But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Christine Drazan
Republican · Governor, Oregon
–No Position Found
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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Drazan is a state senator from Canby, a former Oregon House Republican Leader, and the Republican nominee for governor in a rematch of the race she lost four years ago. She has never held federal office, so none of the congressional votes this site tracks are hers.
One post of hers does exist on this subject. It is short, it is dated, and it is set out in full on her research page. Apart from it, nothing was located: no statement on U.S. weapons or money for the government of Israel, none on conditioning that aid, none on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees or on the aid pipeline into Gaza, and none on Oregon's own decisions about pension investment or Israel bonds. Her campaign site is Oregon-domestic throughout, and she was out of elected office from January 2022 until 2025, which is most of the period this record covers.
If you want her position on what the United States sends, you are better placed to get it than we are: ask Drazan directly and send us the reply. It goes on this page in her own words.
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
Nothing located, in any band, in this record or in a fresh search of the open record in August 2026.
[Position, read 2026-08-18] The iVoterGuide profile for her 2026 race carries the question "Is the United States' relationship with Israel important, and if so why?" under a national security heading. Her answer reads "Did not answer", as does every other item on the form. Read and confirmed. Not used as evidence of a position.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
Nothing located.
Characterization of the conflict
[Reaction window, 2023-10-11] A post on her own account, verified word for word and timestamped 3:20 p.m. on the page: "My statement on the ongoing war in Israel. #IStandWithIsrael". The post shares an attached written statement whose contents could not be retrieved, so what that statement says is unknown and nothing is inferred from it. She held no elected office at the time. Not on the card summary: dated inside the reaction window.
Related rhetoric and lobbying
Nothing located. This record searched for an Oregon roll-call vote of hers on any boycott or divestment measure and found none.
Wrong-person correction already carried in this record, kept here so it is not repeated by anyone else: an Oregon House Republican Leader's statement of October 2023 asking the governor to lower flags to half-staff came from Jeff Helfrich, not from Drazan, who held no legislative office at that time. KTVZ carries Helfrich's statement under his own name and confirms it.
State context, not a position of hers: Oregon has enacted no statute barring state contracts with companies that boycott goods or services from Israel, and measures of that kind have failed to advance in its legislature.
Safety and antisemitism (context)
[Unconfirmed, 2022-01-27 and 2024-01-27] A fresh search reported two statements of hers marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, one asking Oregonians to "re-commit ourselves to confronting anti-Semitism in all forms" and one calling on people to "rededicate ourselves to combating antisemitism, safeguarding our freedoms, and living vibrant Jewish lives". Both carriers are her campaign's own social media pages and both return an error to us, so neither could be read and nothing from them is quoted or used. The second of the two falls outside the reaction window and would be card-eligible if it can be opened; it is the one retry worth making on this candidate.
[Position, read 2026-07-24] Campaign site: cost of living, the economy, homelessness, housing, schools and government reform. No foreign-policy content of any kind. Her state voters' pamphlet statement carries the same absence.
She did not serve in Congress during any of the tracked votes.
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