Victor Mellor

Victor Mellor served in the U.S. Marine Corps. He earned a high school diploma from Woonsocket High School. His career experience includes being a business owner and president.[1][2]

Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

As a conservative Republican, I believe in continuing to secure and seal the border, upholding informed patient control, protecting parental authority over their children’s physical and mental health, and ensuring the Second Amendment remains strong so every law-abiding citizen can access and use firearms.

For far too long we have watched manufacturing jobs shipped overseas—often to our adversaries. This must stop. The real path to affordability is bringing those jobs back to the United States. High-paying American manufacturing jobs will give our graduates real opportunity while strengthening our supply chains and our national economy.

I also support an energy policy that restores reliable fossil fuel production and use. Renewable sources are intermittent and unreliable. They are extremely expensive and destructive to natural environments. In Rhode Island they threaten the health of our tourism and fishing industries while driving electric and heating bills to crushing levels. Continuing this flawed approa

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

Creating and building a strong jobs climate is essential. Rhode Island’s economy is currently hostile to businesses, and we rank among the states with the highest rates of graduate outmigration because young people must leave to find good-paying jobs. I will use my office to work with state and local officials to reverse this trend. Rhode Island has the resources and potential to build a strong boat-building sector and reignite manufacturing across the state. If we want a state where we no longer struggle with affordability, growing good paying jobs is the answer.Ensuring parental control over their children’s physical and mental health is fundamental. The COVID pandemic exposed the dangerous overreach of schools into decisions that rightfully belong to parents, not education bureaucrats. The transgender movement has further revealed the serious harm being done to vulnerable children when schools withhold information from parents or deliberately conceal decisions—often harmful ones—from the very people who should be guiding their children’s care. Parents must remain the supreme authority in their child’s life.Reducing the cost of healthcare and improving its quality is a top priority. As a founding member of GAHA, the Great American Health Alliance, I have worked with medical professionals to develop strategies that lower the cost of medical care. The President has already issued executive orders establishing Most Favored Nation status for drug purchases and requiring billing transparency for all healthcare facilities. I will work to codify these executive orders into law. I will also partner with the Secretary of Health to use my office to promote healthier food and lifestyles across the United States.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

I am passionate about creating jobs in Rhode Island. I am constantly looking for ways to improve our state’s jobs climate, so it is no longer hostile to business creation. We must lower the barriers to growth: make electricity more affordable by building a new natural gas pipeline and ending expensive, destructive solar and wind projects; eliminate useless regulations; and work with Congress to expand shipbuilding.

Note: Mellor submitted the above survey responses to [the profile publisher] on August 9, 2026.

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August 6 submission

Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I believe public service is about putting people first, solving problems, and leaving your community stronger than you found it. That belief was shaped during my time as a United States Marine Corps Sergeant, where I served as an explosives detection dog handler stationed in Norfolk, Virginia. I was honored to complete repeated Temporary Additional Duty assignments with HMX-1, the Presidential Helicopter Squadron, and FAST Company, the Fleet Anti-Terrorism Security Team. Those experiences taught me the importance of discipline, accountability, and leading by example.

After my military service, I built a career in business, helping companies grow and create opportunities. I've seen firsthand what it takes to build something from the ground up, meet a payroll, and overcome challenges through hard work and determination. Those experiences are why I believe government should empower people, not stand in their way.

I'm running for Congress because Rhode Island deserves leadership that fights for working families, supports our veterans, backs law enforcement, protects our constitutional freedoms, and creates an economy where businesses can thrive and young people can build their future here at home. I'll bring the same integrity, commitment, and mission-focused leadership that guided me in the Marine Corps to serving the people of Rhode Island in Washington.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

Safety for the residents of RI, whether through the empowerment of first responders or the empowerment of their constitutional rights.Creating Jobs in Rhode Island by engaging in commerce with different organizations, both foreign and domestic.Affordability for the residents of Rhode Island. People should be able to afford to live here while saving for the future.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Providing jobs and opportunities to the people of Rhode Island

What organizations or individuals have endorsed your campaign?

Veterans for America First

Rhode Island Fraternal Order of Police