Mark Baisley

Mark Baisley (R) is a Colorado state senator for Senate District 4 and the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat John Hickenlooper, on the ballot in the general election of November 3, 2026; he has never held federal office, so the congressional votes this site tracks on weapons and money for the government of Israel all fall outside his service. His one act within that scope is a signature on a letter to President Joe Biden dated January 11, 2024 and circulated by the American Legislative Exchange Council, on whose published signature list he appears as "CO Senator Mark Baisley". Writing as "the undersigned legislators, members of the American Legislative Exchange Council", the signers tell the President "We urge you to strengthen and remain steadfast in your support for Israel", state "We oppose pressuring Israel to implement a premature ceasefire before achieving its security objectives", and close "We call on you to maintain and increase your support for the State of Israel"; copies went to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and to the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. ALEC's press release the same day described the letter as signed by 120 officials from 38 states and was later annotated "UPDATE 3/29: 171 legislators across 42 states", so the published record does not establish on which date Baisley himself signed. His state legislative record contains no measure on the subject: Colorado's anti-boycott statute HB16-1284, which requires the Public Employees' Retirement Association to divest from companies with economic prohibitions against Israel, was enacted in 2016, before he entered the legislature, and the only bill since then to repeal it, Rep. Elisabeth Epps's HB24-1169, was postponed indefinitely by the House Finance Committee on February 26, 2024 after a motion to refer it failed 1-10, so it never reached the Senate and Baisley neither sponsored nor voted on it. His 2026 campaign has said nothing on the subject: a sweep of all twelve pages his campaign site publishes, including all four of its posts, sets out healthcare, affordability, infrastructure and immigration and contains no reference to Israel, Gaza, foreign aid or arms sales. He completed no candidate questionnaire that reaches the issue — Ballotpedia records that he did not complete its Candidate Connection survey in 2026, 2022 or 2020, and Colorado Newsline sent its 2026 U.S. Senate questionnaire only to candidates in contested primaries. No verbatim statement in his own words on U.S. weapons or money for the government of Israel was found; the January 2024 letter is a co-signed document.