But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Mark Hackett
Other · U.S. Senate, South Carolina
✓Opposes
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.
Two reviewers, reading the public record as a whole, agree: His first-person, signed Senate message opens with Defund Israel, a call to end U.S. funding to Israel that necessarily takes in the military funding, with nothing pointing the other way. Reviewed by hand on 2026-10-01. This candidate has no recorded tracked floor votes.
Hackett, the Constitution Party nominee, opens his Senate message on his party's website with “Defund Israel.” The same list calls to defund Ukraine and the United Nations, and it does not say which funding it means. Nothing located has him addressing U.S. aid to Palestinians.
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Nothing located has him speaking to U.S. aid to Palestinians, to how he would describe the war, or to antisemitism. He has no campaign site of his own that could be found, he has not answered Ballotpedia's candidate questionnaire in any of his three races, and iVoterGuide's profiles for those races carry no answers from him. You are better placed to ask him than we are: ask Hackett which funding he means, and send us the reply. It goes on this page in his own words.
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 2026-10-01 unless the entry says otherwise. Bands: Position (2024-01-26 onward), Reaction window (2023-10-07 to 2024-01-25), Earlier record (before 2023-10-07), Undated. Hackett has not served in Congress, so none of the Senate votes this site tracks is his. Undated pages are recorded on the date we read them.
U.S. military aid and weapons to the government of Israel
[Position, read 2026-10-01] The Constitution Party of South Carolina's home page, under the heading "CPSC Nominates Mark Hackett for US Senate", beside his photograph: "Defund Israel. Defund Ukraine. Defund the UN. Get out of NATO. No more unconstitutional, undeclared no win wars. I promise to vote no on all legislation that does not reduce the 37 trillion dollar debt. Mark Hackett for Senate." The message is in the first person and signed with his campaign's name. It does not say whether "Defund Israel" means military aid, other funding, or both, and it gives no reason. The page carries no date.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
Nothing located, at any date.
Characterization of the conflict
Nothing located, at any date. The message's "No more unconstitutional, undeclared no win wars" names no war.
Israel-related rhetoric and lobbying
Nothing located, at any date.
Safety and antisemitism
Nothing located, at any date.
What the campaign site and own pages say
No campaign site of his own was found. His Ballotpedia page lists none, and the party's home page is the only place his own words on any subject could be read.
[Read 2026-10-01] His Ballotpedia page says he has not yet completed its 2026 candidate questionnaire and did not complete it in 2024 or 2020.
[Earlier record, 2020 race; read 2026-10-01] iVoterGuide's profile for his 2020 race for the House in the 6th District records "Candidate did not provide" against every biography field and "Did not answer" against all 39 questionnaire items, one of which asks whether he supports a boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against the government of Israel if it refuses to allow the creation of a Palestinian state A profile with no answers to any item is a fact about the guide's coverage of him, not a statement by him.
[Read 2026-10-01] The State Election Commission's candidate detail for the Statewide General Election prints Office U.S. Senate, Name on Ballot Mark Hackett, Party Constitution, a Greenville address, Status Active, Date Filed 3/23/2026.
[Position, 2026-08-26] Live 5 News reported that the runoff set up "a general election contest featuring Republican incumbent Sen. Darline Graham, Democrat Annie Andrews, Libertarian Kasie Whitener and Constitution Party candidate Mark Hackett." It also reported: "We also reached out to Hackett, the Constitution Party nominee, for comment. He did not respond."
[Read 2026-10-01] Ballotpedia's page for him lists him as the Constitution Party candidate in the November 3, 2026 general election and records that Darline Graham defeated Ralph Norman in the Republican primary runoff on August 25, 2026, that Annie Andrews won the Democratic primary on June 9, 2026, and that Kasie Whitener won the Libertarian convention on April 11, 2026. Its general-election list also carries five independents and a Democratic write-in whom the Live 5 report does not count. For his earlier races it records that "Incumbent William Timmons defeated Kathryn Harvey and Mark Hackett in the general election for U.S. House South Carolina District 4 on November 5, 2024", with 2.8 percent for him, and that "Incumbent James Clyburn defeated John McCollum and Mark Hackett in the general election for U.S. House South Carolina District 6 on November 3, 2020", with 0.9 percent.
[Read 2026-10-01] The Constitution Party of South Carolina's home page states the party's goal: "to restore American jurisprudence to its Biblical foundations and to limit the federal government to its Constitutional boundaries."
Places that could not be read, so nothing is claimed from them
Vote Smart's biography page for him, https://justfacts.votesmart.org/candidate/biography/190438/mark-hackett (source could not be opened).
A Facebook post at https://www.facebook.com/ReesideforCongress/posts/im-on-the-ballot-the-fec-approved-me-the-state-of-sc-acknowledges-i-am-a-candida/122142211065092433/ came up in our research for him. It is on a page belonging to a different candidate and did not open; nothing from it is about him or used here.
Not on the card, and why
The rest of his message, on Ukraine, the United Nations, NATO, undeclared wars and the federal debt, is quoted on the card only as the context of "Defund Israel"; none of it is read as a position on this question.
Live 5 News's report that he did not respond to its request for comment: a fact about a news outlet's request, recorded above.
Other men named Mark Hackett, including a former local councillor in England and a financial market strategist: different people, and nothing about them is used.
The unanswered iVoterGuide items about Israel: a guide with no answer to any of its items says nothing about him.
Sources retrieved for this card (address; opened or could not open; date)
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