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

Robin Ficker

Republican · U.S. House, Maryland District 6
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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 2024 voter-guide answers support continuing U.S. weapons and aid to Israel and oppose conditions; the 2016 answer the other way is before the window. Reviewed by hand on 2026-10-01. This candidate has no recorded tracked floor votes.

Ficker wrote in 2024 that he supports "the United States continuing to provide weapons support and aid to Israel" and does "not support conditioning aid to Israel" In 2016 he marked Yes to "ending or reducing U.S. military aid to Israel until it abides by international and U.S. law."

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Deep Dive

Ficker is the Republican nominee in Maryland’s 6th District, a former state delegate and perennial candidate.

His record is a pair of questionnaire answers eight years apart. In a 2016 civil-rights coalition questionnaire, against "Do you support ending or reducing U.S. military aid to Israel until it abides by international and U.S. law?", his form is marked "__X__Yes". In 2024, running in the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate, he answered a Maryland primary voter guide from the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington and Washington Jewish Week, issued ahead of the May 14 primary. Asked how to reach a diplomatic and military solution as the war entered its seventh month, he wrote: "I do not want to see American boots on the ground in any foreign wars, but do support the United States continuing to provide weapons support and aid to Israel." Asked about conditioning aid, he wrote: "I do not support conditioning aid to Israel and I will be a strong supporter of Israel and the rest of our nation’s allies when I am in the U.S. Senate."

Both answers are carried with their dates, and the movement between them is his record. Nothing located has him addressing U.S. aid to Palestinians. Ask Ficker directly 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 2026-07-23) from the five lobbying groups we track; earlier cycles and earmarked donations not yet tracked.
Support-only OpenFEC data. Opposition independent expenditures are excluded.

In their words

“I do not want to see American boots on the ground in any foreign wars, but do support the United States continuing to provide weapons support and aid to Israel.”
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“I do not support conditioning aid to Israel and I will be a strong supporter of Israel and the rest of our nation’s allies when I am in the U.S. Senate.”
Source ↗, 2024-05-01

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

  • [Survey answer, 2016-03-25] The coalition questionnaire: Yes to ending or reducing aid until law-compliance. His comments field is blank on that item.
  • [Position, 2024-05-01, the date of the guide file; the question says the war "enters its seventh month", so he answered in April 2024] In the 2024 Maryland primary Jewish voter guide from the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington and Washington Jewish Week, in the U.S. Senate section under his own name, he answered the question on a diplomatic and military solution: "I stand firm in my belief that Israel has the right to defend itself, and do not believe the United States should be determining when Israel ends this war. I believe that only once Hamas is fully defeated can Israel have peace. I do not want to see American boots on the ground in any foreign wars, but do support the United States continuing to provide weapons support and aid to Israel." On conditioning aid: "I do not support conditioning aid to Israel and I will be a strong supporter of Israel and the rest of our nation’s allies when I am in the U.S. Senate. Israel has been a great ally to the United States and I see it to be our duty to help and protect them when they ask for our help." His answers in the same block argue against Larry Hogan, his 2024 Senate primary opponent.

U.S. aid to Palestinians

  • Nothing located.

Characterization of the conflict

  • Nothing located.

Related rhetoric and lobbying

  • Nothing located. No tracked funding badge appears because no committee support is recorded for him.

Safety and antisemitism (context)

  • Nothing located.

Race and status context

  • Republican nominee facing the sitting member, whose card carries its own record. His state-delegate service is outside what this site tracks.

Also in this race

  1. ✗ April McClain Delaney (Democrat)
  2. ? Moshe Landman (Green)

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