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

Eliott Rodriguez

Democrat · U.S. House, Florida District 27
✗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 Rodriguez taking a position on U.S. weapons or money for the government of Israel, or on U.S. aid to Palestinians. A former CBS Miami anchor, he runs on housing, insurance costs and Social Security.

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Deep Dive

Rodriguez is the Democratic nominee in Florida’s 27th District, a longtime South Florida television anchor who won his primary in August 2026.

His campaign site covers housing and insurance costs, Social Security and Medicare, and immigration, with no mention of Israel or Gaza. No interview, questionnaire answer or statement of his own was located on these questions. His years reporting the news are not statements of his own positions.

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

  • Nothing located.

Safety and antisemitism (context)

  • Nothing located.

Identity notes

  • Every page used here names him in full with his broadcasting career; nothing from other people named Rodriguez is used.

Where the absence was checked

  • [Read 2026-09-26] His campaign site: domestic priorities (housing and insurance costs, Social Security and Medicare, the economy, the environment, education, and immigration), nothing on the subject. His X account (@ERodforCongress), read the same day: the visible posts are about the race and costs, nothing on the subject.
  • [Consulted] His primary-win coverage at CBS Miami, his former newsroom reporting his win, WLRN and Florida Politics. Race facts only.

Race and status context

  • The Democratic nominee, facing the sitting member, whose card carries its own record. He won the August 18, 2026 primary: "Rodriguez defeated former prosecutor Robin Peguero, 54% to 46%, according to the latest election results", per WLRN. He has held no federal office, so there are no recorded votes on this card.
  • Per Wikipedia, he "was in journalism for almost five decades including 25 years at CBS News Miami", beginning in 1978, and his final broadcast was on December 19, 2025.

Also in this race

  1. ✗ María Elvira Salazar (Republican)

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