Dean Arnold
I · U.S. House, TN-3 · Tier 4
Tier 4, “Critical / conditions aid”
A Chattanooga author, filmmaker and Orthodox Christian podcaster whose campaign page offers no platform, only a note that he is running as an independent and a link to his daily podcast. Asked in iVoterGuide’s 2026 questionnaire whether the U.S. relationship with Israel is important, he answered: “No. It has become destructive.” On the podcast, which he uses for his campaign, he said on June 6, 2026 that he breaks with Republicans “on the Israel question”: “we’ve got to quit empowering this group of people, Zionists and others,” and “especially in Gaza, they’re conducting a genocide … it’s got to stop.” On August 18 he said Israel is “doing the genocide in Gaza” and, giving scriptural and moral reasons, that “they do not deserve the land”; on September 20, “We got to get rid of this attachment to Israel that’s causing everybody to get destroyed and causing us to … have blood on our hands for genocide.”
A 4, on a thin record: one questionnaire answer and three 2026 episodes of the podcast he uses for his campaign. Asked by iVoterGuide whether the U.S. relationship with Israel is important, he answered “No. It has become destructive.” On June 6 he said he breaks with Republicans “on the Israel question” and that “especially in Gaza, they’re conducting a genocide … it’s got to stop”; on August 18, that Israel is “doing the genocide in Gaza” and “It’s become an offensive problem”; on September 20, “We got to get rid of this attachment to Israel,” which he said puts “blood on our hands for genocide.” That is a call to end U.S. backing of Israel, argued on the genocide and repeated. He has never named a cut to aid or a halt to weapons, and on foreign policy he chose the option that the U.S. “should stay out of foreign conflicts completely.” His campaign page states no positions and he has no Ballotpedia survey. Counter-case: a 4/5, on four unhedged statements over four months.
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