Teresa Benitez-Thompson
D · U.S. House, NV-2 · Tier 3
Tier 3, “Pro-Israel, critical”
Her campaign policy page says U.S. military aid to Israel “should not be unconditional,” backs “phasing out direct financial support for offensive arms sales to Israel,” conditioning future sales on “the Ceasefire Compliance Act” and restoring UNRWA funding, while also backing “Funding for defense systems like the Iron Dome” and a two-state framework; she will not take AIPAC money. Asked by The Nevada Independent (Sept 2026) whether the U.S. should reduce its support for Israel, she answered “Mostly yes”: “The U.S. needs to move away from funding offensive arms sales to Israel.” A former Nevada Assembly majority leader who voted for the state’s 2017 anti-BDS law, she faces Republican David Flippo for the open NV-2 seat.
A 3. As a challenger she has no votes in Congress, so her words weigh most, but she also has a record from the Nevada Assembly. Her funding pledge reaches offensive weapons only: U.S. military aid to Israel “should not be unconditional,” she supports “phasing out direct financial support for offensive arms sales to Israel,” and she would make future sales conditional on Casten’s Ceasefire Compliance Act, with “no arm sales to countries that block humanitarian aid.” She names “the death of more than 70,000 Palestinians in Gaza, the use of American weapons in those deaths.” What holds her at 3 is an act beside that pledge: as a state legislator she voted for Nevada’s 2017 law barring state contracts with companies that boycott Israel (SB 26, passed 39–0 in the Assembly). She also backs “Funding for defense systems like the Iron Dome,” keeps a two-state frame, and, pressed in May 2026 on whether Gaza is a genocide, pointed to the United Nations (“The United Nations said it was a genocide”) without calling it one herself. Counter-case: 3/4, weighing the offensive-arms phase-out and the Ceasefire Compliance Act over the 2017 vote.
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elect26 places 2026 midterm candidates on a six-tier spectrum, from 1 (most pro-Israel) to 6 (most critical of Israel).