Jack Codiga
Asked whether the U.S. relationship with Israel is important, Codiga answered "it needs to be more balanced to be considered an alliance." He also calls AIPAC "the Israel lobby, which has too much influence in our politics."
Codiga is the Republican candidate for North Carolina's 12th District.
He answered a direct question in an iVoterGuide questionnaire. Asked "Is the United States' relationship with Israel important, and if so why?", he wrote: "It needs to be more balanced to be considered an alliance." That is the whole of his answer. Asked separately to respond to the statement that Islamic terrorism threatens U.S. national security, he agreed and added: "I agree but similar to the China answer, we have a hand to play in this too (ie unjust wars)."
His Ballotpedia platform raises AIPAC inside a plank about foreign influence in American politics. After arguing that foreign nationals influencing domestic politics should be registered and barred from elections, he writes: "A clear gap in the system is AIPAC, the Israel lobby, which has too much influence in our politics."
He has no federal voting record.
What he has not said is what he would do. He has not stated a position on any specific weapons transfer or funding measure, on conditioning aid, or on U.S. aid to Palestinians. If you want to know how he would vote, he has not yet been asked in a way that produced an answer, and he does not appear to have volunteered one.
Research
U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel
- [Position, read 2026-08-12] iVoterGuide questionnaire, opened and confirmed word for word. Question: "Is the United States' relationship with Israel important, and if so why?" His entire answer: "It needs to be more balanced to be considered an alliance." Undated form, read at this date.
- No position located on any specific weapons transfer, arms package, funding measure, or on conditioning assistance. His questionnaire answers elsewhere on the same form are similarly brief, so the brevity here is his register rather than an evasion of this question in particular.
- He has no federal voting record.
- [Position, undated, third-party characterization] An advocacy scorecard, youaredone.org, flags him as opposing "unconditional U.S. support for Israeli government actions," sourced to "Jack Codiga for Congress campaign." That is the scorecard's own summary and it is the only basis the research offers for the claim that his platform materials oppose unconditional military support. Advocacy sources are consulted, never card sources (C3), and the underlying campaign text was not located, so this is recorded rather than stated as his position.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
- No statement or documented position located.
Characterization of the conflict
- [Position, read 2026-08-12] On the same questionnaire, asked to respond to "Islamic terrorism is a threat to the United States' national security," he selected Agree and added: "I agree but similar to the China answer, we have a hand to play in this too (ie unjust wars)" (confirmed verbatim).
- No characterization located of the war in Gaza, of a two-state solution, or of Israeli or Palestinian conduct.
Related rhetoric and lobbying
- [Position, read 2026-08-12] Ballotpedia, opened and confirmed word for word, in a plank on foreign influence: "Foreign nationals influencing domestic politics should be registered, barred from participating in elections, and, at minimum, face deportation to their country of loyalty. A clear gap in the system is AIPAC, the Israel lobby, which has too much influence in our politics." The AIPAC sentence is quoted on the card, and the sentence before it is given here because it is the frame he put it in.
Safety and antisemitism (context)
- [2025-04-30] A comment on a Substack essay about Christian antisemitism, posted under the display name "Jack Codiga," reads: "Spot on. Being called an 'anti-Semite' is the final boss of insults. Glad that I came across this. So many Christians don't question anything about modern day Judaism. And Americans as a whole love to throw them a bone in saying that our country was founded on 'Judeo-Christian values' like that is a thing." Opened and confirmed word for word, and dated 30 April 2025 on the page rather than 29 April as the research has it.
⚠ **Attribution here is a display name on a third-party blog comment and nothing more.** No verification links that account to this candidate. This record already sits in a run that has found nine wrong-person attributions, and a comment of this kind is exactly the material that must not be published on weak attribution. It is recorded here, kept off the card, and flagged for a ruling.
Consulted
- predictionedge.com profile; Ballotpedia. Two localcandidates.org URLs were returned (a comparison page and a positions page); under the standing rule they cannot support a claim unless rendered and confirmed under his own heading, and the comparison page in particular pairs him with Rep. Alma Adams, so nothing is taken from either.
Also in this race: Alma S. Adams (Democrat) · All North Carolina candidates.
See the full record →But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. Every claim on this page goes through at least two verification steps. Open the interactive card for votes, funding and contact details.