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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

Their congressional 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 significant activity in foreign affairs, particularly related to the Middle East, Russia, and China, as evidenced by his sponsorship of bills like the 'Countering Russia’s War on Faith Act' and the 'Countering China’s Control of the Caucasus Act'. Additionally, he has sponsored education-related legislation, as seen in the 'Less Bureaucracy, Better International Education Oversight Act'. Focus areas (from the record): Foreign Affairs · Education · National Security · International Relations · Labor Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against Wilson's legislative activity, making alignment assessment challenging. What this can't tell you: The absence of declared positions limits understanding of his priorities; No information on the effectiveness of his sponsored bills is available; The record does not reveal any potential unlogged work or informal influence. 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.

Showing 2016. Every tile and chart below reflects this window; some record types (e.g. roll-call votes) only have data for recent years.

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.

Bills sponsored
4

Roll-call data last updated July 20, 2026 · source: Voteview.

Bills sponsored over time

4bills sponsored
4 awaiting status
01234Bills2016: 4 awaiting status42016

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.

Bill success rate

0%
0 of 0 sponsored bills became law

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
609
Yea
446
Nay
129
Present
0
Not voting
34

Full voting record

609 votes
120 of 609
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Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.

Stated positions

No stated positions are on record for this official yet. A stated position is what the official says they believe on an issue — a sourced claim, separate from any assessment of what they did. Know one? Add it with a link to where it was said.

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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