Jim Risch
RepublicanIncumbent
U.S. Senator since 2009; Governor of Idaho in 2006 and lieutenant governor before that
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U.S. Senate · Nov 3, 2026
Incumbent: Jim Risch, running for re-election.
No Democrat is on the ballot: primary winner David Roth withdrew in August, citing a lack of support from the Democratic Party.
U.S. Senator since 2009; Governor of Idaho in 2006 and lieutenant governor before that
Idaho state representative from Boise from 2024 to 2025; Army veteran and public policy professor at Boise State University
Author and former software-industry worker from the Treasure Valley
Video game developer and Libertarian Party of Idaho activist; 2024 Libertarian nominee for Idaho's 1st congressional district
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RepublicanJim Risch
Supports securing the border, enforcing immigration laws and holding criminals accountable.
“A nation without secure borders is not sovereign.”
IndependentTodd Achilles
Supports more staff and technology for Customs and Border Protection, letting employers legally hire foreign workers when local jobs go unfilled, and reviving Sen. James Lankford's bipartisan immigration bill.
IndependentNatalie Fleming
Supports a strong border and a simpler, faster legal immigration process that integrates workers into the economy.
LibertarianMatt Loesby
Supports closing the border to immigrants except those invited by U.S. citizen landowners who accept financial responsibility for them, deporting uninvited immigrants, and ending birthright citizenship.
RepublicanJim Risch
Says he led the Senate effort to stop a proposal to sell some of Idaho's public lands, and supports keeping them in use for hunting, recreation, logging and grazing.
IndependentTodd Achilles
Opposes selling or transferring Idaho's public lands, including to reduce the national debt; supports larger payments to rural counties under PILT, fully staffing land agencies, and keeping Idaho's Roadless Rule.
“I oppose selling our public lands to fund federal spending or reduce the national debt.”
IndependentNatalie Fleming
Supports balancing conservation with responsible use of public lands, keeping access for hunting, fishing and hiking, and restoring Idaho's watersheds, forests and grasslands.
LibertarianMatt Loesby
No published position found.
RepublicanJim Risch
Supports defending rangeland, Idaho's water and multiple use of federal land, and cutting taxes and regulations on farmers and ranchers.
IndependentTodd Achilles
No published position found.
IndependentNatalie Fleming
Supports shifting the food supply from mainly global to mainly local, regenerative and organic farming, fair markets and rural infrastructure for family farms and ranches.
LibertarianMatt Loesby
No published position found.
RepublicanJim Risch
Says protecting Second Amendment rights is a top priority and that he has led efforts in the Senate to defend gun owners' rights.
IndependentTodd Achilles
Says he would vote against new federal bans on firearms or magazines and a federal registry of gun owners; supports local gun-safety training and round-the-clock crisis mental health support.
IndependentNatalie Fleming
No published position found.
LibertarianMatt Loesby
No published position found.
RepublicanJim Risch
Opposes cutting funding for police and says he will defend law enforcement agencies.
IndependentTodd Achilles
No published position found.
IndependentNatalie Fleming
No published position found.
LibertarianMatt Loesby
Supports removing all substances from the federal controlled-substance schedules and redirecting the DEA to fight organized crime.
RepublicanJim Risch
No published position found.
IndependentTodd Achilles
Supports a constitutional amendment setting term limits (two Senate terms, three House terms, 18 years for Supreme Court justices), retirement at 72 for members of Congress, a ban on members trading stocks, and a five-year lobbying ban after leaving office.
IndependentNatalie Fleming
Supports overturning Citizens United, campaign finance reform and more transparency in government.
LibertarianMatt Loesby
No published position found.
RepublicanJim Risch
No published position found.
IndependentTodd Achilles
Supports Idaho's Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act ballot initiative and says he would align his Senate votes with its outcome.
IndependentNatalie Fleming
No published position found.
LibertarianMatt Loesby
Says he believes abortion is homicide but that it is outside the federal government's authority, and would oppose any national standard on it.
RepublicanJim Risch
Supports cutting taxes and reducing federal spending; cites his role in passing the 2017 tax cuts and, as governor, a 20% cut in Idaho property taxes.
IndependentTodd Achilles
No published position found.
IndependentNatalie Fleming
No published position found.
LibertarianMatt Loesby
No published position found.
RepublicanJim Risch
Supports expanding domestic energy production, including nuclear power; opposes breaching hydropower dams; says he worked with President Trump to stop the Lava Ridge wind project.
IndependentTodd Achilles
No published position found.
IndependentNatalie Fleming
No published position found.
LibertarianMatt Loesby
No published position found.
RepublicanJim Risch
No published position found.
IndependentTodd Achilles
Supports reducing the national debt by cutting waste, fraud and abuse, collecting revenue already owed, and closing tax loopholes used by corporations and the wealthy.
IndependentNatalie Fleming
No published position found.
LibertarianMatt Loesby
No published position found.
RepublicanJim Risch
No published position found.
IndependentTodd Achilles
Supports protecting health insurance tax credits, upfront itemized prices for procedures and drugs, banning drug-company kickbacks to doctors, and stronger antitrust enforcement against health care mergers.
IndependentNatalie Fleming
No published position found.
LibertarianMatt Loesby
No published position found.
RepublicanJim Risch
No published position found.
IndependentTodd Achilles
No published position found.
IndependentNatalie Fleming
Supports limits on corporate landlords and a proposed American Homeownership Restoration Act to return residential property to families rather than corporations, hedge funds and foreign investors.
LibertarianMatt Loesby
No published position found.
RepublicanJim Risch
No published position found.
IndependentTodd Achilles
No published position found.
IndependentNatalie Fleming
Supports treating personal data as private property, ending mass surveillance by corporations and government, requiring consent for data collection, a Digital Bill of Rights, regulating addictive design, and algorithmic transparency.
LibertarianMatt Loesby
No published position found.
RepublicanJim Risch
No published position found.
IndependentTodd Achilles
No published position found.
IndependentNatalie Fleming
No published position found.
LibertarianMatt Loesby
Supports bringing all U.S. troops home from outside U.S. territory unless Congress declares war, and ending all foreign military and economic aid, including to Ukraine and Israel.
RepublicanJim Risch
No published position found.
IndependentTodd Achilles
No published position found.
IndependentNatalie Fleming
No published position found.
LibertarianMatt Loesby
Supports auditing and then ending the Federal Reserve, cutting government budgets across the board, and blocking a central bank digital currency and new financial reporting rules.
RepublicanJim Risch
No published position found.
IndependentTodd Achilles
No published position found.
IndependentNatalie Fleming
No published position found.
LibertarianMatt Loesby
Says he would work to repeal the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and other civil rights laws of that era, saying people have a right to discriminate.
RepublicanJim Risch
No published position found.
IndependentTodd Achilles
No published position found.
IndependentNatalie Fleming
No published position found.
LibertarianMatt Loesby
Says he would work to dismantle what he calls the education industrial complex and to reduce government requirements and costs placed on parents educating their children.