Pro-Life

His campaign website says abortion should be treated as murder, that legal personhood begins at fertilization, and that as governor he would order abortion facilities to stay closed.³

His campaign website says any ban on surgical abortion should also ban birth control pills and morning-after pills, and opposes the freezing and discarding of embryos in IVF.³

1. Guarantee access to both in federal law, including insurance coverage for IVF
2. Lower IVF costs, such as through cheaper drugs and optional employer benefits, without a new federal right or coverage requirement
3. No new federal law; leave current federal and state rules in place
4. Let states limit some methods, such as by giving embryos legal protection

His campaign website says Idaho should make transition-related hormones and surgery illegal at any age.³

1. Ban these treatments for minors
2. Allow some with limits, such as minimum ages, waiting periods or no surgery
3. No legal limits; leave decisions to patients, parents and doctors

His campaign website says no one should be required to be vaccinated for school or any other reason, and that he opposes childhood vaccination.³

1. End school vaccine requirements
2. Keep requirements but allow religious or personal-belief exemptions
3. Keep requirements with medical exemptions only

His campaign website says he would never issue mask, vaccine or other health mandates, and that a governor's emergency powers should last about 14 days before the legislature takes over.³

1. Limit emergency powers and bar governments and employers from requiring workers to get vaccinated
2. Allow emergency measures, but end them after a set time unless lawmakers vote to extend them
3. Keep officials' power to declare emergencies and require vaccines for some workers, such as in health care

His campaign website says transgender girls should never compete in girls' athletics.³

1. Require teams based on sex at birth
2. Let each state decide
3. Let schools or sports organizations set rules case by case
4. Teams based on gender identity

His campaign website says state governments should not sponsor public education and calls for reduced education spending.^3,4

1. Increase state funding for public schools
2. Hold funding near current levels
3. Reduce state school funding or slow its growth

His campaign website says same-sex marriage should not be accepted and that Idaho should ignore the 2022 federal law recognizing it.³

1. Keep same-sex marriage legal in every state
2. Let each state decide whether to allow it
3. Recognize only marriages between one man and one woman

His campaign website says he supports repealing existing gun laws and relying on juries to decide cases of individual misuse of firearms.³

1. Ban the sale of these rifles
2. Keep sales legal, with added limits such as a minimum buying age of 21
3. No bans or added limits on these rifles

His campaign website says that as governor he would veto all bills that expand government, and that spending on education, welfare, health and recreation should be cut along with taxes, leading to the phasing out of those state functions.³

1. Cut state spending and return the savings through tax cuts or rebates
2. Hold spending near current levels
3. Spend more on state services such as schools and health care

His campaign website says tax cuts should start with eliminating the sales tax.³

His campaign website says Idaho should eliminate its income tax after first eliminating the sales tax.³

1. Add or raise taxes on the highest incomes (for example, a tax on income over $1 million)
2. Keep current rates
3. Cut rates or move to a single flat rate
4. Phase out the state income tax

His campaign website says Idaho should eventually eliminate property taxes, after eliminating sales and income taxes.³

His campaign website says the Constitution does not authorize Congress to own land within states and that the Idaho Legislature should authorize state ownership of those lands in Idaho.³

1. Transfer large areas of federal land to the states
2. Sell limited amounts of federal land, such as near towns for housing
3. Keep federal lands in federal ownership

His campaign website says he opposes recreational marijuana.³

1. Keep recreational use against the law
2. Reduce penalties for having small amounts, without legal sales
3. Let each state decide, with no federal penalties where a state allows it
4. Make it legal for adults to buy and use

His campaign website says the federal government should stop sending refugees to Idaho who have not been vetted, and that Idaho should vet all refugees headed to the state.³

His campaign website says children born in the US should be citizens only if their parents are US citizens.⁵

His campaign website says a union with majority support should not be allowed to bargain for all government employees.³

1. Limit or end union bargaining for most public employees
2. Keep current rules, including the 2025 order's limits at federal agencies
3. Restore bargaining rights at the federal agencies the 2025 order excluded, as the House-passed Protect America's Workforce Act would
4. Guarantee bargaining rights for public employees nationwide

His campaign website says a strict reading of the Constitution would allow only gold and silver coin as money, calls for an audit of the Federal Reserve and says the Federal Reserve should be abolished.^5,6

His campaign website says he opposes nuclear power because of radioactive waste.⁶

1. Build no new reactors and rely on other energy sources
2. Support new reactors under the current licensing process
3. Speed up licensing further and expand federal support to build many new reactors

His campaign website says presidents have waged wars that Congress never declared, which it calls unconstitutional, and faults Congress for allowing them.⁵

1. Let the president order military action without needing Congress's approval
2. Let the president act first, but enforce the 60-day limit and end any action Congress doesn't approve
3. Require Congress to approve military action in advance, except to defend against an attack