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

Anthony DiLorenzo

Republican · U.S. House, New Hampshire District 1
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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: Answering on limiting aid to Israel, he backs Israel but says any military funding should carry a humanitarian condition, which is conditions. Reviewed by hand on 2026-10-01. This candidate has no recorded tracked floor votes.

At a Republican primary debate in August 2026 DiLorenzo said “I support peace through strength. I do support Israel.” He added that any military funding should carry a condition that the receiving country acts in a humanitarian way. He has set out no position on American aid to Palestinians.

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Deep Dive

Anthony DiLorenzo owns Key Auto Group, a chain of more than a dozen car dealerships, and lives in Portsmouth. He has not held public office. He won the Republican primary in New Hampshire's 1st District on September 8, 2026 with 52.0 percent of the vote in a field of five, with President Donald Trump's endorsement, and faces the Democrat Stefany Shaheen on November 3, 2026. The seat is open because Representative Chris Pappas ran for the Senate rather than for re-election. Because he has never served in Congress, no vote in the House is his.

He set out his position on this question once, at a debate before a Seacoast Republican group in Brentwood on August 13, 2026. Citizens Count, a nonpartisan New Hampshire civic organization that files candidates' answers question by question, records the answer under its heading on limiting aid to Israel and marks his position “Other”. He began: “I support peace through strength. I do support Israel. I do not believe that the United States should be the world's policeman.” He praised the president for requiring other members of the North Atlantic alliance to pay their share and for requiring Ukraine to repay American help with minerals, and said that it is important to support allies and also important to require allies to support themselves. He closed the answer with a condition: “In addition, any military funding should come with a string that the country receiving those funds acts in a humanitarian way as much as possible in a conflict.”

That is the whole of it. Nothing located has him naming an amount, a timetable or a further condition for the American military aid that goes to the government of Israel, or discussing the memorandum of understanding that sets it, or saying what he would do about the amendments the House has voted on to cut it. Nothing located has him speaking about what the United States should send to Palestinians, about humanitarian aid reaching Gaza, or about the United Nations agency for Palestine refugees. He has not described the war or said whether he thinks the conduct of the government of Israel in Gaza amounts to genocide, and no statement of his about pro-Israel lobbying or about antisemitism was found.

His campaign site sets out a plan of twenty-one numbered commitments. One touches this subject: “Support peace efforts, especially in the Middle East and Ukraine.” Another is to rebuild the military “to meet the global conflicts of the future”. The words Israel, Gaza, Palestinian, Hamas, AIPAC, antisemitism and foreign aid appear nowhere on the site, and its news page carries four endorsement announcements and nothing else. His fullest foreign policy answer anywhere is about Iran, which is a different question from what the United States sends to the government of Israel; it is on his research page in full.

You are better placed than we are to get the rest of this on the record. Ask DiLorenzo what he thinks the United States should send, fund or withhold, 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.

In their words

“I support peace through strength. I do support Israel. I do not believe that the United States should be the world's policeman.”
Source ↗, 2026-08-13
“In addition, any military funding should come with a string that the country receiving those funds acts in a humanitarian way as much as possible in a conflict.”
Source ↗, 2026-08-13

Research log

The notes behind this card: what we looked at, what we found, and where each item came from.

Every page named below was opened and read on 2026-09-18 unless the entry says otherwise. His campaign site was read in full, including its home, issues and news pages, and his Citizens Count profile was read question by question under his own heading. Bands: Position (2024-01-26 onward), Reaction window (2023-10-07 to 2024-01-25), Earlier record (before 2023-10-07), Undated. Nothing located for this candidate falls in the reaction window; he entered public life as a candidate in this cycle and no statement of his from those weeks was found. He has never held office, so this record carries no vote of his.

IDENTITY. There are other men of this name in public life, including one in state politics elsewhere, so every source used here was checked to be about the same person: the owner of Key Auto Group in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, born in 1964, who won the Republican nomination in New Hampshire's 1st District on September 8, 2026 with President Donald Trump's endorsement. His campaign site, his Citizens Count profile, Ballotpedia, the Union Leader, Business NH Magazine and the New Hampshire Bulletin all name that man, and the Citizens Count profile links his campaign site, his campaign email address and his own social media accounts, which closes the chain.

U.S. military aid and weapons to the government of Israel

  • [Position, 2026-08-13] Citizens Count's entry for him under the heading “Limit aid to Israel”, which marks his position “Other” and prints his answer in full: “I support peace through strength. I do support Israel. I do not believe that the United States should be the world's policeman. I appreciate what the president has done in requiring NATO countries to pay their fair share. I also appreciate what he's done in Ukraine. Unlike President Biden, that was giving away money with no repayment, President Trump has required Ukraine to pay us back with minerals. So I think it's important that we support our allies, but I think it's also important that we require our allies to Support themselves as well. In addition, any military funding should come with a string that the country receiving those funds acts in a humanitarian way as much as possible in a conflict.” The capital letter in the middle of the sentence is the page's own. The same organization files the identical answer under its heading on military aid to Ukraine, so the answer was given to a question that covered both. The page labels the source only “2026” and links the C-SPAN recording of the Republican primary debate in this district; the date above is resolved from that recording's own page and from the Union Leader's report of the same evening, as the verification record sets out.
  • [Position, 2026-08-13] The Union Leader's report of that debate, by Kevin Landrigan, published at 8:10 p.m. on August 13, 2026. It describes a ninety-minute debate before a crowd of 150 at Grace Ministries in Brentwood, moderated by state Representative Melissa Litchfield, with DiLorenzo, Hollie Noveletsky and Brian Cole on stage. On this subject it says only that the three of them all supported, among other things, “backing Israel” and “continued U.S. involvement in the wars in Ukraine and Iran”. That sentence is about all three candidates together and supports nothing sharper about any one of them; the quotations of his on this card come from his own answer as Citizens Count prints it. The rest of the report is about immigration, the Jones Act, energy and the primary itself.
  • [Position, 2026-08-16] Manchester Ink Link's report of the same debate, published Sunday, August 16, 2026, which carries the C-SPAN recording. Its sentence on this subject is also collective: “The candidates supported Israel and continued assistance to Ukraine but opposed deploying U.S. ground forces in the conflicts discussed during the debate.” Nothing on the card is built from it for the same reason.
  • [Read 2026-09-18] The C-SPAN page for the debate opened and its own description was read: “Brian Cole, Anthony DiLorenzo, and Hollie Noveletsky, all Republican candidates to represent New Hampshire's 1st Congressional District, participated in a debate ahead of the state's September 8 primary election.” The recording itself is behind a payment wall and was not watched, so nothing is claimed from the video.
  • Nothing located, at any date, in which he names an amount, a timetable or a further condition for American military aid to the government of Israel, discusses the memorandum of understanding that sets the annual amount, or says how he would vote on the amendments the House has considered to cut that aid.

U.S. aid to Palestinians

  • Nothing located, at any date. Neither Gaza nor the Palestinians nor the United Nations agency for Palestine refugees is named anywhere on his campaign site, in his Citizens Count profile, on his Ballotpedia page or in any report of his campaign that was read. The humanitarian condition he attaches to military funding is quoted above and is about the conduct of a country receiving American money, not about aid sent to Palestinians.

Characterization of the conflict

  • Nothing located, at any date. He has not said whether the conduct of the government of Israel in Gaza amounts to genocide, has not described the war, and has not spoken about a two-state solution, about settlements or about the West Bank in anything that was read.

Israel-related rhetoric and lobbying

  • Nothing located, at any date. No statement of his about AIPAC or any other organization that lobbies on this subject was found, and no such organization is recorded as endorsing him. His Ballotpedia page lists one endorsement, President Donald Trump. His campaign's news page carries four announcements, all of them endorsements: Turning Point Action on May 13, 2026, Representative Jim Jordan on April 20, 2026, a former state party chairman on March 11, 2026, and an initial list of state and local endorsers on February 17, 2026. None of the four mentions this subject.

Safety and antisemitism (context, not an answer to what America sends)

  • Nothing located, at any date.

What the campaign site and own pages say

  • [Position, read 2026-09-18] His issues page is a list of twenty-one commitments under the heading “Anthony DiLorenzo's Plan To Protect The American Dream”. Two of them touch foreign policy at all: “Support peace efforts, especially in the Middle East and Ukraine” and “Rebuild our military to meet the global conflicts of the future”. The other nineteen are about the budget, taxes, Social Security and Medicare, digital assets, the borders, immigration reform, women's sports, vocational and science education, abortion, health care, law enforcement, energy, China, firearms, opioids, veterans, elections and civility. Israel, Gaza, the Palestinians, Hamas, AIPAC, antisemitism and foreign aid appear nowhere on the site.
  • [Read 2026-09-18] His campaign's home page carries his family history and his working life and no foreign policy of any kind. The biography page linked from it was no longer online when we tried it on 2026-09-18.
  • [Read 2026-09-18] His Citizens Count profile. Read entry by entry under his own heading. He gives substantive answers, most of them taken from debates, on the deficit, tariffs, women's sports, a balanced budget amendment, pipelines, Iran, health care, Social Security, immigration enforcement, proof of citizenship, taxes and the Jones Act, and he is marked “No Response” against the organization's own written issue survey on about a dozen questions. Because he uses the range of answers freely elsewhere on the same profile, the unanswered survey questions are a fact about that survey rather than about him, and nothing is inferred from them either way. The survey carries no question about Israel, Gaza or foreign aid.
  • [Read 2026-09-18] His Ballotpedia page records that he has not completed Ballotpedia's 2026 Candidate Connection survey and carries nothing in scope.
  • [Read 2026-09-18] His social media accounts, listed on his Citizens Count profile, were not read: Facebook refused every request, and https://x.com/DiLorenzo4NH returns a page that shows the account's biography line and post count but requires an account before any post can be read. Nothing is claimed from either.

The race

  • [Read 2026-09-18] Ballotpedia's page for the 2026 election in New Hampshire's 1st District: “Stefany Shaheen and Anthony DiLorenzo are running in the general election for U.S. House New Hampshire District 1 on November 3, 2026.” The same page states: “There are no incumbents in this race.” The seat is open because Representative Chris Pappas ran for the United States Senate rather than for re-election. The filing deadline was June 12, 2026 and the primary was September 8, 2026. In the Republican primary DiLorenzo took 52.0 percent and 18,805 votes, ahead of Hollie Noveletsky on 26.4 percent, Brian Cole on 13.7 percent, Melissa Bailey on 3.8 percent and Lindsey Anderson on 3.2 percent; in the Democratic primary Stefany Shaheen took 37.2 percent, ahead of Maura Sullivan on 34.9 percent and Carleigh Beriont on 22.0 percent, in a field of nine. The result has been called and is not yet certified. Ballotpedia carries a standing note on its general election table that its candidate list may not be complete; the two names it gives are the two names the record carries.
  • [Read 2026-09-18] The New Hampshire Bulletin's account of the nomination, republished by Business NH Magazine, by William Skipworth, published September 9, 2026. It reports the Associated Press call at 8 p.m. on September 8 and, with 39 percent of votes counted, gives him roughly 51 percent, which is where the lower figure recorded elsewhere comes from; Ballotpedia's completed table gives 52.0 percent. It records that he earned the president's endorsement, that he is 62 and owns over a dozen car dealerships, and that he would be the first Republican from New Hampshire elected to Congress in more than a decade. It carries nothing in scope.
  • [Read 2026-09-18] New Hampshire Public Radio's report on the Republican primary, published August 19, 2026 under the headline that few differences were on display, was searched in full for Israel, Gaza, the Palestinians, foreign policy, the Middle East and antisemitism, and carries none of them. A guide to the 2026 New Hampshire election of September 18, 2026 records only that he and Shaheen meet in an open seat.
  • Stefany Shaheen's record is written separately and nothing of hers is narrated here.

Places that could not be read, so nothing is claimed from them

  • WMUR, which refused every request on 2026-09-18, including its report of his primary win at https://www.wmur.com/article/dilorenzo-republican-nomination-1st-district-9826/73646804 . Citizens Count attributes several of his answers on other subjects to WMUR debates; those answers are out of scope and none of them was needed here.
  • The body of the C-SPAN recording of the August 13, 2026 debate, which is behind a payment wall. Only the page's own description and date were read. This is the one recording that could add to this card, because it carries his answer as he gave it.
  • The New Hampshire Bulletin's own site, at https://newhampshirebulletin.com/2026/09/15/in-new-hampshires-1st-district-dilorenzo-and-shaheen-face-off-in-a-consequential-race/ , and its partner site News From The States, both of which returned 403 on every attempt. The Bulletin's nomination story was read where Business NH Magazine republishes it.
  • Facebook, which returned an error to every request on 2026-09-18, and X, which shows his profile line but no posts without an account.

Not on the card, and why

  • Everything he has said about Iran, which is his fullest foreign policy answer anywhere. Citizens Count records him saying he does not want the Iranian government to have a nuclear weapon, that he supports the president's action against its nuclear capability and his use of diplomacy and economic pressure over ground forces, that he would not support ground forces there, and that the straits must stay open. Iran is a different question from what the United States sends to the government of Israel.
  • What he has said about Ukraine, the North Atlantic alliance and repayment in minerals, which is inside the same answer as his words about Israel. The answer is printed whole on this page; only the parts about Israel and about conditions on military funding are used on the card.
  • The Union Leader's and Manchester Ink Link's sentences saying that all three Republican candidates backed Israel. A sentence about a group of candidates supports only what it says about the group, and his own words were available.
  • The budget, taxes, Social Security, immigration, energy, health care, elections, women's sports, firearms and opioid material that fills his campaign site and his profile. Out of scope. The subjects are named here so a reader can see what the rest of the record covers.
  • Stefany Shaheen's record. Another candidate's record belongs on that candidate's own card.

Sources retrieved for this card (address; opened or could not open; date)

  • https://www.citizenscount.org/candidate/anthony-dilorenzo (opened; 2026-09-18)
  • https://dilorenzoforcongress.com/ , https://dilorenzoforcongress.com/issues/ and https://dilorenzoforcongress.com/news/ (opened; 2026-09-18)
  • https://dilorenzoforcongress.com/meet-anthony/ (404; 2026-09-18)
  • https://www.unionleader.com/nh/news/politics/voters/gop-frontrunner-dilorenzo-takes-a-few-jabs-from-primary-rivals/article_7e2f7ede-a979-40c3-91c1-0d446f24ebf7.html (opened; 2026-09-18; published 2026-08-13)
  • https://manchester.inklink.news/watch-republican-candidates-emphasize-economy-energy-in-1st-district-debate/ (opened; 2026-09-18; published 2026-08-16)
  • https://www.c-span.org/program/campaign-2026/us-house-republican-primary-debate-in-new-hampshire/684017 (page opened, recording not readable; 2026-09-18)
  • https://ballotpedia.org/New_Hampshire%27s_1st_Congressional_District_election,_2026 and https://ballotpedia.org/Anthony_DiLorenzo (opened; 2026-09-18)
  • https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2026-08-19/republican-primary-1st-congressional-district-nh-newhampshire-2026-midterms-election (opened; 2026-09-18; published 2026-08-19)
  • https://www.businessnhmagazine.com/article/dilorenzo-secures-gop-nomination-in-nhrsquos-1st-congressional-district (opened; 2026-09-18; published 2026-09-09)
  • https://www.fosters.com/story/news/politics/2026/09/18/your-guide-to-the-2026-new-hampshire-election-including-senate-gov/91789440007/ (opened; 2026-09-18; published 2026-09-18)
  • https://x.com/DiLorenzo4NH (profile line only; 2026-09-18)
  • https://www.wmur.com/article/dilorenzo-republican-nomination-1st-district-9826/73646804 , https://newhampshirebulletin.com/2026/09/15/in-new-hampshires-1st-district-dilorenzo-and-shaheen-face-off-in-a-consequential-race/ , https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/dilorenzo-secures-gop-nomination-new-hampshires-1st-congressional-district and his Facebook page (could not open; 2026-09-18)
  • This is a record of what was checked on 2026-09-18, not a claim that no other statement exists.

Also in this race

  1. ✓ Stefany Shaheen (Democrat)

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