Jacqueline Auringer
Auringer attacked her opponent’s vote to block U.S. military aid to Israel, saying he "broke his promise to unequivocally support Israel" and should return donors’ money. She has published no platform of her own on the conflict.
Auringer is the Republican candidate in New York’s 18th District, challenging the incumbent, Pat Ryan. She has held no federal office.
Her located record on this question is entirely a response to his. On July 15, 2026 Ryan voted for an amendment to cut $3.3 billion in annual U.S. military aid to the Israeli government, and she has attacked that vote since. Her clearest statement of direction is: "Pat Ryan broke his promise to unequivocally support Israel. He should return the money to the donors who believed he would keep that promise."
That tells a voter which way she points: she treats continuing U.S. military aid to Israel as the commitment a member should keep. It is a position expressed through criticism of an opponent rather than one set out in her own platform, and the card says so, because the first search found no policy document, questionnaire answer or platform page from her on the conflict.
Her own two press releases, read in full, are the same shape at greater length. In the July 17 release she demands he return the $791,782 he has taken through AIPAC since 2022: "Give it back, Pat. Not some of it, every single penny." She also says of the winner of the NY-13 primary that "A candidate who questioned whether Israel should even exist just won a Democratic primary". In the July 21 release she quotes his 2024 debate answer, that he could think of nothing Israel could do to lose his support, and argues he has since reversed under pressure: "This isn’t about Pat Ryan changing his mind. This is about Pat Ryan getting pressured by the DSA and folding."
All of that is about him. Across four sources she is not recorded saying what she would vote for, what she would send, or on what terms. Her campaign site carries a "Track AIPAT" feature to monitor whether he refunds the money.
Research
U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel
- 2026-07-30 [Current position; card-leading; VERIFIED]: Washington Examiner, read in full, quotes her: "Pat Ryan broke his promise to unequivocally support Israel. He should return the money to the donors who believed he would keep that promise." Direction: she treats continuing U.S. military aid to the Israeli government as the commitment that was broken. This is the closest thing on the record to a position of her own, and it is still framed as his failure rather than her policy.
- 2026-07-21 [Current position; VERIFIED]: Her "Ryan Caves to DSA" release reproduces an exchange from his 2024 debate against Alison Esposito. Moderator: "Is there anything or any action Israel could take that would make you lose support for the Jewish state?" Ryan: "Not that I, not that I can think of." Her release then says he "is distancing himself from Israel's supporters and shifting his positions", and quotes her: "This isn't about Pat Ryan changing his mind. This is about Pat Ryan getting pressured by the DSA and folding. He gave voters a straight answer in that debate, and now he's caving to the loudest, most radical voices in his own party." Every claim in it is about him.
- 2026-07-17 [Current position; VERIFIED]: Her "Give It Back" release demands he return "the nearly $792,000 he pocketed through AIPAC", and states the figure and its provenance itself: "According to reporting by the Washington Examiner, Ryan has taken in $791,782 through AIPAC since 2022." Her quote: "Give it back, Pat. Not some of it, every single penny. Pat Ryan financed his political career on AIPAC's money but the moment the radicals in the DSA demanded it, he cut ties; he folded." She asks for three things "in public, with paperwork": the amount, which contributions, and documentation. The release also asserts that he "spent years championing aid to Israel, traveled there through AIPAC's sister organization, and built a public record touting the U.S.-Israel alliance".
⚠ **A CORRECTION OF OURS ON THIS ITEM, 2026-08-11.** An earlier version of this card flagged the $792,000 demand as "a paper's own analysis reported as the candidate's claim", on the reasoning that the figure came from the Examiner's FEC review rather than from her. That flag was wrong and is withdrawn. Her release cites the Examiner for the number and then demands "the full $791,782" in her own words, so the first search’s account of it was accurate. The finding here is about our extraction, not about her.
- Undated [Current position]: Her campaign homepage. The first search’s own verdict is that she has published no detailed platform or standalone document setting out her position on the conflict, and reading both releases in full confirms it: neither says what she would do.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
- Nothing located. No statement on UNRWA, Gaza humanitarian funding or the aid pipeline, in either direction.
Characterization of the conflict
- 2026-07-17 [Current position; VERIFIED]: In the "Give It Back" release she writes of the NY-13 Democratic primary winner that "it surfaced that she had posted that Israel's right to exist was in question, on a deleted account", and quotes herself: "A candidate who questioned whether Israel should even exist just won a Democratic primary with the backing of Pat's pal, the mayor of New York City." The first search reported this and it is confirmed verbatim; an earlier version of this card excluded it as unsourced, which was our reading failure.
The candidate she refers to is ny13-avilachevalier, written at the same time. What a rival says about a candidate is never that candidate's position, and this appears on her research page rather than theirs.
- The first search’s own verdict: she has not published a platform or document addressing the roots of the conflict or a long-term resolution, including two-state or border questions. Confirmed.
Rhetoric and lobbying
- 2026-07-17 onward [Current position; VERIFIED]: Her campaign site carries a "Track AIPAT" item in its main navigation, the feature the first search described for monitoring whether her opponent returns the money. A tracker of an opponent's refunds is not a statement of her own position on weapons or funding.
- 2026-07-16 and 2026-07-30 [Current position]: She argued that discarding pro-Israel endorsements was a tactic to appease the Democratic Socialists of America, per the Washington Examiner's earlier report and the later one, and in her own words in both releases. A claim about her opponent's motives rather than a statement of her own policy, and a money-and-endorsements argument must never read as a weapons or funding position in its own right.
- 2026-07-22 [Current position]: Hudson Valley One covered the same dispute from the incumbent's side and is the source page for his own words.
Safety and antisemitism
- Nothing located. The first search’s own verdict: no public statements, campaign policy releases or legislative proposals from her addressing antisemitism, campus safety or anti-hate measures. She uses "antisemitic" of the DSA in the July 21 release, which is a characterization of a rival organisation rather than a policy on antisemitism.
Consulted, could not be reached
- A localcandidates.org page for her. That host returns 200 and renders its body client-side, so a browser can read it and our open cannot.
- Her campaign Facebook page root would not open.
What came back empty or unusable
- Nothing on this record is now unreadable. Her press pages were recovered on re-extraction and everything the first search reported from them checks out.
- No position of her own on U.S. aid to Palestinians was located in either direction.
- The gap that remains is hers rather than ours: across four readable sources and two of her own press releases, she is not recorded stating what she would send, vote for, or condition.
Also in this race: Patrick Ryan (Democrat) · All New York candidates.
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