🚨NEW: “Eli Crane Scrubs ‘Forever Wars’ and Spending Pledges He Voted Against from Campaign Website” [Arizona Mirror]

DCCC Spokesperson Lindsay Reilly:
“Eli Crane can’t hide from his broken promises. No amount of shapeshifting can change the fact that Arizonans are feeling the pain of rising costs and six months of the war in Iran. Make no mistake: Crane’s broken promises will cost him his seat this November.”

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Arizona Mirror: Eli Crane scrubs ‘forever wars’ and spending pledges he voted against from campaign website

• A month ago, a section of U.S. Rep. Eli Crane’s campaign website declared that he was opposed to spending money on foreign “forever wars” and vowed to “rein in reckless spending” that was increasing the national debt.
• But Crane, a Republican who represents Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District, has repeatedly voted to allow President Donald Trump to unilaterally go to war with Iran — a conflict now in its seventh month — and he backed Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which slashed taxes on businesses and the wealthy and will increase the national debt by $4.7 trillion. And now, as Republicans head into a midterm election with a historically unpopular GOP president and polling shows he is running neck-and-neck with his Democratic opponent, Crane has scrubbed those priorities from his website.
• “Instead of funding forever wars and throwing away money we don’t have, Eli believes we should be focused on taking care of those who risked it all for our freedom,” Crane’s site said as recently as July under the heading “fighting for those who fought for us.” 
• The new site changes the heading to “fighting for veterans” and removes his opposition to “forever wars” in favor of talking about fighting “fraud-ridden nongovernmental organizations” and declaring that “we should be focused on taking care of those who risked it all for our freedom.” 
• Crane has voted multiple times in favor of the deeply unpopular war that has cost the average American household $1,200 so far. Recent polling found that only a quarter of Americans are supportive of the Iran War, which has seen 18 service members die and more than 750 wounded. 
• A former Navy SEAL, Crane has been outspoken during his time in Congress against spending money to fund overseas wars, regularly zeroing in on U.S. support of Ukraine in its war against Russia, which invaded the American ally in 2022.
• Likewise, Crane’s website no longer features his pledge to “rein in reckless spending” and practice fiscal responsibility. 
• “As a small business owner, Eli knows you can’t just print money. As inflation rates and our national debt skyrockets, Congress continues to spend money we don’t have. This is unacceptable and Eli has consistently gone against the grain, voting to rein in reckless spending,” the website previously read.
• Now, after he voted for the debt-boosting One Big Beautiful Bill, and as inflation continues to rise under Trump, that section of the website has been deleted.
• The old version didn’t mention rural Arizona once, while the new page features sections on protecting rural Arizona land, recovering from natural disasters — like the flood in 2025 that devastated Globe — and helping Arizonans achieve the American Dream.
• Crane was already seen as potentially vulnerable earlier this year, which prompted national GOP leaders to funnel cash into his campaign.