But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Jeff Crank
- Backed with $15K by PACs we track that support U.S. weapons funding for the government of Israel (lifetime)
- Endorsed by AIPAC
- Sits on House Armed Services
Crank said he would continue his predecessor’s advocacy: "Those are big shoes to fill, when it comes to the State of Israel and our support for it", saying the U.S. should place no limits on Israel’s military response. His two votes oppose both amendments to cut aid to Israel.
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Deep Dive
Crank represents Colorado’s 5th District (Colorado Springs) and is the sitting member, first elected in 2024 and a House Armed Services Committee member.
He set out his frame in a January 2025 interview: succeeding Representative Lamborn, a longtime advocate of joint defense funding, he said "Those are big shoes to fill, when it comes to the State of Israel and our support for it", and, in the interview’s account, that the United States should not press Israel into agreements with Hamas nor "place any limits or pressure on Israel to restrain its military response" to the October 7 attacks. In a 2025 group interview he was among Republicans backing the administration’s Israel policy, pointing to Democrats as increasingly anti-Israel.
His recorded votes on the tracked bills appear as badges on this card: he took office after the 2024 packages, and both recorded votes are against amendments to cut aid to Israel. A reported co-sponsorship of a bill expediting arms to Abraham Accords partners rides on a source that does not name him and is excluded.
Nothing located has him addressing U.S. humanitarian aid for Palestinians at any date. His comments on the 2025-26 strikes on Iran are on the research page.
The record
Supported sending weapons or funding in 2 of 2 tracked votes
House Committee on Armed Services
• Vote record imported from official House Clerk roll calls for H.R. 6126, H.R. 8034, and H.R. 8369. Other position fields remain under investigation.
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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Voted to send weapons or funding in more than half of their recorded tracked votes. (Supported sending weapons or funding in 2 of 2 tracked votes.)
The money
$15K in lifetime support from the five lobbying groups we track
In their words
AIPAC (2026 endorsement)
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
- His recorded votes appear as badges on this card: No on the FY26 amendment striking Israeli Cooperative Programs funding, No on the 2026 Massie amendment. He took office in January 2025.
- [Position, 2025-01-28] The Jewish Insider interview, verified: the big-shoes quote (his words) and the no-limits-or-pressure position (the interview’s reported account, attributed as such). His "no greater ally and friend" framing is on the same page.
- [Excluded, wrong-source] A July 2025 co-sponsorship of the Abraham Accords arms-expediting bill is cited to a Jewish Insider piece that does not name him (our research’s own name check recorded false). Offered-and-unsupported; nothing claimed. The same source failed the same way on another candidate’s record in this panel.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
- Nothing located.
Characterization of the conflict
- [Position, 2025-06-23] "The strikes were successful", his comments on U.S. strikes on Iran, per KRDO. Iran material stays off the front of the card.
- [Position, 2026-07, uncorroborated] Support for NDAA provisions on U.S.-Israel cooperation, per our research without an external source; nothing claimed beyond his recorded votes.
Related rhetoric and lobbying
- [Position, 2025] The Washington Reporter group interview, verified: he is named among Republicans standing "absolutely" with the administration on Israel and pointing to Democrats as increasingly anti-Israel.
- Tracked funding totals appear as a badge on this card.
Safety and antisemitism (context)
- [Position, 2025-06-01, source we could not open] A Boulder-attack reaction ("Absolutely horrific...") on his own account. The address our research recorded for it is not a working one, so we are not linking it. A related quote turned out to sit on Senator Booker’s account rather than his, and is not used. His co-sponsorship of the Boulder resolution appears through colleagues’ releases. Not yet confirmed.
- [Position, 2026-03-12, unopenable source] A condemnation of a Michigan antisemitic attack, own-account capture; same treatment.
Race and status context
- Sitting member, nominated. His Democratic challenger’s card carries its own record.
Also in this race
- –No Position Found Jessica Killin (Democrat)
- ✓Opposes Mark Elworth Jr. (Libertarian)
- ?Mixed Christopher Mitchell (Other)
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