Foreign-lobby money compromises America First. The U.S. has no formal mutual-defense treaty with Israel; AIPAC operates a super-PAC (United Democracy Project) that spent over $100M during the 2024 cycle on independent expenditures against U.S. candidates who criticize Israeli government policy. A candidate who has accepted that money has, in their own revealed preference, accepted a foreign-policy filter on their congressional vote. The same logic covers China-linked donations, where federal law also prohibits CCP members from contributing.
For every candidate with a documented donor record, two things happen: (1) the specific category question is marked False (foreign_policy_restraint[q4] for AIPAC + China; economic_stewardship[q5] — the WEF/ESG/Davos capture question — for Soros-network donors), so the per-category subscore drops by 2 points; (2) an additional dollar-bracket adjustment is applied to the total, making the penalty proportional to the magnitude of the funding. Both impacts are visible on this page.
TrackAIPAC career-total report shows $444,106 from AIPAC and pro-Israel-lobby PACs.
AIPAC operates a super-PAC (United Democracy Project) that spent over $100M during the 2024 cycle on independent expenditures targeting U.S. candidates who criticize Israeli government policy. The U.S. has no formal mutual-defense treaty with Israel. RESOLUTE Citizen treats documented AIPAC contributions as a failure on foreign_policy_restraint/q4 (the foreign-lobby question) AND applies a dollar-bracket adjustment to the total score.
U.S. Senator since 2013. 2016 VP nominee. Former VA Governor (2006-2010). Catholic but votes progressive on all social issues. F-rated by NRA. 100% NARAL rating.
Candidate affirms life begins at conception and personhood from conception
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Cosponsored the Women's Health Protection Act to enshrine abortion on demand as a federal right, and identifies as pro-choice with no support for any gestational limit or personhood-from-conception recognition.
Candidate supports completed physical border barrier and active military border presence
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Candidate supports mandatory deportation of all illegal aliens, including those who entered as minors
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Championed the DREAM Act and backed the 2024 bipartisan Senate border deal, which offered humanitarian parole authority and legal-residency pathways rather than the mandatory-deportation framework the rubric requires.
Voted for the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (June 2022) and issued a joint statement celebrating its passage; the law creates financial incentives for state red-flag laws, expands juvenile background-check requirements, and tightens straw-purchase prohibitions — directly opposing the rubric's rejection of red-flag laws.
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