It appears West has also already chosen a running mate: Michelle Tidball of Cody, Wyoming. Tidball, a self-described “biblical life coach,” runs an online Bible study which operates under Abundant Ministries, a local church in Cody. Formerly, Tidball was the executive director of Bright Futures Mentoring Program. Not much else is known about Tidball. At the time of this writing, her site, Yarash.org, is under construction.
While West admits he is a political novice and has a lot of research to do in order to form opinions on public policy such as taxes, one thing is pretty clear: He is pro-life. “I am pro-life because I’m following the word of the Bible,” he says.
He also took issue with Planned Parenthood during the interview, accusing the organization of partaking in “the Devil’s work.” “Planned Parenthoods have been placed inside cities by white supremacists to do the Devil’s work,” he said, although he didn’t expand on that thought. The thought isn’t one that only West believes, though, it sounds similar to things Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has said about abortion and its history of eugenics.
West also expressed his hesitation to embrace a coronavirus vaccine. He appears to subscribe to a fringe theory that equates vaccines and other things with the mark of the beast mentioned in Revelation:
It’s so many of our children that are being vaccinated and paralyzed. . . . So when they say the way we’re going to fix Covid is with a vaccine, I’m extremely cautious. That’s the mark of the beast. They want to put chips inside of us, they want to do all kinds of things, to make it where we can’t cross the gates of heaven. I’m sorry when I say they, the humans that have the Devil inside them. And the sad thing is that, the saddest thing is that we all won’t make it to heaven, that there’ll be some of us that do not make it. Next question.
Whether he wins the election in 2020 is up to God, West believes. “God appoints the president. If I win in 2020 then it was God’s appointment. If I win in 2024 then that was God’s appointment.”