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

Jenny Costa Honeycutt

Republican · U.S. House, South Carolina 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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No recorded votes on the bills we track. We found nothing in their own words about Israel, Gaza or the war.

Honeycutt, a Charleston County Council member, left iVoterGuide’s questions unanswered and has no located statements on aid to Israel, aid to Palestinians, the conflict, or antisemitism. The one offered item, a Jewish Federation breakfast post, sits on another politician’s Facebook page and is not used here.

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Deep Dive

Honeycutt is the Republican nominee in South Carolina’s 1st District, winning the June 2026 primary runoff.

No statement, platform position, or questionnaire answer on any tracked topic was located: her iVoterGuide profile shows "Did not answer" across its questions, including the Israel-relationship question per the research.

The research offered one item for the antisemitism section, a February 2024 Facebook post about attending a Charleston Jewish Federation breakfast on protecting places of worship. The offered source is the Facebook page of Kathy Landing, a different South Carolina politician, describing her own attendance; nothing on it establishes Honeycutt’s. The claim is left out of the card summary as misattributed.

An empty record carries no implication either way. Ask Honeycutt directly and send us the reply: it goes on this page in her 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 2026-07-23) from the five lobbying groups we track; earlier cycles and earmarked donations not yet tracked.
Support-only OpenFEC data. Opposition independent expenditures are excluded.

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

U.S. aid to Palestinians

  • Nothing located at any date.

Characterization of the conflict

  • Nothing located at any date.

Related rhetoric and lobbying

  • Nothing located; no tracked committee support.

Safety and antisemitism

  • The research’s February 2024 Jewish Federation breakfast claim is not on the card summary: the only source is another politician’s Facebook post about her own attendance.

Race and status context

  • Republican nominee in a competitive coastal district. Her Democratic opponent’s card carries its own record.

Also in this race

  1. – Nancy Lacore (Democrat)
  2. ✗ Bill Reeside (Libertarian)

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