But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Mark Baisley
No statement in Baisley's own words on U.S. weapons or money for the government of Israel was found, and none on aid to Palestinians. His campaign platform is healthcare, affordability, infrastructure and immigration (research).
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Deep Dive
Baisley is a Colorado state senator and the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate. He has never held federal office, so none of the congressional votes this site tracks are his. Nothing on his campaign site, in his Ballotpedia record, or in the measures he has sponsored in the state legislature touches what the United States sends.
One document with his name on it does exist: a letter to the president signed by state legislators from dozens of states. It is dated, and it is set out in full on his research page, along with the reason it is not on this card.
If you want his own position, you are better placed to get it than we are: ask Baisley directly and send us the reply. It goes on this page in his own words.
The record
• Signed the American Legislative Exchange Council's legislator letter to President Joe Biden of January 11, 2024, appearing on ALEC's published signature list as "CO Senator Mark Baisley". The letter urges the President to "strengthen and remain steadfast in your support for Israel", says the signers "oppose pressuring Israel to implement a premature ceasefire before achieving its security objectives", and calls on him to "maintain and increase your support for the State of Israel"; it was copied 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 released the letter with 120 signers from 38 states and later annotated the release "UPDATE 3/29: 171 legislators across 42 states", so the date on which Baisley himself signed is not established by the published record.
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.
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No recorded votes on the bills we track. We found nothing in their own words about Israel, Gaza or the war.
The money
Checked the five lobbying groups we track; no direct 2026 support found
Research log
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
- [Reaction window, 2024-01-11] Signed the American Legislative Exchange Council's legislator letter to President Biden, appearing on the published signature list as "CO Senator Mark Baisley". Writing as "the undersigned legislators, members of the American Legislative Exchange Council", the signers say "We urge you to strengthen and remain steadfast in your support for Israel", that they "oppose pressuring Israel to implement a premature ceasefire before achieving its security objectives", and "We call on you to maintain and increase your support for the State of Israel". Copies went to the Secretary of State and to the chairman and ranking member of both foreign-affairs committees. Not on the card summary: the letter is dated inside the reaction window, six days before the boundary. Two further limits: the roster grew after publication, from 120 signers at release to 171 by a March annotation and 238 signature lines when counted live, so the published record does not establish the date he himself signed; and a co-signed letter is not him speaking, so none of its wording is attributed to him personally.
- [Position, 2026] Nothing located. Checks: all twelve pages of his campaign site including the issues page and the press page; his Ballotpedia entity page; his Colorado Senate Republican caucus biography. Every one returns nothing on this subject. A further search in August 2026 added no statement of his own either.
- [Reported, unread] A candidate-profile page said to record his foreign-policy positions, https://www.ontheissues.org/2026_CO_Senate.htm, returns 403 to us.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
- Nothing located.
Characterization of the conflict
- Nothing located in his own words. The January 2024 letter's characterizations are the signers' collective wording.
Related rhetoric and lobbying
- [Earlier record, 2016] Colorado's HB16-1284 requires the Public Employees' Retirement Association to divest from companies with economic prohibitions against Israel. Signed in March 2016, before he entered the legislature; his name appears nowhere on it.
- [Position, 2024-02-26] HB24-1169, which would have repealed that law, was postponed indefinitely in House Finance after a motion to refer failed 1 to 10. House actions only; it never reached the Senate, so no Colorado senator voted on it.
- [Position, 2026] No endorsement from any tracked advocacy group, on either side. His campaign's endorsements page lists individual officeholders only, and the Republican Jewish Coalition's 2026 Senate endorsements name eight states, none of them Colorado.
- [Reported, 2026-06-17, unread] A public comment of his about commemorative resolutions sits at https://www.facebook.com/mark.baisley/posts/10240169205201164/. Facebook does not answer our requests, and the comment as described is about legislative practice rather than this subject.
Safety and antisemitism (context)
- [Position, 2025-04-25] Cosponsored Colorado Senate Joint Resolution 25-022 on Holocaust remembrance and education, which records rising antisemitic incidents in the United States and Colorado and calls for anti-bias and Holocaust education in schools. Tracked at BillTrack50. Context, and not an answer on what the United States sends.
Race and status context
- Colorado state senator since January 2023; Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate per Ballotpedia's primary page and his own campaign site. Colorado Newsline's Senate questionnaire went only to candidates in contested primaries, and his was uncontested, which is why there is no questionnaire answer to read.
- He did not serve in Congress during any of the tracked votes.
- Other candidates in this race have their own cards on this site.
Also in this race
- ✗Supports John Hickenlooper (Democrat)
- ?Mixed Bob Chew (Other)
- ✓Opposes Adam Withrow (Other)
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