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

Christopher Campbell

Other · U.S. Senate, Kentucky
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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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Two reviewers, reading the public record as a whole, agree: His campaign's own launch release calls what is happening in Gaza a genocide and pledges to cease the war funding, with nothing saying the weapons should keep flowing. Reviewed by hand on 2026-10-01. This candidate has no recorded tracked floor votes.

Campbell's Senate campaign launch says he would build a bloc to cease funding that fuels the war machine and stop exporting weapons, and would work on diplomatic solutions to end what it calls the genocide in Gaza. He runs on an anti-war platform.

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Deep Dive

Campbell is running for the U.S. Senate in Kentucky on the Kentucky Party line, on a platform he describes as anti-corruption, anti-war and pro-Kentucky. His position on U.S. weapons and money comes from his campaign launch announcement of November 5, 2025, which states: "As Senator, he will immediately get to work on diplomatic solutions to end the genocide in Gaza. He will build a bloc to cease funding that fuels the forever war machine and stop exporting weapons essential to national defense."

Two things about that sentence are worth stating plainly. It is written in the third person, so it is the campaign speaking rather than a quotation from him. And the closing phrase, "stop exporting weapons essential to national defense", is ambiguous as written: it can be read as stopping the export of such weapons, or as stopping exports other than those. It is reproduced here as published rather than tidied up.

At the Fancy Farm Picnic on August 1, 2026 he criticized establishment foreign policy, saying opponents want to send Kentuckians' children across the globe to die in wars for a foreign empire. A candidate position profile records that he supports a free Palestine, the release of all hostages, and an end to the violence.

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 2026-07-13) from the five lobbying groups we track; earlier cycles and earmarked donations not yet tracked.
Support-only OpenFEC data. Opposition independent expenditures are excluded.

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

  • 2025-11-05 [Current position; VERIFIED VERBATIM 2026-08-11]: Campaign launch announcement: "As Senator, he will immediately get to work on diplomatic solutions to end the genocide in Gaza. He will build a bloc to cease funding that fuels the forever war machine and stop exporting weapons essential to national defense."

⚠ Two qualifications, both material. (1) THIRD PERSON: the release speaks about him, not as him, so nothing here is published as his quotation. Under this site’s rule a campaign statement counts as the campaign’s statement, which is how the card frames it. (2) The phrase "stop exporting weapons essential to national defense" is genuinely ambiguous and is reproduced unaltered.

  • 2026-08-01 [Current position]: At the St. Jerome Fancy Farm Picnic he criticized establishment foreign policy, arguing opponents "want to send your kids across the globe to die in wars to a foreign empire". The WUKY report of the picnic does not name Campbell in the text we could read, so the wording is attributive and unverified.

Characterization of the conflict

  • 2025-11-05 [Current position; VERIFIED VERBATIM]: The same launch release characterizes the situation in Gaza as a "genocide" and commits him to diplomatic solutions to end it. Third person, as above.
  • Undated [candidate position profile; source page would not open]: He "unequivocally supports a free Palestine, the release of all hostages, and a real and lasting end to the violence that has plagued this region and claimed too many innocent lives". The source page is a localcandidates.org position page which sits behind a Vercel security checkpoint and returned no content on open, and which does not name him in the search notes. Recorded, not quoted, not on the card.

Rhetoric and lobbying

  • Nothing located beyond the anti-war framing of the launch and the Fancy Farm remarks.

Safety and antisemitism

  • Nothing located.

Identity and ballot status

What came back empty or unusable

  • No statement located specifically on U.S. aid to Palestinians, UNRWA or Gaza humanitarian funding, as distinct from the general call to cease war funding.
  • No first-person statement from him on this subject was located at all. Everything in scope comes from campaign copy written about him.

Also in this race

  1. ✗ Andy Barr (Republican)
  2. ✓ Charles Booker (Democrat)

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