But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check

Ryan Fazio

Republican · Governor, Connecticut
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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.

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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.

Fazio has not addressed U.S. weapons or money for the government of Israel, or U.S. aid to Palestinians. He has written at length about the conflict itself; everything we hold from him on it is dated, and it is set out on his research page.

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Deep Dive

Fazio is a Connecticut state senator and the Republican candidate for governor.

He has written about this war. A column of his in a local paper argues that there is no moral equivalency between Israel and Hamas, and that the defence of Israel is bound up with the safety of Jewish people everywhere. It is dated, and its date keeps it off this card; the column is linked in full on his research page so you can read it there.

What is not in it, and not anywhere else we found, is a position on what the United States sends. Nothing from him addresses weapons or military money for the government of Israel, and nothing addresses U.S. aid to Palestinians. A governor of Connecticut has no vote on either, so the silence is unsurprising, but it is still a silence.

If you want that answer, you are better placed to get it than we are: ask Fazio directly and send us the reply. It goes on this page in his own words.

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

  • Nothing located. A check recorded on 2026-07-18 searched his campaign site and news coverage and found no stance on weapons or money, and a further search in August 2026 found none either. His campaign site carries no foreign-policy content.

U.S. aid to Palestinians

  • Nothing located.

Characterization of the conflict

  • [Reaction window, 2023-10-20] **The unsourced claim in this record is now resolved.** An earlier version of this record carried a summary asserting that he had written an editorial defending Israel's right to self-defence, with no publication, date or address recorded anywhere, alongside a later check that found nothing. The column exists: it is "Never Again Still Means Never Again", published in the Greenwich Sentinel under his own byline as state senator, opened and read on 2026-08-18. In it he calls the attacks on Israeli civilians terrorism, writes that there is no moral equivalency between Israel and Hamas, and criticises what he describes as a radical-left worldview among some sympathisers of Hamas. Not on the card summary: the column is dated inside the reaction window.
  • [Reaction window, 2023-10-13] Attended a rally at Greenwich Town Hall, covered by Greenwich Free Press. Not on the card summary.
  • [Position, 2024-10-07] Took part in a memorial ceremony outside Greenwich Town Hall, covered by Patch, which names and photographs him but quotes no words from him. A later search attributes two sentences to him from that day; their only carrier is a Facebook post that does not answer us, and the Patch report does not contain them, so neither is quoted here.

Related rhetoric and lobbying

  • [Position, 2025-06-27, unread] A statement attributed to him about silence from political leaders on antisemitism sits on a Facebook page that returns one word of shell to us. Not quoted.

Safety and antisemitism (context)

  • [Position, 2024-08-14] With the state Senate Republican leader, condemned an antisemitic social media post by a Stamford official.
  • [Position, 2025-08-18] With his caucus, condemned a verbal antisemitic attack on two men in West Hartford.
  • [Position, 2026-02-27, unread] He is reported to have explained a vote against a Connecticut omnibus bill that contained a provision creating a state working group on antisemitism, saying he supported that provision but objected to the bill's passage without committee review. The carrier offered is another legislator's Facebook post, which does not answer us, so nothing is claimed.
  • All of this is context on domestic antisemitism, not an answer on what the United States sends.

Race and status context

Also in this race

  1. ? Ned Lamont (Democrat)

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