Candidate · November 3, 2026
Matt Loesby
On the ballot for U.S. Senate · Idaho
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§1On the ballot
Why this matters: This is exactly how the candidate appears on your ballot, from the state's official candidate list.
| Office | U.S. Senate · Idaho1 |
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| Party on the ballot | Libertarian1 |
| Status | Challenger |
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§2Who they are
Why this matters: Background and experience help you judge how someone might do the job. These come from public records and the candidate's own materials.
Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.
Loesby grew up in a suburb south of Denver, Colorado, left for college in another state in 2010 and worked there in video game development until 2018.2 He bought a house in Idaho's Treasure Valley in 2020.2 He volunteers for his church, is developing a video game and does administrative work and activism for the Libertarian Party of Idaho.2
Why they say they're running
His campaign website says he is running to give Idaho voters a Libertarian alternative to the Republican Party and to block what he describes as federal government intrusions on people's rights.2
Websites and accounts
- Campaign websiteloesby.us3
- X (Twitter)twitter.com/LoesbyForIdaho3
- Facebookfacebook.com/profile.php?id=615577635986813
§3What they've said on the issues
Why this matters: These are positions the candidate has stated publicly — on their campaign website or in public statements — summarized in plain words with a link to where they said it. Issues they haven't spoken about publicly are left out.
Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.
Each issue has its own range of views. A position is marked on that range only when the candidate's own statement clearly matches one option; there is no overall left–right score.
Immigration
His campaign website says the US should admit only immigrants invited by US citizen landowners who take financial responsibility for them.4
His campaign website says any immigrant who was not invited should be deported to the country they most recently lived in.4
- Abolish ICE and move any remaining enforcement work to other agencies
- Deport only people convicted of serious crimes or who threaten national security
- Focus on people with criminal records and recent border crossers
- Deport as many people here without legal permission as possible, with or without criminal records
His campaign website says people seeking asylum should be sent to the first safe country they passed through after leaving home.4
His campaign website says he would work to end birthright citizenship by changing naturalization law.4
Economy, Jobs and Trade
His campaign website says he would push to repeal minimum wage laws.4
His campaign website says he would push to audit and then end the Federal Reserve.4
Health Care
His campaign website says he would push to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which he says raises the cost of hiring workers.4
His campaign website says he believes gender dysphoria should not be treated with hormones or surgery, and that the federal government should not set a standard on the issue.4
Taxes and Budget
His campaign website says he would fight to cut federal budgets across the board rather than only slowing their growth.4
- Increase overall federal spending
- Hold overall spending near current levels
- Cut overall federal spending
- Cut spending enough to balance the budget within 10 years
Foreign Policy and Defense
His campaign website says no US troops should be deployed outside US territory unless Congress declares war.4
- Let the president order military action without needing Congress's approval
- Let the president act first, but enforce the 60-day limit and end any action Congress doesn't approve
- Require Congress to approve military action in advance, except to defend against an attack
His campaign website says the US should send no more money or weapons to Ukraine.4
- Send more US-funded weapons and money to Ukraine
- Keep supplying weapons, with European allies paying for most of them
- End US weapons and aid for Ukraine, including weapons paid for by allies
His campaign website says the US should send no more money or weapons to Israel.4
- Increase military aid to Israel
- Keep military aid at current levels, without new conditions
- Attach conditions, such as limits on how US weapons are used and requirements to let humanitarian aid into Gaza
- Reduce or end military aid to Israel
His campaign website says the US should give no foreign aid to any country.4
- Restore or increase foreign aid, including programs cut in 2025
- Keep foreign aid near its current level
- Cut foreign aid further or end most of it
Veterans
His campaign website says he would push to abolish the VA and give its budget to veterans as direct payments to spend on the medical and psychiatric care they choose.4
Crime, Policing and Prisons
His campaign website says he would push to remove all drugs from the federal controlled substances schedules and to end the drug war.4
Housing
His campaign website says people camping in public places not meant for it should be detained and offered rehab, a shelter that will take them, or a trip to a city that will allow them to stay.4
- Provide permanent housing first, without requiring treatment or sobriety beforehand
- Provide housing that comes with requirements, such as treatment, sobriety or work
- Enforce bans on public camping and move people into shelters or treatment, including court-ordered treatment for some
Education
His campaign website says he would work to dismantle government-run education, which he calls the education industrial complex.4
Abortion and Reproductive Health
His campaign website says he believes abortion is homicide.4
His campaign website says abortion is not a matter for the federal government and that he would oppose any national standard on it.4
- A national law making abortion legal in every state, at least until viability, as under Roe v. Wade
- Leave abortion law to each state
- A national law limiting abortion (for example, after 15 weeks of pregnancy)
Family and Social Policy
His campaign website says marriage is a covenant between a man, a woman and God, and that he would push to undo the Supreme Court's Obergefell v. Hodges decision and leave the question to states and localities.4
- Keep same-sex marriage legal in every state
- Let each state decide whether to allow it
- Recognize only marriages between one man and one woman
Guns
His campaign website says he opposes all efforts to restrict owning or making any weapon.4
- Ban the sale of these rifles
- Keep sales legal, with added limits such as a minimum buying age of 21
- No bans or added limits on these rifles
§4Financial disclosures
Why this matters: Federal candidates and members of Congress must report their assets, income, debts and outside jobs, and members must report stock trades. These filings show possible conflicts of interest.
Senate candidates and senators file with the Senate's own disclosure system, which asks each visitor to agree to its terms before searching, so we can't link straight to a filing. You can search for Matt Loesby at efdsearch.senate.gov5.