust distant government bureaucracies as the primary enforcement arm. These questions belong first at the family and community level; government’s role should stay limited, clear, and as close to the people as possible.

Strongly Agree

Human life deserves legal protection from conception until natural death. As a libertarian, my focus is on ensuring this protection is upheld without expanding the size and power of the state. I favor keeping the government’s role severely limited, clear, and decentralized. These sensitive matters belong at the family and community level, ensuring we protect the vulnerable without creating overreaching bureaucracy.

Agree

I agree that human embryos represent human life and deserve protection from purposeful destruction. I strongly support fertility assistance and the right of couples to build families. However, the best path forward is to encourage ethical medical practices that minimize the creation of excess embryos and prioritize compassionate options like embryo adoption. We should encourage and empower families and medical professionals to make these responsible choices through voluntary standards.

Agree

I support legal protection for the unborn, but I oppose weaponizing the federal Comstock Act to police the United States Postal Service and private interstate shipping. As a candidate for State Senate, I believe that federal overreach is dangerous, regardless of the intention. West Virginia is fully capable of managing its own laws regarding medicine and safety. We must handle these sensitive issues through clear, local state laws and strong communities, rather than expanding Washington's power.

The true minimum wage is $0—what a worker earns when a job is never created or is eliminated because the mandate exceeds the value of the work. I support raising real wages through economic growth, lower taxes and regulation, and removing barriers.

Strongly Agree

Audit and review state spending programs and agencies, defunding those that exceed or fail to accomplish their intended purposes. End corporate welfare and special tax incentives that pick winners and losers. Greater legislative scrutiny and review of unelected state agencies. Eliminating burdensome regulatory frameworks that squander economic opportunity while creating extra costs to taxpayers.

Separation of church and state means what the First Amendment actually says: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. It does not require the removal of religious expression from public spaces or ceremonies. It also does not require the government to rotate through every religion or give equal time to every faith in official proceedings simply for the sake of diversity.

Strongly Disagree

D) Government involvement has driven up costs and reduced choice. The better path is expanding market alternatives—greater competition, price transparency, health savings accounts, reduced regulation, and interstate insurance sales—so people can obtain affordable care without relying on taxpayer programs. Medicaid and Medicare should be reformed and gradually transitioned rather than expanded.

Strongly Disagree

These analyses can be performed with anonymous, aggregated data. Individual tracking and data collection is an unnecessary expansion of state power.

Agree

I agree that the Chinese Communist Party presents real military, cyber, and intellectual property challenges, but Washington should address these with targeted reciprocity rather than broad protectionism that fuels domestic inflation. A State Senator's priority is West Virginia's economy. We protect our workers not by building federal regulatory walls that raise prices on everyday goods, but by slashing state taxes, cutting red tape, and turning West Virginia into a land of real opportunity.

The U.S. relationship with Israel matters only to the extent it serves concrete American interests—nothing more. Shared intelligence or regional positioning does not justify ongoing foreign military aid, weapons transfers, or entanglement in Israel’s conflicts. Taxpayer dollars must be kept at home to secure our own nation and economy, rather than underwriting the security and defense budgets of foreign nations.

Neutral

I disagree with sanctuary policies that expand local government programs, but I firmly believe in the Tenth Amendment. Local police are paid by local taxpayers to keep our specific West Virginia communities safe from violent crime and theft—not to serve as unpaid agents for the federal bureaucracy.

Strongly Agree

Agree

Public schools and state universities must never become vectors for foreign propaganda or intellectual property theft. While I support private individuals seeking education in a free market, we must enforce strict transparency and prevent foreign regimes from buying influence inside publicly funded classrooms and research centers.

Strongly Agree

Agree

Children should not be subjected to permanent medical procedures they can't possibly consent to. Consenting adults should be completely free to live their lives without government interference.

Agree

No government has the authority to alter the spiritual definition of marriage, a sacred covenant between one man and one woman; which is why the government should not be in the business of licensing or regulating it at all. The state should privatize marriage entirely, leaving religious institutions free to define it according to their faith, and allowing consenting adults to manage their own private relationships.

Agree

Although I am personally opposed to the practice, I agree with fully deregulating gambling because consenting adults should have the freedom to spend their own money without state interference. While the government has a duty to prosecute fraud and protect minors, it should not act as a moral gatekeeper for peaceful adult behavior. Removing arbitrary restrictions on gaming respects personal liberty and opens up economic opportunities without expanding the state's regulatory footprint.

I am a Christian who believes the Bible is the inspired word of God; salvation is found in Christ Jesus. One becomes "in Christ" through hearing the Word, believing in Him, confessing that Jesus is the Son of God, repenting of sins, and being "buried" with Him in a water baptism, rising to walk in newness of life. Those who are saved are added to His kingdom, the church of Christ. There is no earthly spiritual authority save the Word of God; the pattern of salvation, worship, and what the Church looks like is found only in scripture, not synods, papacies, or associations of men.

Disagree

Because government actions carry the force of law, the process of choosing our leaders must be secure, transparent, and beyond reproach. Verifying a voter’s identity protects the integrity of our elections and ensures that outcomes are decided fairly by those with a legal stake in our community. Other limited use but legitimate, reliable methods should be explored in the rare event a photo ID isn't an option.

Strongly Disagree

The proper role of our legal system is to rectify specific, identifiable harms done to individual victims where property theft or state overreach can be proven. Broad, race-based government programs are divisive, administratively impossible, and punish modern taxpayers for historic wrongs they did not commit.

Strongly Agree

Biological sex must be respected to guarantee fairness, privacy, and safety in sports and designated spaces. True liberty requires protecting individuals from government-mandated identity policies that compromise privacy or safety in public facilities, while simultaneously protecting the right of private organizations to set their own association rules.

Strongly Disagree

Top-down political action often results in bureaucratic waste, higher energy costs for families, and crippled industries. The true path to a cleaner environment is through free-market innovation, protecting private property rights, and removing government barriers so American entrepreneurs can develop cheaper, cleaner, and more efficient energy technologies.

The most reliable energy source is whatever free market option delivers uninterrupted power at the lowest cost to consumers. West Virginia’s coal and abundant natural gas are the most reliable foundation, while nuclear energy is further refined.

Lean Conservative

In Charleston, the supermajority often grows the state budget and state code instead of shrinking it--passing nearly 300 bills per year. I believe in true fiscal conservatism: keeping government small, eliminating red tape for small businesses, and protecting your personal privacy. I am the only candidate in this race who will consistently vote to keep the government out of both your wallet and your private life.

Never.

Never.

The goal of criminal justice should be justice for victims and fiscal responsibility for the taxpayer. Locking people up for victimless offenses, or solely for offending the government, comes at a massive cost to taxpayers. We must pivot toward a system of restitution—where non-violent offenders work to pay back the people they harmed—and focus prison space strictly on isolating violent criminals who pose a real threat to our communities.

Agree

I strongly agree that protecting children from exploitation is a fundamental duty of our legal system. However, we must achieve this by aggressively prosecuting criminals and empowering parents, not by giving government agencies the power to spy on innocent citizens or censor the internet. True safety comes from targeted law enforcement and strong families, not federal overreach into your digital privacy.

Strongly Agree

None.