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Eli Crane
Image of Eli Crane

Candidate, U.S. House Arizona District 2

U.S. House Arizona District 2
Tenure

2023 - Present

Term ends

2027

Years in position

2

Predecessor

Compensation

Base salary

$174,000

Elections and appointments
Last elected

November 5, 2024

Next election

August 4, 2026

Military

Service / branch

U.S. Navy

Years of service

2001 - 2014

Personal
Birthplace
Tucson, Ariz.
Religion
Christian
Profession
Business owner
Contact

Eli Crane (Republican Party) is a member of the U.S. House, representing Arizona's 2nd Congressional District. He assumed office on January 3, 2023. His current term ends on January 3, 2027.

Crane (Republican Party) is running for re-election to the U.S. House to represent Arizona's 2nd Congressional District. He declared candidacy for the Republican primary scheduled on August 4, 2026.[source]

Biography

Eli Crane was born in Tucson, Arizona in 1980. He attended Arizona Western University and the University of Arizona.[1] Crane served in the United States Navy from 2001 to 2014.[2][3] His career experience includes co-founding and co-owning Bottle Breacher.[4]

Committee assignments

U.S. House

2025-2026

Crane was assigned to the following committees:[Source]

2023-2024

Crane was assigned to the following committees:[Source]


Elections

2026

See also: Arizona's 2nd Congressional District election, 2026

General election

The primary will occur on August 4, 2026. The general election will occur on November 3, 2026. General election candidates will be added here following the primary.

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Arizona District 2

Eric Descheenie and Jonathan Nez are running in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Arizona District 2 on August 4, 2026.


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Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Arizona District 2

Incumbent Eli Crane is running in the Republican primary for U.S. House Arizona District 2 on August 4, 2026.

Candidate
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Eli Crane

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2024

See also: Arizona's 2nd Congressional District election, 2024

Arizona's 2nd Congressional District election, 2024 (July 30 Republican primary)

Arizona's 2nd Congressional District election, 2024 (July 30 Democratic primary)

General election

General election for U.S. House Arizona District 2

Incumbent Eli Crane defeated Jonathan Nez, Richard Ester, David Alexander, and Charles Holt Jr. in the general election for U.S. House Arizona District 2 on November 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Eli Crane
Eli Crane (R)
 
54.5
 
221,413
Image of Jonathan Nez
Jonathan Nez (D)
 
45.5
 
184,963
Image of Richard Ester
Richard Ester (Independent) (Write-in)
 
0.0
 
28
David Alexander (D) (Write-in)
 
0.0
 
22
Charles Holt Jr. (No party preference) (Write-in)
 
0.0
 
5

Total votes: 406,431
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Arizona District 2

Jonathan Nez advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Arizona District 2 on July 30, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Jonathan Nez
Jonathan Nez
 
100.0
 
62,033

Total votes: 62,033
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Arizona District 2

Incumbent Eli Crane defeated Jack Smith in the Republican primary for U.S. House Arizona District 2 on July 30, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Eli Crane
Eli Crane
 
80.5
 
89,480
Image of Jack Smith
Jack Smith
 
19.5
 
21,637

Total votes: 111,117
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Libertarian primary election

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Endorsements

Crane received the following endorsements.

Pledges

Crane signed the following pledges.

  • U.S. Term Limits

2022

See also: Arizona's 2nd Congressional District election, 2022

General election

General election for U.S. House Arizona District 2

Eli Crane defeated incumbent Tom O'Halleran and Chris Sarappo in the general election for U.S. House Arizona District 2 on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Eli Crane
Eli Crane (R) Candidate Connection
 
53.9
 
174,169
Image of Tom O'Halleran
Tom O'Halleran (D)
 
46.1
 
149,151
Image of Chris Sarappo
Chris Sarappo (Independent) (Write-in)
 
0.0
 
76

Total votes: 323,396
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Arizona District 2

Incumbent Tom O'Halleran advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Arizona District 2 on August 2, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Tom O'Halleran
Tom O'Halleran
 
100.0
 
71,391

Total votes: 71,391
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Arizona District 2

The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. House Arizona District 2 on August 2, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Eli Crane
Eli Crane Candidate Connection
 
35.8
 
38,681
Image of Walter Blackman
Walter Blackman
 
24.4
 
26,399
Image of Mark DeLuzio
Mark DeLuzio Candidate Connection
 
17.1
 
18,515
Image of Andy Yates
Andy Yates Candidate Connection
 
6.9
 
7,467
Image of John W. Moore
John W. Moore Candidate Connection
 
6.8
 
7,327
Image of Steven Krystofiak
Steven Krystofiak Candidate Connection
 
5.5
 
5,905
Image of Ron Watkins
Ron Watkins
 
3.5
 
3,810

Total votes: 108,104
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Campaign themes

2026

Ballotpedia survey responses

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2024

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2022

Candidate Connection

Eli Crane completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Crane's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Eli Crane is a combat veteran, small-business owner, husband, father, and native Arizonan. The week after 9/11, Eli joined the Navy. He went on five wartime deployments, three to Iraq with SEAL Team 3, and served our country for 13 years. Today, Eli and his wife Jen own a small business in Tucson. Together they started Bottle Breacher, a successful company featured on Shark Tank, where they landed a deal with Mark Cuban and Kevin O’Leary. Bottle Breacher makes its products in the USA while employing and giving back to veterans nationwide. But Eli’s most important mission to date has been raising his two daughters, Makenzie and Kennedy. He is proud to be raising his family in Arizona and is ready to fight for their future. As someone who has put his life on the line to protect and defend this country and our Constitution, Eli understands that the greatest threat to our freedoms is no longer external – it’s right here at home. Eli is an America First candidate who is pro-life, pro-second amendment, and has the courage to take a stand against cancel culture and the radical left.
Eli is very focused on election integrity and border security. Eli will always stand up for the sanctity of life, the second amendment, and fight back against cancel culture and the radical left.
Eli has signed the term limits pledge.

https://www.termlimits.com/eli-crane-pledges-to-support-term-limits-on-congress/

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Campaign website

Crane's campaign website stated the following:[5]

ELECTION INTEGRITY

  • Eli knows that without fair elections, our Republic cannot be saved.
  • Eli will fearlessly fight for clean elections and will push back aggressively against voter fraud.
  • Arizona and America must reinstate Election Day voting, bolster polling sites, end unregulated mail-out balloting and enact stronger voter ID laws and stiffer penalties for anyone caught harvesting ballots or found guilty of voter fraud.

BORDER SECURITY

  • Eli is the only candidate in this race endorsed by the National Border Patrol Council.
  • As a Navy SEAL in Iraq, Eli stopped terrorists from wreaking havoc. As your Congressman, he will work tirelessly to stop human traffickers, cartel drug dealers and terrorists from entering our southern border.
  • There is an invasion on our southern border. Eli believes it’s time we gained operational control of our borders and empower border patrol agents.

NO VACCINE MANDATES, NO LOCKDOWNS, NO TYRANNY

  • Eli will never support Vaccine Mandates or Mask Mandates. Period.
  • Eli will never stand silent while businesses and schools are shuttered.
  • Eli believes it is every citizen’s personal freedom to decide if they want to get vaccinated. This is fundamental to preserving liberty in the face of tyranny.
  • Eli will fight to ban federal funding for gain-of-function research.

DEFEATING CANCEL CULTURE

  • Eli will fight to ban Critical Race Theory in Arizona’s schools. Our kids should be educated, not indoctrinated.
  • Eli will fight back against Big Tech’s rampant censorship of free speech.
  • Eli is proudly and unflinchingly pro-life and pro-Second Amendment and will never apologize for it.

BRINGING A BUSINESS BACKGROUND TO CONGRESS

  • As a small business owner, Eli cannot just print money. As inflation rates and the national debt skyrocket, Congress continues to spend money we don’t have. This is unacceptable.
  • Eli will fight for lower taxes, less regulation, and pro-growth policies. The more money that Arizonans get to keep in their pockets and the least government involvement, the better.[6]

Campaign finance summary


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Eli Crane campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2026* U.S. House Arizona District 2Candidacy Declared primary$2,410,377 $1,527,726
2024* U.S. House Arizona District 2Won general$8,559,239 $8,308,125
2022U.S. House Arizona District 2Won general$3,779,766 $3,713,510
Grand total$14,749,382 $13,549,361
Sources: OpenSecretsFederal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* Data from this year may not be complete

Notable endorsements

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This section displays endorsements this individual made in elections within Ballotpedia's coverage scope.

Notable candidate endorsements by Eli Crane
EndorseeElectionStageOutcome
Donald Trump  source  (Conservative Party, R) President of the United States (2024) PrimaryWon General
Barry Moore  source  (R) U.S. House Alabama District 1 (2024) PrimaryWon General
J.R. Majewski  source U.S. House Ohio District 9 (2024) PrimaryWithdrew in Primary
Brandon Herrera  source  (R) U.S. House Texas District 23 (2024) PrimaryLost Primary Runoff
Matt Rosendale  source U.S. Senate Montana (2024) PrimaryWithdrew in Primary
Scott Parkinson  source  (R) U.S. Senate Virginia (2024) PrimaryLost Primary

Personal finance disclosures

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Analysis

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119th Congress (2025-2027)

Rankings and scores for the 119th Congress

118th Congress (2023-2025)

Rankings and scores for the 118th Congress



Key votes

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Ballotpedia monitors legislation that receives a vote and highlights the ones that we consider to be key to understanding where elected officials stand on the issues. To read more about how we identify key votes, click here.

Key votes: 118th Congress, 2023-2025

The 118th United States Congress began on January 3, 2023, and ended on January 3, 2025. At the start of the session, Republicans held the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives (222-212), and Democrats held the majority in the U.S. Senate (51-49). Joe Biden (D) was the president and Kamala Harris (D) was the vice president. We identified the key votes below using Congress' top-viewed bills list and through marquee coverage of certain votes on Ballotpedia.

Key votes: 118th Congress, 2023-2025
Vote Bill and description Status
Red x.svg Nay Yes check.svg Passed (310-118)[8]
Yes check.svg Yea Yes check.svg Passed (227-201)[10]
Yes check.svg Yea Yes check.svg Passed (217-215)[12]
Yes check.svg Yea Yes check.svg Passed (328-86)[14]
Yes check.svg Yea Yes check.svg Passed (225-204)[16]
Yes check.svg Yea Yes check.svg Passed (219-200)[18]
Yes check.svg Yea Yes check.svg Passed (229-197)[20]
Red x.svg Nay Yes check.svg Passed (314-117)[22]
Present Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) (216-212)
Yes check.svg Yea Yes check.svg Passed (216-210)[25]
Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) (220-209)
Yes check.svg Yea Yes check.svg Passed (221-212)[28]
Red x.svg Nay Yes check.svg Passed (311-114)[30]
Red x.svg Nay Yes check.svg Passed (327-75)[32]
Yes check.svg Yea Yes check.svg Passed (219-213)[34]
Yes check.svg Yea Yes check.svg Passed (219-211)[36]
Red x.svg Nay Yes check.svg Passed (357-70)[38]
Yes check.svg Yea Yes check.svg Passed (217-199)[40]
Red x.svg Nay Yes check.svg Passed (320-91)[42]
Red x.svg Nay Yes check.svg Passed (387-26)[44]
Yes check.svg Yea Yes check.svg Passed (219-184)[46]
Yes check.svg Yea Yes check.svg Passed (214-213)[48]
Red x.svg Nay Yes check.svg Passed (341-82)[50]


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Footnotes

  1. United States Congress, "CRANE, Eli," accessed June 30, 2025
  2. Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on October 18, 2021
  3. Ballotpedia's Elections Team, “Email communication with Eli Crane campaign team," November 3, 2021
  4. Eli Crane for Congress, "About," accessed December 2, 2022
  5. Eli Crane 2022 campaign website, "Issues," archived July 26, 2022
  6. Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  7. Congress.gov, "H.R.2670 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024," accessed February 23, 2024
  8. Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, "Roll Call 723," December 14, 2023
  9. Congress.gov, "H.R.185 - To terminate the requirement imposed by the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for proof of COVID-19 vaccination for foreign travelers, and for other purposes." accessed February 23, 2024
  10. Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, "Roll Call 116," accessed May 15, 2025
  11. Congress.gov, "H.R.2811 - Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023," accessed February 23, 2024
  12. Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, "Roll Call 199," accessed May 15, 2025
  13. Congress.gov, "H.Con.Res.9 - Denouncing the horrors of socialism." accessed February 23, 2024
  14. Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, "Roll Call 106," accessed May 15, 2025
  15. Congress.gov, "H.R.1 - Lower Energy Costs Act," accessed February 23, 2024
  16. Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, "Roll Call 182," accessed May 15, 2025
  17. Congress.gov, "H.J.Res.30 - Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Labor relating to 'Prudence and Loyalty in Selecting Plan Investments and Exercising Shareholder Rights'." accessed February 23, 2024
  18. Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, "Roll Call 149," accessed May 15, 2025
  19. Congress.gov, "H.J.Res.7 - Relating to a national emergency declared by the President on March 13, 2020." accessed February 23, 2024
  20. Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, "Roll Call 104," accessed May 15, 2025
  21. Congress.gov, "H.R.3746 - Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023," accessed February 23, 2024
  22. Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, "Roll Call 243," accessed May 15, 2025
  23. Congress.gov, "Roll Call 20," accessed February 23, 2024
  24. Congress.gov, "H.Res.757 - Declaring the office of Speaker of the House of Representatives to be vacant.," accessed February 23, 2024
  25. Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, "Roll Call 519," accessed May 15, 2025
  26. Congress.gov, "Roll Call 527," accessed February 23, 2024
  27. Congress.gov, "H.Res.757 - Declaring the office of Speaker of the House of Representatives to be vacant." accessed February 23, 2024
  28. Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, "Roll Call 519," accessed May 15, 2025
  29. Congress.gov, "H.Res.878 - Providing for the expulsion of Representative George Santos from the United States House of Representatives." accessed February 23, 2024
  30. Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, "Roll Call 691," accessed May 15, 2025
  31. Congress.gov, "Social Security Fairness Act of 2023." accessed February 13, 2025
  32. Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, "Roll Call 456," accessed May 15, 2025
  33. Congress.gov, "H.R.2 - Secure the Border Act of 2023," accessed February 13, 2025
  34. Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, "Roll Call 209," accessed May 15, 2025
  35. Congress.gov, "H.R.4366 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024," accessed February 13, 2025
  36. Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, "Roll Call 380," accessed May 15, 2025
  37. Congress.gov, "Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024," accessed February 23, 2024
  38. Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, "Roll Call 30," accessed May 15, 2025
  39. Congress.gov, "H.R.8070 - Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025," accessed February 18, 2025
  40. Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, "Roll Call 279," accessed May 15, 2025
  41. Congress.gov, "H.R.6090 - Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2023," accessed February 13, 2025
  42. Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, "Roll Call 172," accessed May 15, 2025
  43. Congress.gov, "H.R.3935 - FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024," accessed February 13, 2025
  44. Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, "Roll Call 200," accessed May 15, 2025
  45. Congress.gov, "H.R.9495 - Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act," accessed February 13, 2025
  46. Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, "Roll Call 477," accessed May 15, 2025
  47. Congress.gov, "H.Res.863 - Impeaching Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, for high crimes and misdemeanors." accessed February 13, 2025
  48. Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, "Roll Call 43," accessed May 15, 2025
  49. Congress.gov, "H.R.9747 - Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025," accessed February 13, 2025
  50. Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, "Roll Call 450," accessed May 15, 2025

Political offices
Preceded by
Ann Kirkpatrick (D)
U.S. House Arizona District 2
2023-Present
Succeeded by
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Senators
Representatives
District 1
District 2
Eli Crane (R)
District 3
District 4
District 5
District 6
District 7
Vacant
District 8
District 9
Republican Party (6)
Democratic Party (4)
Vacancies (1)