Troy Carter
D · U.S. House, LA-2 · Tier 2/3
Tier 2/3, between “Mainstream pro-Israel” and “Pro-Israel, critical”
Cosponsored Block the Bombs in April 2026, months after the Aug 2025 office protests, and was an original cosponsor of Casten’s Ceasefire Compliance Act (Feb 2026). He led two letters to President Biden: one in late 2023 urging an extended pause and a bilateral ceasefire (“We acknowledge that a unilateral ceasefire is impossible”), and an April 11, 2024 letter saying the Israeli government is responsible for addressing Gaza’s humanitarian crisis “on par with the government’s duty to self-defense,” with children starving. In 2025 he signed letters demanding answers on the detentions of student activists Mahmoud Khalil (March) and Mohsen Mahdawi (April) and the Pressley–Pettersen letter urging Secretary Rubio to press Israel to allow a surge of aid into Gaza, above all infant formula (August). Recurring AIPAC money since 2022, no public break. He calls Israel an essential ally with the right to defend itself, frames peace around two states, voted the 2024 aid package, and does not use “genocide.” Explaining his July 15, 2026 Aye on the Massie amendment to strip Israel’s military financing, he said “America has both the right and the responsibility to ensure that our assistance reflects our values and our commitment to human rights,” called it “a vote for accountability” and said “the policies of the Netanyahu government cannot continue,” while affirming Israel’s right to defend itself. He joined most House Democrats on the September 2025 Schneider–Raskin letter to Netanyahu and his ministers opposing annexation of the West Bank, and in January 2026 signed the Welch–Khanna letter urging Secretary Rubio to warn Israel off annexation bills and the E-1 settlement, condemn de facto annexation through settler violence and forced displacement, and reimpose Biden-era West Bank sanctions. On Sep 24, 2026 Carter signed a 72-member letter urging Netanyahu to contain settler violence in the West Bank and “halt further settlement approvals.” On Oct 1, 2026 Carter became an original cosponsor of the Stop the Settlements Act (H.R.10642), which would sanction those who build or expand Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza and ban imports of settlement goods. Under Louisiana’s 2026 rules all House candidates run together in an open primary on Nov 3 in the redrawn districts; if no one wins a majority, the top two meet in a Dec 12 runoff.
A 2/3. He cosponsors Block the Bombs — an offensive-arms-conditioning act — and led a letter saying the Israeli government is responsible for addressing Gaza’s humanitarian crisis “on par with the government’s duty to self-defense,” with children starving, and was an original cosponsor of Casten’s Ceasefire Compliance Act (Feb 2026) — which together move him off a clean 2. Against those steps and his July 2026 Aye on the Massie amendment stands money from AIPAC’s PAC, with no public break: $25,660 in 2022, $17,600 in 2023 and $23,750 in 2024. He keeps the liberal-Zionist frame: he calls Israel an essential ally with the right to defend itself, led the bilateral-ceasefire letter explicitly rejecting a unilateral ceasefire, frames peace around two states, signed the April 2024 Gottheimer–Wilson letter urging Speaker Johnson to bring the Senate-passed $95 billion supplemental, with its military aid to Israel, to an immediate vote and then voted for it, and doesn’t use ‘genocide.’
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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).