Mike Cargile

Mike Cargile says he is a small businessman.¹ He says he has worked as a writer, director, producer, and marketing director, and served as an Army quartermaster officer.² His campaign says he is a deacon at his church and co-founded the San Bernardino County Patriots and the Tri-County Sheriff's Forum.²

Cargile says human life begins at conception, but he supports abortion exceptions for rape, incest, and the mother's life.³ He says he opposes withholding medical help for infants who survive an abortion.³ He proposes shrinking the size of the federal government.⁴ He says he stands against boys in girls' sports and promises to protect gas stoves, gasoline for cars, and food prices.⁴

In 2022 he told Grid News that the United States is run by "a satanic cabal of human traffickers and pedophile predators" working toward a one-world order, and that he would "do everything within my power to oppose this."⁵ Los Angeles Magazine reported in 2020 that his social media included memes targeting Black people, immigrants, Muslims, and LGBTQ people, and that he used the QAnon hashtag #WWG1WGA.⁶