Kishore's political program includes the expropriation of the largest banks and corporations (to be placed under worker control), the end to the Israeli genocide of Palestinians, the immediate withdrawal of all US troops and military aid abroad, and the establishment of basic social rights of the working class (including the right to a livable income, leisure, and decent and affordable housing).
[11] As National Secretary of the SEP, Kishore has participated in and led many of the party's interventions and campaigns in the working class, including among autoworkers, train drivers, health care workers, and teachers.
He stated in a 2020 interview that the working class "must take political power in their own hands, seize the wealth hoarded by the rich and turn the giant banks and corporations into democratically-controlled utilities.
In accepting the SEP nomination, Kishore said "The two likely candidates of the Democrats and Republicans, President Biden and ex-President Trump, represent two factions of the capitalist corporate-financial oligarchy.
They speak for, and act on behalf of, the billionaires, the super-wealthy Wall Street shareholders, the corporate interests, and the military-industrial complex and their program of war, dictatorship, inequality and poverty.
As part of an international tour in his presidential campaign, Kishore delivered a speech in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on 10 December 2023 on the subject of Israel's war in Gaza.
Kishore termed the war waged by Israel a "genocide," citing a contemporary estimate of the death toll in Gaza as 17,000 people, including women and children.
"[30] Kishore argued that "unending war... has not ushered in an 'American century,' but a series of ever more extreme economic and political crises," referring to January 6 as an "attempted fascistic coup, spearheaded by the former president Trump."
"[31] Kishore published a statement denouncing what he termed an "anti-immigrant campaign spearheaded by Trump and his fascistic allies, with the complicity of Biden, Harris and the Democratic Party."
Kishore advocated for the "dismantling of ICE, CBP, DHS—the entire border police state apparatus," and called for workers to put "an end to the nation-state system.
"[33] Kishore's essay Race, Class, and Socialism appeared alongside interviews with historians Gordon Wood and James McPherson in a volume critiquing the New York Times' 1619 project from a socialist perspective.
He wrote, "the fundamental fraud promoted by Sanders, along with individuals such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is that the Democratic Party can be pushed to the left and made a force for progressive change.
"[37] Kishore has expressed opposition to what he describes as the policy of "forever Covid," in which SARS-CoV-2 has been allowed to spread freely amid the collapse of public health measures.
"[38] The Kishore campaign team uses N-95 masks, far-UV disinfection devices, and HEPA filters at their public meetings, to protect attendees from COVID-19 and other airborne pathogens.
"[39][40] In 2020, Kishore filed lawsuits in Michigan and California alleging that requirements to gather 200,000 signatures for ballot access was "effectively impossible" given the "ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic and the state's countermeasures to it.
His campaign achieved write-in status in the District of Columbia, Alabama, Arkansas, Iowa, Illinois's Cook County, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, New Hampshire, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and Wyoming.
His campaign has argued that "third-party candidates face substantial barriers, including the requirement to collect hundreds of thousands of signatures just to appear on the ballot, as well as numerous legal and bureaucratic hurdles placed by the two capitalist parties.