Policy criticism
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50%
of itemized money from South Carolina donors, in the bottom tenth of State Senate Republicans
50% of the itemized money from individuals in the 2026 cycle came from donors with an address in South Carolina. Ranks 786th of 860, where 1st is the highest share. 4 itemized donors.
Only donors who give more than $200 are reported with an address, so this is the share of that itemized money from donors living in South Carolina, ranked among State Senate Republicans. Small gifts are not counted either way. Candidates running statewide or for federal office often draw more money from out of state.
At a glance
6 measures against State Senate Republicans. 63% of the 101 bills Climer sponsored got out of committee, in the bottom quarter of the South Carolina Senate. Climer reported $9,000 in the 2026 cycle, in the bottom quarter of State Senate Republicans (median $46.2K).
The measures on which Climer sits furthest from the middle of State Senate Republicans, each against the same group, with the CSIP score when there is one. Every number is explained in its own section below.
From South Carolina, 2026
50%
Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 786th of 860 State Senate Republicans
Out of committee
63%
South Carolina Senate average 73% · ranks 41st of 46
Itemized, 2026
$9,000
State Senate Republicans’ median $46.2K · ranks 763rd of 936
CSIP ideology
+0.56
More conservative than 79% of State Senate Republicans · ± 0.03
Attendance
98.1%
South Carolina Senate average 92.7% · ranks 13th of 46 · 695 roll calls
Party unity
92.4%
South Carolina Senate average 84% · ranks 15th of 46 · 43 votes against the majority of South Carolina Senate Republicans
Peer group: State Senate Republicans. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; the thick bar is Climer, the thin grey bar the peer average. The headline is the measure on which Climer is most unusual among peers (Methods, §08).
What Climer says
Climer stresses bipartisanship less than 63% of State Senate Republicans. Bipartisanship in 0.7% of 139 statements, against 2.3% for the average State Senate Republican; 226th of 354.
An AI model reads each of Climer’s 139 statements in the SC 2025–26 session (139 posts on X) and marks the kinds of statement it contains: a personal attack, criticism of a policy, discussion of policy, bipartisanship, credit claiming, and extreme labels. A statement can carry several. Every rate is compared with the average for State Senate Republicans and ranked among them.
Kinds of statement
Share of statements carrying each label, the SC 2025–26 session
0%80%
Climer
Peers
Rank
Policy discussion64 statements
46%
37%
117th of 354
Policy criticism32 statements
23%
9%
39th of 354
Credit claiming20 statements
14%
15%
164th of 354
Personal attacks5 statements
4%
2%
83rd of 354
Bipartisanship1 statements
1%
2%
226th of 354
Show the data
| Row | Climer | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Policy discussion | 46% | 37% |
| Policy criticism | 23% | 9% |
| Credit claiming | 14% | 15% |
| Personal attacks | 4% | 2% |
| Bipartisanship | 1% | 2% |
139
statements classified
139 posts on X.
Show the data
| Part | Value |
|---|---|
| posts on X | 139 |
How to read the bars
The thick bar is Climer; the thin grey bar is the average State Senate Republicans. A longer thick bar means Climer does this more than peers. Rank 1 is the highest rate in the group.
Extreme labels
Climer used extreme labels in 5.0% of statements, 4.0 times the peer average. 7 statements, most often aimed at America First agenda; peers 1.3%.
- “radical”2
- “woke”1
Who gets the labels
Targets named alongside an extreme label, by number of statements
- America First agenda2
- big banks1
- foreign-affiliated groups1
- Left1
- leftist1
What an extreme label is
Calls a politician, a party or a policy “far left”, “far right”, “MAGA”, “extreme”, “radical”, “woke”, “fascist” or “communist”. The target is who or what the label was aimed at. The lists show the five most used labels and targets; the toggle shows the rest.
Month by month
Share of statements per month, the SC 2025–26 session
Show the data
| Column | Statements | Personal attacks | Policy criticism | Policy discussion | Bipartisanship | Credit claiming | Extreme labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan ’25 | 0 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Feb ’25 | 1 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Mar ’25 | 3 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Apr ’25 | 0 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| May ’25 | 0 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Jun ’25 | 20 | 5.0% | 35.0% | 50.0% | 0.0% | 10.0% | 0.0% |
| Jul ’25 | 13 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 23.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Aug ’25 | 27 | 3.7% | 22.2% | 40.7% | 0.0% | 11.1% | 11.1% |
| Sep ’25 | 9 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Oct ’25 | 9 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Nov ’25 | 6 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Dec ’25 | 4 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Jan ’26 | 16 | 0.0% | 43.8% | 75.0% | 0.0% | 25.0% | 0.0% |
| Feb ’26 | 9 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Mar ’26 | 12 | 0.0% | 8.3% | 50.0% | 0.0% | 41.7% | 8.3% |
| Apr ’26 | 3 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| May ’26 | 1 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Jun ’26 | 3 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Jul ’26 | 0 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Aug ’26 | 2 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Sep ’26 | 1 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Oct ’26 | 0 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
How to read the strips
Each row is one kind of statement; each cell is a month, shaded against that row’s own peak (darker = closer to the peak), with the peak and the latest value written at the right. The top row counts statements. The strip covers every month of the SC 2025–26 session, the same span as the rates above, including months with no statements. A month with fewer than 10 statements is hatched, not shaded: one or two posts would swing its rate to 0% or 100%. 17 months are hatched here; 5 of them have no statements.
In Climer’s words
Real statements from the classifier’s example set, with the labels it assigned
Bipartisanship
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Jun 9, 2026 · Posts on X (state legislators) · bipartisanship · Source
Extreme label
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Mar 26, 2026 · Posts on X (state legislators) · policy discussion; credit claiming; Crime and Law Enforcement; extreme label “radical” aimed at foreign-affiliated groups · Source
Examples by category
Up to five recent statements in each category
Overtly questions a named person’s character, integrity or loyalty, or calls them names. Criticising a record or a policy does not count.
Posts on X (state legislators)
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personal attacks · target: John KingSource
Posts on X (state legislators)
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personal attacks · target: unspecifiedSource
Posts on X (state legislators)
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personal attacks · target: JimmySource
Posts on X (state legislators)
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personal attacks · policy discussion · credit claiming · Government Operations and PoliticsSource
Posts on X (state legislators)
The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.
personal attacks · target: ZelenskyySource
All 139 statements
Newest first, the SC 2025–26 session
The full feed
Five statements at a time, newest first; filters apply to the statements loaded so far. Export saves the statements that match. Sources: 139 posts on X.
Policy
Government Operations and Politics is what Climer talks about most: 31% of policy statements, 1.9 times the peer share. Talk and legislation agree at 0.49 on a 0–1 scale (State Senate Republicans average 0.52; 141st of 226).
Each policy statement is tagged by the AI model with one or more of 25 policy areas from the Congressional Research Service list, so the shares say what Climer talks about. The bills Climer sponsors and cosponsors carry the same areas, so the two can be compared.
What Climer talks about
Share of policy statements by area, the SC 2025–26 session
0%35%
Climer
Peers
Government Operations and Politics20 statements
31%
17%
Economics and Public Finance17 statements
27%
12%
Crime and Law Enforcement7 statements
11%
12%
Armed Forces and National Security6 statements
9%
6%
Law6 statements
9%
4%
Show the data
| Row | Climer | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Government Operations and Politics | 31% | 17% |
| Economics and Public Finance | 27% | 12% |
| Crime and Law Enforcement | 11% | 12% |
| Armed Forces and National Security | 9% | 6% |
| Law | 9% | 4% |
How to read the bars
The thick bar is the share of Climer’s policy statements in an area; the thin grey bar is the average share for State Senate Republicans. A statement counts once in each of its areas, so shares can add to more than 100%. The five largest areas are shown; the toggle shows the rest.
Talks about · legislates on
Left: share of statements by policy area. Right: share of bills. Areas in order of their share of statements; both sides run from 0 to 35%. Grey ticks are the State Senate Republicans averages.
Show the data
| Area | Talks about | State Senate Republicans, talks about | Legislates on | State Senate Republicans, legislates on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Government Operations and Politics | 31% | 17% | 15% | 12% |
| Economics and Public Finance | 27% | 12% | 2% | 3% |
| Crime and Law Enforcement | 11% | 12% | 11% | 10% |
| Armed Forces and National Security | 9% | 6% | 0% | 2% |
| Law | 9% | 4% | 9% | 4% |
0.49
talk-to-bills agreement, 0 to 1
State Senate Republicans average 0.52. Ranks 141st of 226.
What agreement means, and what it doesn’t
Agreement is 1 minus the distance between the two distributions (Jensen–Shannon): 1 means Climer legislates on exactly the areas Climer talks about, in the same proportions; 0 means no overlap. It does not say whether the bills match the positions in the statements, only the subjects. Bills Climer sponsored count fully, cosponsored bills a quarter. Shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
Ideology
Climer sits at +0.56 on the CSIP scale, right of 0, more conservative than 79% of State Senate Republicans. Approximate range +0.53 to +0.60, which understates the uncertainty; from 491 donors and 985 roll calls.
CSIP, the lab’s Common-Space Ideal Point, places every official, federal and state, on one left–right scale, estimated from roll-call votes, who gives money to whom, and the text of statements. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it; 0 is the centre of the scale, not a definition of “moderate”.
+0.56
CSIP ideal point
Approximate range +0.53 to +0.60. From 491 donors and 985 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.
The outlined dot is Climer, coloured by its side of 0 (blue left, red right, deeper further out); the bar through it is the approximate range (±1.96 standard errors), which understates the uncertainty; the grey ticks below are the medians of Climer’s groups. 0 is the centre of the scale, not “moderate” by definition.
What this means, and what it doesn’t
The score summarises how an official votes, who funds them and how they talk, relative to everyone else. It does not grade positions as good or bad, and two officials with the same score can differ on any single issue. The ± range is 1.96 standard errors, which understates the uncertainty: scores whose ranges overlap may not differ at all, and even scores whose ranges do not overlap may not differ.
Where Climer sits
Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale
State Senate Republicans1,083 · median +0.4
South Carolina Senate46 · median +0.3
All State Senate1,909 · median +0.1
Show the data
| Group | Officials | Median | Share left of Climer |
|---|---|---|---|
| State Senate Republicans | 1083 | +0.4 | 79% |
| South Carolina Senate | 46 | +0.3 | 78% |
| All State Senate | 1909 | +0.1 | 88% |
How to read the strips
Every small dot is one official on the same scale, coloured by its own score (blue left of 0, red right of 0, grey at 0, deeper further out) and spread up and down only to keep dots apart; where a group is crowded the dots overlap, and darker patches mean more officials. The large outlined dot is Climer in every row; the rule is each group’s median. The table under the figure gives the share of each group to the left of Climer.
Money
Climer reported $9,000 in the 2026 cycle, 19% of the State Senate Republicans’ median of $46.2K. State filings report no small-donation total. 50% of itemized individual money came from South Carolina.
Campaign money from state campaign-finance filings, as aggregates only; the lab never shows an individual donor. Campaigns must report by name every person who gives them more than $200 in a cycle (“itemized”); smaller gifts are reported only as one total (“unitemized”), so donor counts, donor states, employers and occupations describe itemized donors only. State filings report no small-gift total, so these figures add up itemized contributions only.
$9,000
itemized in the 2026 cycle
From 4 itemized donors. State Senate Republicans’ median $46.2K.
Where the money came from
Each square is one percent of itemized contributions in the 2026 cycle.
- Individuals (itemized)33 squares$3,000
- PACs and other committees67 squares$6,000
Show the data
| Source | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Individuals (itemized) | $3,000 | 33.3% |
| PACs and other committees | $6,000 | 66.7% |
What this means, and what it doesn’t
Totals say how much a campaign took in, not how it was spent, and they rise sharply when a seat is up for election; compare cycles with that in mind.
Receipts by cycle
Itemized contributions, 2020 to 2026. The grey line is the State Senate Republicans’ median for 2026.
Show the data
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| 2020 cycle | $91.0K |
| 2022 cycle | $21.4K |
| 2024 cycle | $22.9K |
| 2026 cycle | $9,000 |
Top donor states, 2026
Itemized contributions by donor state. 50% came from South Carolina.
- South Carolina$1,500
- Kentucky$1,000
- Pennsylvania$500
Small donations
State filings report no total for small gifts.
Not reported in state filings.
Where itemized donors live
Individuals who gave more than $200, by donor state
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| State | Value |
|---|---|
| South Carolina | $1,500 |
| Kentucky | $1,000 |
| Pennsylvania | $500 |
| Alaska | No data |
| Maine | No data |
| Vermont | No data |
| New Hampshire | No data |
| Washington | No data |
| Idaho | No data |
| Montana | No data |
| North Dakota | No data |
| Minnesota | No data |
| Illinois | No data |
| Wisconsin | No data |
| Michigan | No data |
| New York | No data |
| Rhode Island | No data |
| Massachusetts | No data |
| Oregon | No data |
| Nevada | No data |
| Wyoming | No data |
| South Dakota | No data |
| Iowa | No data |
| Indiana | No data |
| Ohio | No data |
| New Jersey | No data |
| Connecticut | No data |
| California | No data |
| Utah | No data |
| Colorado | No data |
| Nebraska | No data |
| Missouri | No data |
| West Virginia | No data |
| Virginia | No data |
| Maryland | No data |
| Delaware | No data |
| Arizona | No data |
| New Mexico | No data |
| Kansas | No data |
| Arkansas | No data |
| Tennessee | No data |
| North Carolina | No data |
| District of Columbia | No data |
| Oklahoma | No data |
| Louisiana | No data |
| Mississippi | No data |
| Alabama | No data |
| Georgia | No data |
| Hawaii | No data |
| Texas | No data |
| Florida | No data |
4
itemized donors
People who gave more than $200
50%
from South Carolina
Of itemized individual dollars
How to read the map
Every state the same size. Darker states gave more itemized money; hatched states had no itemized donors; the outlined state is South Carolina. Gifts of $200 or less carry no address and are left out.
Top donor occupations
Itemized, 2026 cycle.
No occupations reported.
Top committees
PAC and committee contributions, 2026 cycle.
- CUPAC OF SC$1,000
- ENTERPRISE HOLDINGS, INC PAC$1,000
- NELSON MULLINS RILEY & SCARBOROUGH STATE/LOCAL PAC$1,000
- SC RETAIL ASSOC. PAC$1,000
- STAND FOR AMERICA PAC$1,000
Top employers
Itemized, 2026 cycle.
No employers reported.
Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.
Votes
Climer voted with the majority of South Carolina Senate Republicans on 92.4% of party-line votes and missed 1.9% of 695 roll calls. South Carolina Senate on average: 84% party unity, 92.7% attendance. Across all roll calls, Climer voted against the majority of South Carolina Senate Republicans 43 times.
695 roll calls Climer could vote on in the SC 2025–26 session, compared with South Carolina Senate. Attendance is the share with a vote recorded. Party unity counts only party-line roll calls, where most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides, and is the share of those where Climer voted with the majority of South Carolina Senate Republicans. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.
43
votes against the majority of South Carolina Senate Republicans
Party unity 92.4%, South Carolina Senate average 84%, ranks 15th of 46. 695 roll calls in the SC 2025–26 session.
Attendance and party unity
The thick bar is Climer, the thin grey bar the South Carolina Senate average. The scale runs from 80% to 100% to show the gap.
80%100%
Climer
Peers
Rank
Attendance
98.1%
92.7%
13th of 46
Party unity
92.4%
84%
15th of 46
Show the data
| Row | Climer | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 98.1% | 92.7% |
| Party unity | 92.4% | 84% |
What this means, and what it doesn’t
A missed roll call has many causes, from illness to campaigning, so attendance says how often, not why. A vote against the majority can be on procedure as well as substance, and many fall on roll calls where both parties split; the key votes below show the ones that decided something.
Key votes
25 roll calls the lab flagged as key in the SC 2025–26 session
| Party split (yea–nay) | Why it’s key | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2026 | Yea | With majority | pass | D 9–1 · R 27–1Democrats 9 yea, 1 nay; Republicans 27 yea, 1 nay | became law · party crossover | |
| Jun 25, 2026 | Yea | With majority | pass | D 11–0 · R 27–0Democrats 11 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 27 yea, 0 nay | became law | |
| Jun 25, 2026 | Yea | With majority | pass | D 12–0 · R 28–0Democrats 12 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 28 yea, 0 nay | became law | |
| Jun 25, 2026 | Yea | With majority | fail | D 2–9 · R 21–4Democrats 2 yea, 9 nay; Republicans 21 yea, 4 nay | party crossover | |
| Jun 25, 2026 | Yea | With majority | pass | D 11–0 · R 27–0Democrats 11 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 27 yea, 0 nay | became law |
How key votes are chosen
Automatically: a final-passage or override vote where the measure became law, the margin was under 10%, at least 10% of either party voted against its majority, or the bill was among the 25 most mentioned in officials’ own statements. Up to 25 per window, most recent first; five are shown. Bars show yea on the left, nay on the right, per party.
Votes most often with
The colleagues who voted the same way as Climer most often
- Mike ReichenbachR669 shared votes95%
- Roger NuttR292 shared votes94%
- Rex RiceR682 shared votes94%
- Josh KimbrellR590 shared votes94%
- Michael JohnsonR555 shared votes94%
Votes least often with
The colleagues who voted the same way as Climer least often
- Lee BrightR373 shared votes61%
- Margie Bright MatthewsD549 shared votes66%
- Ed SuttonD564 shared votes81%
- Deon TedderD614 shared votes82%
- Tom FernandezR527 shared votes82%
How to read the agreement lists
The share of roll calls both members voted on where they voted the same way, among colleagues sharing at least 50 such votes. High agreement with members of the other party is common on routine votes.
Full voting record
SC 2025–26 session, loads in batches
Legislation
Climer sponsored 101 bills in the SC 2025–26 session; 6 became law. Cosponsored 0 others. 63% of sponsored bills got out of committee (South Carolina Senate average 73%; 41st of 46).
The bills Climer sponsored and cosponsored in the SC 2025–26 session, from the official bill records, and how far each got: introduced, referred to or acted on in committee, passed one chamber, passed both, became law. A bill counts at every stage it has reached, so the blocks only shrink to the right.
Bills by stage
Counts for the SC 2025–26 session
Show the data
| Role | Introduced | In committee | Passed one chamber | Passed both chambers | Became law |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sponsored | 101 | 101 | 64 | 19 | 6 |
| Cosponsored | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
How to read the blocks
Ink blocks are bills Climer sponsored, ochre blocks bills Climer cosponsored; the figure above each block is the count. Most bills in any legislature never leave committee, so a short staircase is the norm.
63%
of sponsored bills got out of committee
South Carolina Senate average 73%. Ranks 41st of 46.
Cosponsorship partners
Colleagues who most often cosponsor with Climer, by number of shared bills in the SC 2025–26 session; the square shows their party.
- Jeff Zell21
- Michael Johnson20
- Ross Turner17
- Rex Rice17
- Matt Leber16
What this means, and what it doesn’t
The score is the share of sponsored bills that a committee reported out or a chamber passed, with at least 5 sponsored bills, ranked within the peer group. Members of the majority party and committee chairs move more bills, so the rank reflects position in the chamber as well as effort. Cosponsorship partners are the five colleagues who share the most of Climer’s bills; the toggle shows more.
Bill list
Sponsored and cosponsored, with status and policy area; five are shown, the toggle shows the rest
| S 1196 | Camp Thunderbird | Sponsor | May 14, 2026 | Passed one chamber | Unassigned | Introduced and adopted May 14, 2026 |
| S 1190 | Lung Cancer Awareness Month | Sponsor | May 12, 2026 | Passed both chambers | Unassigned | Introduced, adopted, returned with concurrence May 13, 2026 |
| S 1187 | EMS Week in SC | Sponsor | May 7, 2026 | Passed both chambers | Unassigned | Introduced, adopted, returned with concurrence May 13, 2026 |
| S 1161 | Clemson Livestock-Poultry Health | Sponsor | Apr 30, 2026 | Passed one chamber | Unassigned | Introduced and adopted Apr 30, 2026 |
| S 1133 | Lonnie Hosey Purple Heart Highway | Sponsor | Apr 21, 2026 | Passed both chambers | Unassigned | Adopted, returned to Senate with concurrence May 7, 2026 |
Online
A site that has not changed in 90 days. Climer’s official site had 1 page when last crawled on Oct 1, 2026.
The lab crawls Climer’s official and campaign websites (weekly for Congress, monthly for the states) and keeps every page’s text, so changes can be read later; it also records social accounts and describes the images Climer posts with a vision model.
Websites
- 1
pages crawled
0changes in 90 days
- 18
pages crawled
10changes in 90 days
How to read the counts
“Pages crawled” is the size of the site at the last crawl; “changes in 90 days” counts pages whose text differed from the previous crawl. Sites change for many routine reasons, such as new press releases, so a high count is not by itself notable.
Social accounts
- XWesClimer
- Facebookwww.facebook.com/wesclimersc
- Facebookwww.facebook.com/wes.climer.9
- Instagramwww.instagram.com/wesclimer/
- Emailwesclimer@scsenate.gov
Images Climer posted
No images from Climer’s posts have been described.
About the descriptions
Written by a vision model and may be wrong. Open the post to see the original. Five are shown; the toggle shows the rest.
State floor speeches
No transcribed state floor speeches are matched to this legislator yet.
Floor speeches
Transcribed from chamber video or captions by the lab. They are not classified for kinds of statement.
Methods and sources
How this page was made. Profile built Oct 28, 2026; site last built Oct 28, 2026. Every number on the page is computed from the sources listed here, by the same rules for every official; nothing is written by hand.
The headline
The headline is the measure on which Climer is most unusual among State Senate Republicans, chosen by one rule for every official of every party. The candidates are the rate of each kind of statement and of extreme labels, party unity, attendance, the small-donor share, the in-state share and total receipts of the latest cycle, the share of sponsored bills that got out of committee, talk-to-bills agreement, and the CSIP score’s place within the party group.
The builder ranks every measure within the same peer group the page compares it with, and writes each official’s percentile: the share of the group below the value, ties counting half, so 0.5 is the median and a value shared by many never ranks first. A measure’s score is how far that percentile sits from the median (0 in the middle, 0.5 at either end), and the highest score leads if it is above 0.25, outside the middle half of the group. Scores within 0.03 of each other are a tie, broken in this order: votes against the party majority, kinds of statement, ideology, roll calls missed, small donations, in-state money, legislation, agreement, extreme labels, receipts.
A measure counts only with at least 200 statements, 100 roll calls or 5 sponsored bills behind it and a peer group of at least 10. Two things never lead: high party unity or attendance, where most members sit, and a high rate of a kind of statement backed by fewer than 10 statements. When nothing qualifies, the headline is a neutral fact instead: statements classified, or years in office. The wording always names the direction (“in the bottom 5% of …”, “votes against the majority of …”).
Identifiers
- Profile id
- cccdb27c-0ed3-4d26-b2e1-5dd7c94e79ab
- Open States
- ocd-person/cccdb27c-0ed3-4d26-b2e1-5dd7c94e79ab
Bulk files with the same data for every official:
Freshness of this profile’s data
- What politicians sayOct 27, 20261 days agoMembers of Congress: tweets since 2017; press releases, newsletters and floor speeches since 2022. State legislators: tweets since May 2024. Governors: tweets since January 2025. Labels from an LLM classifier.
- Roll calls (state)Oct 21, 20267 days agoOpen States floor roll calls, 2019 on (none for AK and MO).
- Bills (state)Oct 28, 2026todayOpen States bills and sponsors, 2019 on; stages from roll calls.
- Campaign money (state)no dateState campaign-finance agencies, 2019 on; aggregates only.
- Ideology (CSIP)Oct 25, 20263 days agoCommon-Space Ideal Points (CSIP), current validated run.
- WebsitesOct 25, 20263 days agoWeekly crawls of federal sites since April 2026; monthly state crawls since June 2026.
- State floor speechesOct 21, 20267 days agoState floor speech turns (published transcripts and captions), 2020 on; not LLM-classified.
How the measures work
- What politicians say
- Every post, press release, newsletter and congressional floor speech is read by a language model and marked for personal attacks, policy criticism, policy discussion, bipartisanship and credit claiming. A statement can be in several. Rates are shares of statements in the window. The methods paper.
- Extreme labels
- A statement has an extreme label when it calls a politician, party or policy “far left”, “far right”, “MAGA”, “extreme”, “radical”, “woke”, “fascist” or “communist”. The target is who the label is aimed at.
- Policy areas and agreement
- Statements and bills share 25 Congressional Research Service policy areas (state bills are assigned by a language model). Agreement is 1 − Jensen–Shannon distance between the two distributions, shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
- Ideology (CSIP)
- Common-Space Ideal Points place federal and state officials on one left–right scale, estimated jointly from roll calls, campaign contributions and the text of statements, with standard errors. Only a validated run is shown. The methods paper.
- Campaign money
- Campaigns report by name only donors who give more than $200 in a cycle; smaller gifts are reported as one total. Federal totals and the small-donor share come from the FEC’s financial summaries of each campaign committee. Donor counts, donor states, employers and occupations cover itemized donors only. State filings report no small-gift totals, so state figures are itemized only. The lab never publishes donor names.
- Votes and key votes
- Attendance, party unity and the count of votes against the majority of an official’s own party come from roll calls (Voteview for Congress, chamber records for the states). Key votes are final-passage or override votes that became law, were decided by under 10%, saw at least 10% of a party vote against its majority, or concerned one of the 25 bills most mentioned in officials’ statements.
- Peers and ranks
- Comparisons are with the same party, chamber and level (for example House Democrats); state legislators are compared within their state and chamber for votes. Every comparison names its group. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; tied values share the average of their ranks, and the percentile is the share of the group below the value, ties counting half.
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