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

Leela Gray

Democrat · U.S. House, Florida District 13
✗From an endorsement
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. Endorsed by DMFI PAC.

Nothing located has Gray taking a position on U.S. weapons or money for the government of Israel, or on U.S. aid to Palestinians. Her campaign site does not reach foreign policy, and her stated pledge is to reject corporate political action committee money generally.

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Deep Dive

Gray is the Democratic nominee in Florida’s 13th District, a retired Army brigadier general and lawyer who won her primary in August 2026.

Her own material was read: her campaign site and issues page carry opportunity-focused domestic priorities with no occurrence of Israel or Gaza. Her funding pledge rejects corporate political action committee money without naming any organization. A social media comment attributed to unnamed constituents claimed she said in conversation that she does not accept money from one pro-Israel committee; that rests on other people’s accounts on pages that do not open, and nothing is claimed from it.

What was checked to reach that conclusion is listed on this card's research page. You are better placed to get her position than we are. Ask Gray directly, or at a candidate forum, and send us the reply: it goes on this page in her own words.

The money

Checked the five lobbying groups we track; no direct 2026 support found

2026 support from the five lobbying groups we track
Nothing recorded (as of 2026-09-27) from the five lobbying groups we track; earlier cycles and earmarked donations not yet tracked.
Support-only OpenFEC data. Opposition independent expenditures are excluded.
Endorsed by DMFI PAC
DMFI PACDemocratic Majority for Israel's PAC; calls itself the home for pro-Israel Democrats and backs Democratic candidates who support a strong U.S. alliance with the government of Israel.These endorsements come from groups that back sending U.S. weapons and funding to the government of Israel.

In their words

Endorsements

DMFI PAC (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

  • Nothing located.

U.S. aid to Palestinians

  • Nothing located.

Characterization of the conflict

  • Nothing located.

Related rhetoric and lobbying

  • Her pledge to reject corporate political action committee money is general, per primary coverage, and names no organization.
  • [Reported, unopenable third-party carriers] A July 2026 social media comment is reported claiming she told constituents she does not accept money from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. The addresses offered are a Minnesota member’s page, a private individual’s page and a media outlet’s page, none of which is hers and none of which opens. Offered-and-unsupported; nothing claimed. Even confirmed, a funding pledge is never written as a weapons or funding position.

Safety and antisemitism (context)

  • Nothing located.

Identity notes

  • Two other candidates in our records share her surname, including a heavily covered Wyoming official. No material from either appeared in our search, and every carrier here names her in full.

Where the absence was checked

Race and status context

  • The Democratic nominee in one of this cycle’s priority districts, facing the sitting member, whose card carries its own record. She has held no federal office, so there are no recorded votes on this card.

Also in this race

  1. ✗ Anna Paulina Luna (Republican)
  2. – Tony D'Arrigo (Other)

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