Kammala wannan magana: A shekara ta 2004, Bender ya kasance babban mai tara kudi don yakin neman zaben shugaban kasa na John Kerry. Ya kuma kasance mai goyon bayan farko na
Gasar zaben shugaban kasa ta Barack Obama a shekarar 2008. Kasancewa daga zuriyar yahudawa, a watan Agusta na 2015 ya sanya hannu <unk> a matsayin daya daga cikin mambobi 98 na al'ummar yahudawa na Los Angeles <unk> wata wasika mai budewa da ke goyon bayan yarjejeniyar nukiliya da aka gabatar tsakanin Iran da manyan kasashe shida na duniya da Amurka ke jagoranta "a matsayin mafi kyawun sha'awar Amurka da Isra'ila".