Travis Ethan Allen (born September 14, 1973) is an American politician who served as a Republican member of the California State Assembly.

Allen was first elected in November 2012 to represent California's 72nd State Assembly district, which includes the cities of Fountain Valley, Los Alamitos, Seal Beach, and Westminster, most of Garden Grove, portions of Huntington Beach and of Santa Ana, and the unincorporated communities of Midway and Rossmoor.

Allen came in fourth place in California's open primary where the top two candidates get on the ballot in the November election.

[15] Allen is considered by many to be a controversial[16][17][18] politician and candidate for California governor due to his far-right populist politics, for being an outspoken proponent of Donald Trump,[7] for a sexual harassment allegation made against Allen by a former coworker (in which he was given a verbal warning but not disciplined for) in 2013,[19] and for making many disputed public statements.

[26] Allen used his efforts to repeal the SB 1 gas tax increase and his opposition to illegal immigration as key stances in his campaign.

Allen delivered his opening speech, stating that he wants to undo recent voter-enacted soft on crime laws[26][28] and promised to "get rid of the state-mandated Common Core [educational curriculum].

"[29] During his campaigning for California governor and subsequently, Allen has repeatedly made many disputed statements to the public and media.

[41] After losing in the primary elections, Allen didn't immediately endorse his Republican rival John Cox, but eventually decided to do so in July 2018.

[43] After Allen lost the Primary, his most recent campaign finance records showed $37,539 cash on hand and $17,866 in unpaid bills.

He was scored positively for voting yes on AB 1561,[66] a bill which proposed to "exempt from those taxes the gross receipts from the sale in this state of, and the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of, tampons, sanitary napkins, menstrual sponges, and menstrual cups";[67] and SB 999,[68] a bill intended to require that health insurance companies "cover up to a 12-month supply of FDA-approved, self-administered hormonal contraceptives".

[69] "The only major-party candidate to support the death penalty is Assemblyman Travis Allen, R-Huntington Beach (Orange County), who said it was 'absolutely necessary in cases where heinous crimes have been committed.'

"[70] He is also critical of the high yearly cost associated with preserving the lives of over 700[71] people who are on death row in California prisons.

[73][74] Allen wants to end Common Core's application at the state level, instead allowing local districts to set their own curricula.

"[75] Allen has stated that he opposes the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) of 1970 because it "strangles new housing development".

According to Allen, the tax (SB1) allocates money to "transportation-related projects", which he considers to be a vague description of where the funding could be spent and makes the point repeatedly during many of his public appearances.

[84] PolitiFact does agree with Allen's point that “the congested corridor program cannot fund general purpose freeway lanes, which are the main lanes used by most drivers,” because “the legislation does, in fact, prohibit spending this money on those.” However, Politifact gave Allen a “mostly false” rating because he “distorted the purpose of the tax,” which is to reduce “vehicle miles traveled, greenhouse gases, and air pollution," and to “reduce people's dependency on their cars.”[85][84][83] In 2015, the Firearms Policy Coalition gave Allen an "A" rating in recognition of his support for Second Amendment rights.

[95] He has vocally opposed the "Sanctuary State" bill speaking out against it publicly for the first time on February 1, 2017, on the John and Ken show on KFI AM 640.

[96] SB 54 passed the Senate and Assembly and was signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown on October 5, 2017, with an effective date of January 1, 2018.

[99][100] Allen made this a cornerstone of his failed 2018 campaign for California Governor, vowing "to reverse the illegal sanctuary state in [his] first 100 days in office.

[108] In August 2017, Judicial Watch on behalf of the Election Integrity Project(Election Integrity Project California, Inc.) sent a notice-of-violation letter to the state of California alleging that public records obtained on the Election Assistance Commission's 2016 Election Administration Voting Survey and through verbal accounts from various county agencies show eleven California counties - Imperial (102%), Lassen (102%), Los Angeles (112%), Monterey (104%), San Diego (138%), San Francisco (114%), San Mateo (111%), Santa Cruz (109%), Solano (111%), Stanislaus (102%), and Yolo (110%) - have more registered voters than voting-age citizens; and that Los Angeles County officials “informed us that the total number of registered voters now stands at a number that is a whopping 144% of the total number of resident citizens of voting age.” In December 2017 Judicial Watch filed a federal lawsuit against Los Angeles County and the State of California over their alleged failure to clean their voter rolls and to produce election-related records as required by the federal National Voter Registration Act (NVRA)(The United States Department of Justice).