But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Scott Colom
Democrat · U.S. Senate, Mississippi
?Mixed
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.
Two reviewers, reading the public record as a whole, agree: In an August 2026 news report, his campaign answered a question about ending the U.S. alliance with Israel by saying he supports "a two-state solution in the Middle East", without saying where he stands on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. Reviewed by hand on 2026-10-09. This candidate has no recorded tracked floor votes.
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Colom is a district attorney and the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in Mississippi. He has not held federal office, so there are no votes on this card.
He has been asked the question once, in August 2026, and the answer came from his campaign rather than from him. Magnolia Tribune put three questions to him: whether he identified with the newer or the older wing of his party, whether abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement was wrong, and what his position was on ending the U.S. alliance with Israel. His campaign manager replied with a list: "Scott opposes abolishing ICE, and supports securing our border, enforcing the law, cutting taxes for cops and teachers, and a two-state solution in the Middle East — period." That answers the first two questions and does not answer the third. It is the only thing on this record that touches the subject, and reading more into it than it says would be doing the campaign's work for it.
His campaign site is otherwise entirely domestic: lowering costs, saving rural hospitals, bringing jobs home, gun rights, and an anti-corruption argument against the incumbent. No foreign-policy page, no statement, no questionnaire answer.
One thing is worth correcting rather than leaving to circulate. A line about a Mississippi Senate candidate calling himself the only one not beholden to the pro-Israel lobby has been widely repeated. It was said at the Neshoba County Fair in June 2026 by the independent candidate in this race, not by Colom, whose remarks at the same event were about corruption, tariffs and taxes. Separately, a donation from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's political committee reported in October 2025 went to the incumbent, not to him.
If you want his own answer on what the United States sends, you are better placed to get it than we are: ask Colom 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 2026-07-13) 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
[Position, 2026-08-12] Magnolia Tribune asked him directly what his position was on ending the U.S. alliance with Israel, among other questions prompted by a Democratic Senate primary in Michigan. His campaign manager's reply, verified verbatim: "Scott opposes abolishing ICE, and supports securing our border, enforcing the law, cutting taxes for cops and teachers, and a two-state solution in the Middle East — period." The alliance question is not addressed in it. The em dash is the statement's own. Tippah News carried the same statement the following day, quoting it identically, and an Enterprise-Journal report covered the same exchange.
⚠ **What this does and does not establish.** A spokesperson's list is not the candidate speaking, and a list that omits the question it was asked is not an answer to it. Our search notes read this exchange as Colom declining to support ending the alliance or restricting U.S. support. That is an inference from silence and it is not printed here.
Nothing else located. His campaign site was searched on 2026-07-24 for content on this subject and returned none.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
Nothing located.
Characterization of the conflict
[Position, 2026-08-12] Support for a two-state solution, in the campaign statement above, stated by his campaign manager rather than by him.
Related rhetoric and lobbying
[Position, 2026-06-24] Wrong-person correction, kept on the record because the misattribution is in circulation: at the Neshoba County Fair it was the independent candidate in this race, not Colom, who called himself the only candidate not "beholden to the pro-Israel lobby" (Mississippi Today, read 2026-08-17). Colom's own remarks at the fair, as reported there, were about corruption, tariffs and taxes.
[Context, October 2025] A reported donation from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's political committee went to the incumbent senator, not to Colom. Recorded so the two are not confused.
No money from any tracked committee appears on his own record.
Safety and antisemitism (context)
[Position, 2026-01-11] After an arson attack damaged the Beth Israel Congregation synagogue in Jackson, a statement attributed to his campaign account condemned it, saying an attack on a religious institution is an attack on Mississippians' safety and freedom and that antisemitism must be opposed in any form. The only address for it is a campaign social-media post that returns an error, so the words are described here rather than quoted, and no quote entry is created.
Race and status context
Democratic nominee, having won the March 2026 primary with about 73 per cent (NBC News), facing the incumbent and an independent, per Ballotpedia's race page. His fundraising is covered by the Commercial Dispatch. He did not serve in Congress during any of the tracked votes.
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