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Joe Wilson

RepublicanJoe Wilson

U.S. Representative · South Carolina

South Carolina's 2nd district

RepublicanFederal

U.S. Representative from South Carolina

0 tracked promises

South Carolina · South Carolina's 2nd district

South Carolina's 2nd district

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How they won their seat

Joe Wilson won the 2024 U.S. House election in South Carolina (District 2) with 59.5% of the vote (211,514 votes).

59.5%
Win share
211,514
Votes for winner
355,285
Total cast
  • Joe Wilson · Republican59.5%
  • David Robinson Ii · Democrat40.2%
  • 1 Other Candidate0.2%

Certified results. Source: MIT Election Data + Science Lab (MEDSL) ↗. A plurality winner can hold under 50% when more than two candidates run.

Inferred legislative agendas

Joe Wilson's record includes sponsorship of foreign affairs bills such as the 'Tunisia Democracy Restoration Act' and the 'Countering Russia’s War on Faith Act'. His committee memberships include roles related to education and workforce issues, and he has sponsored bills like the 'Less Bureaucracy, Better International Education Oversight Act'. Focus areas (from the record): Foreign Affairs · Education · Labor · International Relations · Military Readiness Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. The evidence does not provide a comprehensive comparison of Wilson's legislative activities and voting patterns against declared positions or tracked promises. What this can't tell you: The politician's specific motives or intentions behind the sponsored bills; The effectiveness of the sponsored bills, as none became law; Any unlogged work or informal activities that may influence his legislative focus. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).

Inferred, not stated. Joe Wilson has not necessarily stated these as goals. This is an AI-generated, nonpartisan reading of the patterns in their verified record — sponsored legislation, committee work, roll-call votes, and campaign-finance composition — and how those patterns compare to any declared positions and tracked promises. It describes what the record emphasizes, never imputes motive, and is run through an adversarial review pass that scrubs bias, loaded language, and any claim the evidence doesn’t support. It is not a quote, a claim they made, or a rating; every underlying item is sourced in the verified record below; and it never affects the Integrity Score.

Activity in office

What Joe Wilson has actually done in office — sourced from official roll-call and government records, shown in full below. These are facts, separate from tracked promises and never folded into any score. The tracked-positions tile counts sourced stated positions — claims about what they believe, not conduct — and is likewise never scored.

Roll-call data last updated September 7, 2026 · source: Voteview.

Monthly voting activity

  • Yea
  • Nay
  • Total
016324864VotesSep '25: 51 YeaSep '25: 13 NaySep '25Nov '25: 20 YeaNov '25: 3 NayNov '25Dec '25: 27 YeaDec '25: 15 NayDec '25Jan '26: 33 YeaJan '26: 14 NayJan '26Feb '26: 21 YeaFeb '26: 8 NayFeb '26Mar '26: 19 YeaMar '26: 6 NayMar '26Apr '26: 34 YeaApr '26: 13 NayApr '26May '26: 28 YeaMay '26: 8 NayMay '26Jun '26: 30 YeaJun '26: 10 NayJun '26Jul '26: 31 YeaJul '26: 17 NayJul '26Aug '26: 2 YeaAug '26: 0 NayAug '26Sep '26: 8 YeaSep '26: 1 NaySep '26Sep '25: 64 totalNov '25: 23 totalDec '25: 57 totalJan '26: 47 totalFeb '26: 30 totalMar '26: 30 totalApr '26: 47 totalMay '26: 36 totalJun '26: 42 totalJul '26: 50 totalAug '26: 2 totalSep '26: 10 total
Measures voted on:492 passed162 failed1 procedural/other

Roll-call votes per month — most recent on file. Source: Voteview.

Vote attendance

94.4%
attendance
618 of 655 roll calls37 missed
Monthly participation rate
025507510090%Sep 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Aug 26Sep 26

Share of roll calls participated in — most recent votes on file. Source: Voteview.

Bills sponsored over time

335bills sponsored
2 passed a chamber55 pending278 awaiting status
013253850Bills2002: 16 awaiting status1620022003: 29 awaiting status2920032004: 17 awaiting status1720042005: 24 awaiting status2420052006: 6 awaiting status620062007: 29 awaiting status2920072008: 5 awaiting status520082009: 20 awaiting status2020092010: 5 awaiting status520102011: 11 awaiting status1120112012: 21 awaiting status2120122013: 6 awaiting status620132014: 1 awaiting status120142015: 8 awaiting status820152016: 4 awaiting status420162017: 19 awaiting status1920172018: 9 awaiting status920182019: 15 awaiting status1520192020: 7 awaiting status720202021: 13 awaiting status1320212022: 13 awaiting status1320222023: 1 passed a chamber, 23 pending2023: 1 passed a chamber, 23 pending2420232024: 2 pending220242025: 19 pending1920252026: 1 passed a chamber, 11 pending2026: 1 passed a chamber, 11 pending122026

Bills sponsored per year, stacked by outcome (latest action). Outcome data covers the 118th–119th Congresses; earlier years show as “awaiting status” until enriched. Source: Congress.gov.

Independence

2%
Votes against own party
12 of 618 recent votes

How often they break with their party’s majority — neither good nor bad, just the record.

Most recent roll-call votes on file. Source: Voteview.

Bill success rate

0%
0 of 57 sponsored bills became law
2 passed a chamber55 pending

Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.

Campaign finance over time

$0
Cash on hand · 2026
$1.0M
Raised, 20262026
RaisedSpentCash on hand
$0$500K$1M$1.5M$2M2026: raised $1.0M2026: spent $1.0M20262026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $189K (19%)19%Large individual (itemized): $367K (38%)38%PAC / committee: $416K (43%)43%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$189K19%
  • Large individual (itemized)$367K38%
  • PAC / committee$416K43%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Committee memberships

Voting record

Total votes
655
Yea
478
Nay
140
Present
0
Not voting
37

Full voting record

655 votes
  • HR4795Not voting
  • S32Yea
  • S307Yea
120 of 655
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Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.

Positions on record

1 position on record

The record on this issue — recorded votes this official cast, and sourced claims about what they believe. Each is labelled with which it is, because a vote is what someone did and a statement is what they said. Neither is scored, and neither affects the Integrity Score.

  • Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyRecorded vote

    On record voting AYE on Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 1 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act, an amendment to prohibit warrantless searches of United States persons' communications in the FISA Section 702 database, with exceptions for imminent threats to life or bodily harm, consent searches, and known cybersecurity threat signatures. The amendment failed on a 212 to 212 tie.

    SourcesHouse Roll Call Vote 114, 118th Congress, 2nd Session: On Agreeing to the Amendment, Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 1 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act. Failed by recorded vote, 212 ayes to 212 noes, April 12, 2024.
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Disclosure
No undisclosed priorities on record

Disclosure

A separate measure from the promise scorecard above. It tracks confirmed cases where this official has acted on or championed an issue that already existed when they ran, but which they did not disclose as a priority in their campaign. Each case meets a high evidence bar — three independent sources — and the score is shown alongside the Integrity Score, never merged into it. How this is measured.

No undisclosed priorities on record. This is not a clean-audit claim — it means none have been confirmed for this official.

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