Washington, DC – J Street today celebrated the 2026 midterm results as a resounding victory for the politics that the organization has championed since its founding. J Street-endorsed candidates won races across the country and will make up a majority of Democrats in both the House and the Senate in the next Congress. An estimated 98% of JStreet-backed candidates are projected to win their races.
The results cap J Street’s largest midterm political effort ever. The organization championed more than 200 endorsees for the Senate and House and raised over $13 million to support them, including $10 million in direct candidate support through its conduit and more than $3 million invested by its super PAC, the J Street Action Fund.
The Action Fund went on offense against five AIPAC-backed candidates running in competitive races, investing $3 million to support pro-democracy opponents. All five candidates won, demonstrating that candidates with a compelling message and principled positions can defeat AIPAC’s political machinery.
“Last night was a resounding victory for the politics J Street has championed since our founding. In an election with so much at stake for American democracy, we are proud to have supported a record number of candidates who share our commitment to Israel’s future, democracy and a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” said J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami.
“Voters delivered a clear rejection of the Trump administration’s reckless policies at home and abroad, including its disastrous war of choice in Iran. They made clear they want a different direction for America and a different approach in the Middle East – one that has too often failed Americans, Israelis and Palestinians alike.”
Ben-Ami continued: "Candidates like Susan Collins and Mike Lawler were among the most prominent champions of the old approach to Israel politics. AIPAC and its allies spent aggressively to protect them and voters chose candidates backed by J Street instead.
“When the new Congress is sworn in, a majority of the Democrats in both chambers will be J Street-endorsed. That is a remarkable marker of how much the politics have changed. J Street is now the center of the Democratic Party’s approach to Israel and Palestine. Our job now is to turn that new political reality into a new American policy – one grounded in diplomacy, democracy and the security and rights of both Israelis and Palestinians.”
J Street’s full list of endorsees whose races have been called by the Associated Press so far includes:
- Adelita Grijalva (AZ-07)
- Mike McGuire (CA-01)
- Jared Huffman (CA-02)
- Ami Bera (CA-03)
- Richard Pan (CA-06)
- John Garamendi (CA-08)
- Josh Harder (CA-09)
- Mark DeSaulnier (CA-10)
- Lateefah Simon (CA-12)
- Kevin Mullin (CA-15)
- Sam Liccardo (CA-16)
- Ro Khanna (CA-17)
- Zoe Lofgren (CA-18)
- Salud Carbajal (CA-24)
- Raul Ruiz (CA-25)
- Judy Chu (CA-28)
- Laura Friedman (CA-30)
- Gil Cisneros (CA-31)
- Pete Aguilar (CA-33)
- Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37)
- Mark Takano (CA-39)
- Linda Sánchez (CA-41)
- Robert Garcia (CA-42)
- Derek Tran (CA-45)
- Mike Levin (CA-49)
- Scott Peters (CA-50)
- Sara Jacobs (CA-51)
- Joe Neguse (CO-02)
- Jason Crow (CO-06)
- Brittany Pettersen (CO-07)
- Manny Rutinel (CO-08)
- Luke Bronin (CT-01)
- Joe Courtney (CT-02)
- Rosa DeLauro (CT-03)
- Jahana Hayes (CT-05)
- Sarah McBride (DE-AL)
- Hank Johnson (GA-04)
- Nikema Williams (GA-05)
- Jasmine Clark (GA-13)
- Jill Tokuda (HI-02)
- Christina Bohannan (IA-01)
- Lindsay James (IA-02)
- Sarah Trone Garriott (IA-03)
- Jonathan Jackson (IL-01)
- Delia Ramirez (IL-03)
- Mike Quigley (IL-05)
- Sean Casten (IL-06)
- La Shawn Ford (IL-07)
- Melissa Bean (IL-08)
- Daniel Biss (IL-09)
- Bill Foster (IL-11)
- Nikki Budzinski (IL-13)
- Eric Sorensen (IL-17)
- Frank Mrvan (IN-01)
- André Carson (IN-07)
- Sharice Davids (KS-03)
- Zach Dembo (KY-06)
- Troy Carter (LA-02)
- Richard Neal (MA-01)
- Jim McGovern (MA-02)
- Lori Trahan (MA-03)
- Jake Auchincloss (MA-04)
- Katherine Clark (MA-05)
- Stephen Lynch (MA-08)
- Bill Keating (MA-09)
- Johnny Olszewski (MD-02)
- Kweisi Mfume (MD-07)
- Jamie Raskin (MD-08)
- Chellie Pingree (ME-01)
- Hillary Scholten (MI-03)
- Debbie Dingell (MI-06)
- Kristen McDonald Rivet (MI-08)
- Betty McCollum (MN-04)
- Fred Wellman (MO-02)
- Emanuel Cleaver (MO-05)
- Bennie Thompson (MS-02)
- Valerie Foushee (NC-04)
- Alma Adams (NC-12)
- Stefany Shaheen (NH-01)
- Maggie Goodlander (NH-02)
- Rebecca Bennett (NJ-07)
- Analilia Mejia (NJ-11)
- Melanie Stansbury (NM-01)
- Gabe Vasquez (NM-02)
- Teresa Leger Fernández (NM-03)
- Gregory Meeks (NY-05)
- Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08)
- Yvette Clarke (NY-09)
- Brad Lander (NY-10)
- Micah Lasher (NY-12)
- Paul Tonko (NY-20)
- John Mannion (NY-22)
- Brian Poindexter (OH-07)
- Marcy Kaptur (OH-09)
- Emilia Sykes (OH-13)
- Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01)
- Val Hoyle (OR-04)
- Andrea Salinas (OR-06)
- Bob Harvie (PA-01)
- Madeleine Dean (PA-04)
- Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-05)
- Chrissy Houlahan (PA-06)
- Bob Brooks (PA-07)
- Paige Cognetti (PA-08)
- Chris Deluzio (PA-17)
- Gabe Amo (RI-01)
- Seth Magaziner (RI-02)
- Jim Clyburn (SC-06)
- Bobby Pulido (TX-15)
- Veronica Escobar (TX-16)
- Joaquin Castro (TX-20)
- Katy Padilla Stout (TX-23)
- Sylvia Garcia (TX-29)
- Frederick Haynes (TX-30)
- Colin Allred (TX-33)
- Johnny Garcia (TX-35)
- Greg Casar (TX-37)
- Shannon Taylor (VA-01)
- Bobby Scott (VA-03)
- Jennifer McClellan (VA-04)
- Don Beyer (VA-08)
- James Walkinshaw (VA-11)
- Becca Balint (VT-AL)
- Suzan DelBene (WA-01)
- Emily Randall (WA-06)
- Pramila Jayapal (WA-07)
- Kim Schrier (WA-08)
- Adam Smith (WA-09)
- Mitchell Berman (WI-01)
- Mark Pocan (WI-02)
- Rebecca Cooke (WI-03)
- Gwen Moore (WI-04)
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