Bryan McKinney
Candidate, U.S. Senate West Virginia
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Bryan McKinney (Republican Party) is running for election to the U.S. Senate to represent West Virginia. He declared candidacy for the Republican primary scheduled on May 12, 2026.
McKinney completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Bryan McKinney was born in State College, Pennsylvania. He graduated from State College Area High School. He earned a bachelor's degree from Pennsylvania State University in 2005. His career experience includes working in sales. He has been affiliated with Trail Life USA.[1][2]
Elections
2026
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2024
See also: United States Senate election in West Virginia, 2024
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2026
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Bryan McKinney completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by McKinney's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I am a husband and father of 7 children. I am your American ONLY candidate, not America first as many claim to be. America is the last best hope for all mankind. Many republicans, including several running for this office are not for our freedom or liberty. They only want power, leadership positions, and access to the political elite party in DC. I believe we owe nothing to the rest of the world and need to focus and ensure our freedoms and liberty ONLY and always. Our government has become our number one threat. I have always worked in the private sector. I am 45. Christian. As many other Americans I work two jobs to support my family. I work in the fields of athletics and robotics. I paint hundreds of athletic fields each year and I sell athletic field paint and painting equipment. I have worked in this market for the last decade.
In my free time I enjoy spending time with my children and volunteering with scouts. My hobbies include photography, shooting, kayaking, hiking, golf, and reading about American history.
- To ensure our country's future we need to deport all Muslims to Islamic countries. Islam is not compatible with freedom or liberty. We need term limits to stop anyone from holding office more than 1 term. We also need to cut off the money for corruption by ending all federal taxes including the income tax and inheritance taxes. Government has stolen so much from us including much of our liberty. We The People need to take it back. Some Republicans running for this office are just as bad as some have spend billions already as West Virginia elected officials and now want to continue this extortion and theft as your next US Senator. We need better candidates. I am willing to fight to end this corruption and fight for us, We The People.
- Our second Amendment rights need to be restored. All laws at the state level and federal level restricting gun ownership need to be abolished. We need to have national conceal to carry. We need to ban all gun owner databases. No permits to own guns. We need to ban martial law from ever being forced on us. We need to hold drug companies financially and legally accountable for all drug injuries and death they cause. We need to end the military draft. We need to ban ALL Muslims from holding any office in the USA. We need to ban mail in voting and require showing ID when voting in person. No more absentee voting. We need to ban ALL spying on US citizens email, phone calls, and other communication. Make facial recognition illegal in the USA.
- We need to end the Federal Reserve, end the IRS, end the ATF. We need to band foreign countries and citizens from owning any US land or farms and take back any currently owned. We need to go back to the gold standard. We need to ban all payments by the federal government to private or non-profit companies and all other countries. We need to get out of the United Nations. We need to deport ALL illegal aliens. We need to ban any and all weather manipulation by water, air, or any other means. We need a ban on Federal IDs including any form of Digital ID or REAL ID. We also need age limits for federal office, I support using 60 as the oldest age to serve. I would also remove and stop all retirement payments to former congressmen and senators.
Ending taxes on the American people. Ending our forever wars in other countries. Allowing every American to have medical freedom so that they are never required any drug/vaccine to hold a job or send their children to school. We need a serious national border that is supported by our military. We need to force banks to stop charging high interest rates and require only simple interest not compound interest for all loans. Gun rights.
George Washington. Here is a man that sacrificed greatness for the smallest hope of freedom and liberty that no king could ever grant.
What I look for in someone worthy to hold office in our country is whether or not they have a deep love of freedom and liberty. I want to see that person speak up and often about the treats to freedom that government creates in our lives. I want to hear that person talk about the slavery created by taxes and I want to see them fighting to end taxation of us, We The People. I want to see someone who doesn't seek leadership or fame or power or a career. I want someone who has a hatred of corruption in their heart. I want someone who is sicked by the idea of a balanced budget - for government needs no budget as it needs none of our money. I want someone who doesn't talk about wanting to be a leader in that position. I want someone who talks about terms limits and will not support any laws or legislation that spends one penny of our hard earned money. I want someone who despises the never ending wars our corrupt government keeps spending trillions of dollars on. I want someone who is America ONLY not America First! I want someone who understands that government is never supposed to take care of anyone as it is incapable of doing so. I want someone who is honest about what government can only do - steal from the people and kill or enslave as that what history has shown all across mankind's history. Government provides no real jobs and I want someone to be honest about that. I want someone who loves our Constitution and who would rather die that defile that great document. I want someone who doesn't look at their office as part of a team fighting against the other team but rather as their position as a duty to secure and defend our liberty. I want the opposite of what I see in congress.
To serve one term. Not to spend our money but rather debate the issues of the day with other senators. I want someone who will say no to all un-Constitutional spending. I want someone who will have town hall meetings with us, We the People often.
That I helped bring back our lost freedoms and ended the slavery of taxation in America.
The Challenger Explosion and Boris Yeltsin on the tank after communism fell in Russia. I was very young.
Worked in a local restaurant for several years after high school into college.
I really enjoyed Tom Clancy novels. They were so thrilling to read and were so supportive of America and freedom.
Illegal immigration and the Muslim invasion that has begun across our country.
1 term only. Enough of all the so called conservatives and republicans (by the way those terms mean nothing anymore because so many pretend to be this but will serve a career in congress if not voted out). 2 terms is even too long for anyone to hold federal office. It is so much time to become corrupt and bought by lobbyists and special interest criminals.
Originally when the Senators were appointed by the State's as it should still be, the Senate was much more accountable to the people. This has been lost and now is a popularity match between elite powerful people who stay in office forever. Now the US Senate serves as a prime example of corruption and greed to the American people and what not to be in their personal lives.
Just the opposite. Look at our current Senator- career politician who has spent billions while in West Virginia and trillions as a US Senator. We have a WV state senator who has spent billions in the WV senate and is part of the leadership which means the most corrupt in our state. When people I meet talk to me about these corrupt people with such colorful language I know they are bad for our freedom and not who we need in the US Senate. I'd honestly have you, the reader, running but I can't ask of you what I am not willing to do myself.
It needs to remain. The founders gave it to us for darn good reasons.
None. I want to be my own person. I could spend hours looking up names to please you the reader but I don't think senators need to have these great legacies. In fact that today would be mostly because of how corrupt and criminal they were.
How long have they been a judge, can they explain their job to me in 20 seconds. As long as they follow the rule of law and not emotions or international law they would be qualified.
This is not a team sport. If people don't like me I'm ok with that. I'm not running to make friends or build coalitions. I am running for us, We The People. If people agree with what I stand for then we can work together. Anyone who is against liberty and freedom and part of the status corrupt quo will be against me.
Sometimes but I would never vote to spend a penny of our dollars that increased or created taxes.
As little as possible. We don't need to spend money for witch hunts.
The Council on American Exceptionalism in 2024
It is the president's choice on who they appoint. We need to make sure they are a legal American and can read and write. Elections have consequences. It is not up to the Senate to decide if we like those appointees just if they can perform normal human functions.
Met many mother's of vaccine injured children when I ran the first time. I also met many veterans who were thrown out like trash by our government and not taken care of.
Zero, government should have almost nothing to do with the free marketplace.
Force only paper ballots with an ID and outlaw absentee voting.
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2024
Bryan McKinney completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by McKinney's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I work in the private sector with automated robotics. I am a father of 6, pro-life, conservative, supportive of gun rights, term limits, and limiting government power and spending.
- Constitutional amendment for term limits to federal office
- Replacement of the 16th Amendment (income tax) with a 3% federal sales tax on only new purchases.
- Pro-life father of 6, supporter of the 2nd Amendment
Limiting the size and function of the federal government to only what is specifically written in the Constitution. Making sure law abiding citizens have no barriers to owning fire arms. Having a national discussion on whether or not to leave the United Nations. School reform including school choice and focusing on education of American history to our children. Forcing term limits on federal elected officials.
I think a lot about the framers and founders of our country more than anyone else in history. I think of their sacrifice and how hard each day must have been. I often think of George Washington sitting around the fire praying to God that He would give them one more day to keep fighting the British. I think a lot about the cold and tired soldier during the Revolutionary War. I think of Hamilton and Jefferson and Ben Franklin looking out the window in Philadelphia wondering if all this was really worth it and if the British would burst in at any moment and hang me the next day. I think of the wives of these patriots wondering if everything they had would be destroyed by the British.
I would like to follow Washington's term limits for office. Our freedom is not so precious that it is dependent on any one person to serve their entire life in office. Freedom needs no king.
I would recommend that someone go the Prager University's website and watch their videos to understand what kind of person I am.
Honor, integrity, honesty,
I am a good communicator. I am an honest and hardworking individual.
To be a voice for their state in Washington DC. To keep government from infringing upon our liberties and only allowing government to exist as the founders intended. To cut wasteful government spending.
I would like to see federal term limits passed. I would also like to see the income tax abolished.
I clearly remember Boris Yeltsin on top of a tank on television showing the fall of communism in Russia. I also remember seeing video of the fall of the Berlin Wall. I was 9 when the wall fell and 11 when communism crashed in Russia.
I was a server and greeter at a small local restaurant in my home town. I worked there for most of college so about 4-5 years.
Anything by Tom Clancy. He had a great way of taking you into the story rather than reading it as an observer.
Rich Men North of Richmond.
Finding enough time to exercise!
Dealing with over taxation, illegal immigration, over regulation that hurts business. Free and fair elections.
I believe at most two terms to the US Senate is enough. I may support the limit of 1 elected term to the US Senate if given the opportunity to vote for that.
The given duty to advise and consent on appointments from the President. The ability to represent the will of the people.
No. In fact it may hurt them.
It is a great tool to help keep government over reach from hurting individual freedom.
Why did the banana go to the doctor? It wasn't peeling well.
How does that nominee view the Constitution and function of government.
Find other senators who believe in limited government and term limits. I would also seek to work with senators who would only support spending money on what is in the Constitution.
Yes, to a point. There is too much emphasis on bi-partisanship which today means conservatives need to be the only ones that compromise on an issue.
Only to focus on government abuse of spending and over reach. Not to investigate crimes of individuals. It should also oversee that states do not infringe upon the Bill of Rights.
Asking those appointees what is the function and role of government. Can they justify the office they are seeking as being essential for the preservation of individual liberty. Is this individual good for freedom or good for big government?
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- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on November 20, 2023
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on December 4, 2025
