Allen Whitt
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Allen Whitt (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent West Virginia. He lost in the Republican primary on June 9, 2020.
Whitt completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Allen Whitt was born in Huntsville, Alabama. He earned an undergraduate degree from Auburn University in January 1994. His professional experience includes serving as president of the Family Policy Council of West Virginia.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: United States Senate election in West Virginia, 2020
United States Senate election in West Virginia, 2020 (June 9 Republican primary)
United States Senate election in West Virginia, 2020 (June 9 Democratic primary)
General election
General election for U.S. Senate West Virginia
Incumbent Shelley Moore Capito defeated Paula Jean Swearengin and David Moran in the general election for U.S. Senate West Virginia on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Shelley Moore Capito (R) | 70.3 | 547,454 |
 | Paula Jean Swearengin (D)  | 27.0 | 210,309 | |
 | David Moran (L) | 2.7 | 21,155 | |
| Total votes: 778,918 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Franklin Riley (Unaffiliated)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. Senate West Virginia
Paula Jean Swearengin defeated Richard Ojeda and Richie Robb in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate West Virginia on June 9, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Paula Jean Swearengin | 38.3 | 71,725 |
 | Richard Ojeda | 32.9 | 61,712 | |
 | Richie Robb | 28.8 | 53,944 | |
| Total votes: 187,381 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. Senate West Virginia
Incumbent Shelley Moore Capito defeated Allen Whitt and Larry Butcher in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate West Virginia on June 9, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Shelley Moore Capito | 83.3 | 173,331 |
 | Allen Whitt | 9.6 | 19,972 | |
 | Larry Butcher | 7.1 | 14,673 | |
| Total votes: 207,976 | |||
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Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Allen Whitt completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Whitt's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Early in my career I was a writer and spokesperson for Dr. Billy Graham's Children's Crusades. Now I'm the President of the Family Policy Council of West Virginia. My organization works alongside others like Focus on the Family, The Family Research Council and Alliance Defending Freedom to defend faith, family and freedom. I'm a constitutional conservative who understands that if you take on a well-liked Republican incumbent, you better have a good reason. I have four.
- I am the only candidate in this race that believes Roe vs. Wade should be overturned.
- I am the only candidate in this race that believes Obergefeld should be overturned.
- As an avid marksman and hunter I oppose any consideration of so called "red flag" laws that would take away due process and infringe upon the rights of gun ownership. My opponent thinks they "make good sense."
Big government is mortgaging our children's futures and a refusal of our current Congress to limit spending will condemn our country to an eventual collapse. I would start with a renewed effort to restore the free market to healthcare. ObamaCare must be repealed and my opponent refused to vote for a straight repeal. America deserves a Constitutional conservative in the U.S. Senate from West Virginia who isn't afraid to challenge the status quo.
I am a devout Christian and there is no higher example than my savior to emulate. That is most important in times of conflict. Politics is about conflict and how the inevitable conflict of ideas can be won, but the victories managed, so that the loser of the policy debate still believes the process was fair and doesn't abandon the process next time for less civilized approaches.
Faith in the Creator who granted us our rights.
Character - how you behave when no one is looking
Treats others as they would want to be treated
Like President Lincoln, any public office holder who does not look to a higher authority before he or she makes decisions, lacks the primary quality to lead others. I will do that.
I order my personal priorities by God, others and then self. My policy approach will be similar.
Defends the original intent of the Constitution
I think that those who seek to leave their legacy through politics has been part of our American dilemma for a few decades now.
Instead, I plan to be a good neighbor as Robert Frost wrote, and the fences that divide us won't play such a prominent role in our legacy, instead they will be an opportunity to renew our relationships and minimize our differences.
I was on my way to track practice as a freshman decathlete when we got the news that the space shuttle had exploded. I had friends and relatives who had helped to design and construct our space program and in addition to the loss of the lives of our brave astronauts, I new that tens of thousands of employees' lives at NASA would be forever changed as well.
I grew up on My grandfather's dairy farm and working from sun up till sun down was a way of life.
In the Eye of the Storm
Max Lucado
It's focus is on being calm in the midst of the tempest.
The as of yet unnamed superhero who uses his policy powers to eliminate the national debt.
Remember You Young - Thomas Rhett
A common struggle for outspoken conservatives is our attempts to convey to our moderate or liberal opponents, that we too are motivated by love and compassion for our fellow citizens. But our compassion is delivered via logical and strategic policy approaches provided for within the framework of the U. S. Constitution.
-Our Constitution was designed for a moral people and it shall be wholly insufficient for any other. - The less moral our citizens become, the less likely our Constitutional form of government will remain intact.
As the resulting policy fissures widen, the national debt, unchecked immigration, violent terroristic attacks, and the loss of selflessness for our fellow citizens will continue to unravel the America that most patriots cherish,
The design of the two-representative per state model of the Senate, by the founding fathers, guaranteed that even the small states would have a place at the table of ideas of governing our Congress. West Virginia as a small state certainly benefits from that design.
The complexities of American policy and the potential impact of Senate votes on cultural and international, geopolitical dynamics, are not for the uninitiated. Our system makes it possible for a well-liked figure, perhaps even the child of a former politician, to be elected to the Senate. But that does not mean that that incumbent is best suited to lead on policy change when the courage to make a countercultural vote is nexessary.
Lawmaking is designed to be a slow process to protect against mob rule. The fewer laws we have the less our freedom infringed upon. If the country is so divided that the filibuster causes fewer laws to be passed then perhaps that os a good thing.
Are they Constitutional origionalists?
Politics is a team sport.
Ways and Means
If you make the rules you make the policy.
Modeling ones self after any Senator who has continued to spend our nation into almost unrecognizable debt is the exact opposite of why I am running for the Senate.
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on January 2, 2020
