But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Phil Weiser
Democrat · Governor, Colorado
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How this mark works
We track key votes on sending U.S. weapons and money to the government of Israel. A check means every tracked vote they cast came down against sending more, on the side of peace and de-escalation. A question mark means a mixed record: they sided with sending up to half of the time. An X means they voted to send more weapons and money in over half of their tracked votes, even as the way those weapons and dollars were being used became more and more obvious. At exactly half, money this election cycle from a lobbying group we track, or an endorsement from a group that backs sending weapons, makes it an X. Only votes actually cast are counted. Where a candidate has no recorded votes on these bills, the mark comes instead from a reviewed reading of their public record (money from the lobbying groups we track, endorsements, and their own words since January 26, 2024). There an X also covers fully backing the conduct of the war by the government of Israel without significant reservations, and a question mark also covers speaking about Israel without saying clearly where they stand on U.S. weapons and funding. A dash means No Position Found: we found nothing in their own words about Israel, Gaza or the war.
Two reviewers, reading the public record as a whole, agree: In May 2024 remarks he says being a Zionist means you believe "that Israel has a right to exist" but not that you "necessarily support all of the actions or policies of the current government", which points both ways. Reviewed by hand on 2026-10-09. This candidate has no recorded tracked floor votes.
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Weiser is the Attorney General of Colorado and the Democratic nominee for governor. Foreign military policy is not the office's lane, so what he has said matters more here than what he has voted on, because he has never had a vote on it.
His fullest statement is a set of prepared remarks he published on the Attorney General's own site in May 2024, and it draws lines carefully. He wrote: "For those willing to listen, it is not hard to explain that being a Zionist means you believe that Israel has a right to exist. It does not mean that you necessarily support all of the actions or policies of the current government. It does not mean that Israel has not made mistakes in the war against Hamas. And, most importantly, it does not mean that Jews don't care about the deaths of Palestinians during this war." In the same remarks: "At my family seder this year, we recognized the suffering and deaths of Palestinians during this war." The same document treats the chants "kill all Zionists" and "go back to Poland" as antisemitic rhetoric rather than criticism of Israeli policy, and calls for the release of the hostages.
On what the United States sends there is nothing. His campaign's fifteen issue areas, his own official remarks, and a topic-by-topic comparison of the two primary candidates all pass over U.S. weapons, arms transfers, aid packages, conditions on transfers and funding for the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, and nothing was found on Colorado's own statute requiring the state pension fund to divest from companies that boycott Israel. A reader in Colorado is better placed to close that gap than we are. Ask him what he would say about U.S. weapons and money for the government of Israel, and send us the reply; it will go on his research page in his own words.
In their words
“For those willing to listen, it is not hard to explain that being a Zionist means you believe that Israel has a right to exist. It does not mean that you necessarily support all of the actions or policies of the current government.”
The notes behind this card: what we looked at, what we found, and where each item came from.
U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel
Nothing located. This is a finding, not an absence of work. The record already carried a dated source from 2026-07-28 recording that his campaign issues page lists fifteen issue areas and none of them is foreign policy; that his campaign home and endorsements pages, his own official Celebrate Israel remarks, the 2024 Jewish Insider interview, the 2026 JNS interview and the reports of his primary win carry no position on U.S. weapons or funding; and that a topic-by-topic Colorado Sun comparison of the two primary candidates covering taxes, labor, healthcare, energy, emissions, water and agriculture has no Israel, Gaza or foreign-policy topic in it at all. Seven named news searches were run for a position and returned none, including one specifically for Colorado's anti-boycott pension-divestment statute.
A further search added no weapons or money position either. Outlets describe him in general terms as a supporter of Israel; general description is not a position on transfers.
As attorney general he has no vote on any of this site's tracked bills, and none is claimed for him.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
Nothing located on humanitarian funding, the aid pipeline, or the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees. His May 2024 remarks acknowledge Palestinian deaths but say nothing about American aid.
Characterization of the conflict
[Position, 2024-05-05] Prepared remarks, JEWISHcolorado Celebrate Israel event, on the Attorney General's own site, opened and confirmed word for word. Quoted: "For those willing to listen, it is not hard to explain that being a Zionist means you believe that Israel has a right to exist. It does not mean that you necessarily support all of the actions or policies of the current government. It does not mean that Israel has not made mistakes in the war against Hamas. And, most importantly, it does not mean that Jews don't care about the deaths of Palestinians during this war." And: "At my family seder this year, we recognized the suffering and deaths of Palestinians during this war." The remarks also compare the moment to 1948, call for the hostages to be freed, and treat the chants "kill all Zionists" and "go back to Poland" as antisemitic rhetoric. The passages placing the attack that started the war are inside the reaction window by subject and are not used on the card.
[Position, 2025-11-20] At an event hosted by the Jewish Democratic Council of America he said attacks on Jews are wrong without qualification, per JNS.
[Reaction window, 2023-10-08] A social-media post expressing grief and standing with Israel. Not on the card summary. No page-level address resolved for the post itself.
[Reaction window, 2023-10-10] Spoke at a community vigil at a Denver synagogue, invoking his family's Holocaust history, reported on a colleague's House site. Not on the card summary.
Related rhetoric and lobbying
[Position, 2026-04-06] He took part in a gubernatorial candidate forum organized by Colorado Muslim Vote. No source for this came back resolved, so it is recorded here as unverified and is not on the card.
[Position, 2026-08-05] Campaign imagery from opponents depicted him with horns and he called it an old antisemitic trope. The carrier is Forward, which did not open on one attempt and opened on another. About the campaign, not about weapons or aid.
Safety and antisemitism (context)
[Position, 2025-06-02] Statement on the Boulder firebombing, on his campaign site, opened and read in full (801 words): he calls it a hate crime and "an antisemitic attack on fellow Jews who were peacefully calling out the injustice of the continued captivity and inhumane treatment of hostages". The statement also carries Colorado incident figures.
[Position, 2026-07-02] Jewish Insider on his criticism of a rival candidate for declining to call the Boulder attack antisemitic.
[Unconfirmed] A Jerusalem Post item and a CBS Colorado report were listed by our search. Both open to a desktop browser. Neither carries a weapons or funding position from him.
Race and status context
He is the Democratic nominee for governor and the sitting Attorney General. Both facts are on the record and neither is a position on this question.
Consulted
His campaign issues, home and endorsements pages; his own official remarks on the Attorney General's site; the Colorado Sun's primary comparison; Jewish Insider, JNS, JTA, Forward, the Jerusalem Post and CBS Colorado; a YouTube item that does not name him in any recoverable text.
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