But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Mike Carey
- Backed with $25K by PACs we track that support U.S. weapons funding for the government of Israel (lifetime)
- Endorsed by AIPAC
Carey's votes are his position on aid; no statement of his explaining them was located. His located remarks are about domestic protest, including in October 2025 that "support for terrorist organizations like Hamas should be rejected."
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Deep Dive
Carey has represented Ohio's 15th District since 2021.
His recorded votes on the measures tracked here are consistent, and no statement of his explaining any of them was located in the position band.
What is on the record is about the United States rather than about what it sends. In October 2025 he responded to remarks by a central Ohio religious leader, citing a synagogue firebombing in Denver and saying: "We have also seen anti-Israel mobs form on college campuses across America, and even outside my own home in Central Ohio." He added: "Support for terrorist organizations like Hamas should be rejected."
In June 2025 he led a letter to the Defense and Homeland Security secretaries about drone defences for American infrastructure, citing drone warfare in Israel's operations as technical context. That is a letter about domestic air defence, not about assistance to Israel.
His recorded votes appear as badges on this card.
The record
Supported sending weapons or funding in 6 of 6 tracked votes
• Vote record imported from official House Clerk roll calls for H.R. 6126, H.R. 8034, and H.R. 8369. Other position fields remain under investigation.
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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Voted to send weapons or funding in more than half of their recorded tracked votes. (Supported sending weapons or funding in 6 of 6 tracked votes.)
The money
$25K in lifetime support from the five lobbying groups we track
In their words
AIPAC (2026 endorsement)
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
- **No statement located in the position band** addressing U.S. weapons or funding for Israel, or conditioning it. His recorded votes appear as badges on this card and no explanation of them in his own words was located.
- [Position, 2025-06-27] He led a letter to Secretaries Hegseth and Noem on U.S. drone defences, with the signed letter. Per the research it cites Israel's drone operations and confrontations with Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis as technical context for modern threats. **The subject is defence of American infrastructure**, not assistance to Israel, and it is recorded as that. Not opened.
- [After October 7, 2023-10-08, reported] Said "The acts of terrorism unleashed upon Israel this weekend are heinous and must be condemned in the strongest sense possible. The United States Government has a responsibility to stand with and assist Israel in protecting itself from these unprovoked crimes against humanity." From the weeks right after October 7, and see the duplication note below. **The source for this resolved to nothing.**
U.S. aid to Palestinians
- No statement or documented position located.
Characterization of the conflict
- [Position, 2025-10-06] His release responding to a central Ohio imam, opened and confirmed word for word: "We have also seen anti-Israel mobs form on college campuses across America, and even outside my own home in Central Ohio," and "Support for terrorist organizations like Hamas should be rejected." The release also refers to a synagogue being firebombed in Denver. This is about speech and protest in the United States rather than about the conflict itself or about assistance.
- [Position, 2025-06-27, reported] In the drone letter, referred to "Israel's confrontations with Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis."
⚠ A DUPLICATED PHRASE ACROSS TWO OHIO REPUBLICANS
- The October 2023 sentences attributed to him are attributed **word for word** to Rep. Warren Davidson on another card, dated 7 October 2023: "the acts of terrorism unleashed upon Israel this weekend are heinous and must be condemned in the strongest sense possible" and "unprovoked crimes against humanity." **Neither entry supplies a resolvable URL**: both entries resolve to nothing.
- Either both members issued near-identical statements, which happens with shared caucus language, or the research has mixed up two Ohio Republicans. It cannot be settled from what was found, so the phrase is used on neither card. This pattern has appeared before, with Walter and Bean in Illinois and Esti and DeLancy in Georgia.
Related rhetoric and lobbying
- Covered by the October 2025 release above.
Safety and antisemitism (context)
- [Position, 2024-05-08, reported] Spoke to Spectrum News about antisemitism on college campuses. No source located.
- The October 2025 release above also belongs to this dimension: it concerns threats and protest directed at people in the United States. Safety context, never an answer about U.S. weapons or funding.
Note on sources
- Six sources found: one resolves to nothing, one is an unlabelled YouTube video, one is the letter PDF, and the October 2025 release is cited twice. Two distinct pages could be read, and neither addresses U.S. assistance.
Also in this race
- ✓Opposes Don Leonard (Democrat)
- ?Mixed Brennan Barrington (Libertarian)
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