Marsha Blackburn
Blackburn, the sitting senator running for governor, co-led the May 2024 resolution condemning “any action by the Biden Administration to withhold or restrict ammunition or weapons for Israel”, voted against every resolution to block specific arms sales, and wrote that campus “pro-Hamas activists must face consequences”.
Blackburn is the Republican nominee for governor of Tennessee; her federal record as a U.S. senator carries this card. Her recorded Senate votes appear as badges: No on each resolution that would have blocked specific U.S. arms sales to Israel (keeping the sales moving), and No on the February 2024 combined package that carried Israel aid alongside Ukraine and Taiwan funding.
In May 2024 she and Sen. Graham introduced the resolution, co-sponsored by 48 Republican senators, condemning any administration action to withhold or restrict ammunition or weapons for Israel. In 2021, in a Senate floor speech, she said Israel has an absolute right to defend itself and characterized contrary framing as anti-Israel propaganda.
On campuses, her May 2024 statement condemned Brown University for agreeing to a divestment vote and Columbia for negotiating with what she called "pro-Hamas students", urging "actual consequences" including her bill with Sen. Marshall to place people who support designated terrorist organizations on federal watch and No-Fly lists, a proposal Rep. Ilhan Omar attacked as dangerous, per the Jerusalem Post. With Sen. Tillis she introduced the bill making intentional highway-blocking a federal offense, which their statement called a "direct response to radical tactics of pro-Palestinian protesters", per the Guardian. In 2021 she backed the Senate resolution condemning antisemitic attacks.
Her October 2023 statements, including the shoots-sails-flies-or-spies aid formulation and her $14.3 billion standalone bill with Sen. Marshall, are on the research page. An October 2025 criticism of a Nashville council resolution sits on her own social account and is held for human verification.
Tracked votes: backed sending U.S. weapons or funding to the government of Israel in 9 of 10 recorded votes.
Research
U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel
- Her recorded Senate votes appear as badges on this card: No on each disapproval resolution that would have blocked specific arms sales to Israel; No on the February 2024 combined package that included Israel aid with Ukraine and Taiwan funding.
- [Action, 2024-05-14] The Blackburn-Graham resolution, verified on her own site and quoted on the card; 48 Republican co-sponsors.
- Her October 2023 aid formulation and the October 2023 standalone $14.3 billion bill are off the card.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
- Nothing located as a distinct position at any date.
Characterization of the conflict
- [Position, 2021-05-17] The Senate floor speech, verified by her own site’s page.
- Her October 2023 press conference and Fox News remarks are off the card.
Related rhetoric and lobbying
- [Held for human verification, 2025-10-01] Her criticism of a Nashville council member’s Gaza resolution; her own campaign social account.
- [Action] The research reports co-sponsorship of Sen. Scott’s resolution in defense of Israel; the offered release was not checked for her name, so it stays reported.
Safety and antisemitism
- [Position, 2024-05-13] The campus-consequences statement, verified and quoted on the card; the pro-Hamas characterizations are hers.
- [Action, 2024-05] The watch-list/No-Fly proposal and the highway-blocking bill, both verified in the coverage; Rep. Omar’s criticism is carried as hers.
- [Action, 2021-05-26] Support for the Senate antisemitism resolution, verified by her own release.
- Her October 2023 campus statements and the Rosen resolution are off the card.
Sources retrieved for this card
- Pages the research round retrieved on 2026-08-21 (HTTP 200, naming the candidate) and read into the digest this card was written from; each is listed once, and those already cited above are not repeated.
- [Retrieved 2026-08-21] ballotpedia.org/Marsha_Blackburn
- [Retrieved 2026-08-21, published 2023-10-25] smokymountainnews.com/blackburn-on-israel-whatever-they-need
- [Retrieved 2026-08-21, published 2023-10-30] blackburn.senate.gov/blackburn-marshall-gop-senators-introduce-legislation-to-giv
- [Retrieved 2026-08-21, published 2023-10-12] newsweek.com/republican-questions-biden-cancel-student-loans-pro-palestin
- [Retrieved 2026-08-21, published 2023-10-19] calhounjournal.com/u-s-senator-katie-britt-joins-colleagues-in-denouncing-hamas
- [Retrieved 2026-08-21, published 2023-10-11] lawler.house.gov/documentsingle.aspx
- [Retrieved 2026-08-21, published 2024-03-22] scott.senate.gov/sen-scott-introduces-resolution-in-defense-of-israel-2
- [Retrieved 2026-08-21, published 2023-10-23] blackburn.senate.gov/antisemitism-pervades-america-s-college-campuses
- [Retrieved 2026-08-21, published 2023-10-24] jewishinsider.com/marsha-blackburn-jacky-rosen-resolution-campus-antisemitism
- 2 addresses did not open to the fetcher (facebook.com ×2); a machine cannot read those carriers, and any that matter are named in the sections above.
Race and status context
- Republican nominee for governor; a sitting U.S. senator, so this card carries a federal record. Her Democratic opponent’s card carries its own record.
Also in this race: Misam Abidi (Independent), Dean Brewer (Independent), Ray Brown (Independent), Jerri Green (Democrat), David Hatley (Independent), Wendell Jackson (Independent), Charles Morgan (Independent), Eddie Lee Murphy (Independent), Lauren Pinkston (Independent), Victor Scoggin (Independent), Dave Seeman (Independent), Karl Smithson (Independent), L. Webb Taylor (Independent), Robert Vick (Independent) · All Tennessee candidates.
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