Credit claiming
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Party unity 78%, in the bottom quarter of the Michigan Senate (average 92.6%). 523 roll calls in the MI 2025–26 session.
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 Victory voted with the majority of Michigan Senate Republicans; it is ranked within the Michigan Senate. The count covers every roll call where Victory voted opposite that majority.
6 measures against State Senate Republicans. 100% of Victory’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from Michigan, in the top quarter of State Senate Republicans. 16% of the 31 bills Victory sponsored got out of committee, in the bottom quarter of the Michigan Senate.
The measures on which Victory 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.
Party unity
Michigan Senate average 92.6% · ranks 33rd of 37 · 51 votes against the majority of Michigan Senate Republicans
From Michigan, 2026
Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 136th of 860 State Senate Republicans
Out of committee
Michigan Senate average 38% · ranks 33rd of 38
Bipartisanship
State Senate Republicans average 2.3% · ranks 62nd of 354
Attendance
Michigan Senate average 95.5% · ranks 29th of 37 · 523 roll calls
CSIP ideology
Right of 0, the centre of the scale · ± 0.03
Peer group: State Senate Republicans. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; the thick bar is Victory, the thin grey bar the peer average. The headline is the measure on which Victory is most unusual among peers (Methods, §08).
Victory attacks opponents personally less than 76% of State Senate Republicans. Personal attacks in 0% of 234 statements, against 2.3% for the average State Senate Republican; 272nd of 354.
An AI model reads each of Victory’s 234 statements in the MI 2025–26 session (234 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.
Share of statements carrying each label, the MI 2025–26 session
| Row | Victory | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Policy discussion | 38% | 37% |
| Credit claiming | 18% | 15% |
| Policy criticism | 4% | 9% |
| Bipartisanship | 4% | 2% |
| Personal attacks | 0% | 2% |
statements classified
234 posts on X.
| Part | Value |
|---|---|
| posts on X | 234 |
The thick bar is Victory; the thin grey bar is the average State Senate Republicans. A longer thick bar means Victory does this more than peers. Rank 1 is the highest rate in the group.
Victory used no extreme labels in 234 statements. The peer average is 1.3%.
No extreme labels in this window.
Targets named alongside an extreme label, by number of statements
No targets recorded.
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.
Share of statements per month, the MI 2025–26 session
| Column | Statements | Personal attacks | Policy criticism | Policy discussion | Bipartisanship | Credit claiming | Extreme labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan ’25 | 7 | — (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 | 15 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 40.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Mar ’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) |
| Apr ’25 | 14 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 57.1% | 0.0% | 35.7% | 0.0% |
| May ’25 | 18 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 38.9% | 0.0% | 22.2% | 0.0% |
| Jun ’25 | 23 | 0.0% | 4.3% | 39.1% | 4.3% | 26.1% | 0.0% |
| Jul ’25 | 30 | 0.0% | 10.0% | 36.7% | 0.0% | 20.0% | 0.0% |
| Aug ’25 | 12 | 0.0% | 16.7% | 50.0% | 8.3% | 16.7% | 0.0% |
| Sep ’25 | 12 | 0.0% | 25.0% | 33.3% | 16.7% | 16.7% | 0.0% |
| Oct ’25 | 20 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 45.0% | 15.0% | 30.0% | 0.0% |
| Nov ’25 | 15 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 26.7% | 0.0% | 6.7% | 0.0% |
| 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 | 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) |
| Feb ’26 | 5 | — (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 | 7 | — (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 ’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 | 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) |
| Jun ’26 | 5 | — (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 | 13 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 30.8% | 7.7% | 15.4% | 0.0% |
| Aug ’26 | 8 | — (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 | 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) |
| Oct ’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) |
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 MI 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%. 12 months are hatched here; 1 of them have no statements.
Real statements from the classifier’s example set, with the labels it assigned
Credit claiming
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Bipartisanship
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Jul 9, 2026 · Posts on X (state legislators) · policy discussion; bipartisanship; credit claiming; Agriculture and Food · Source
Policy criticism
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Jun 25, 2026 · Posts on X (state legislators) · policy criticism; policy discussion; credit claiming; Economics and Public Finance; Taxation · Source
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.
No statements in this category in this window.
Newest first, the MI 2025–26 session
Five statements at a time, newest first; filters apply to the statements loaded so far. Export saves the statements that match. Sources: 234 posts on X.
Agriculture and Food is what Victory talks about most: 30% of policy statements, 4.8 times the peer share. Talk and legislation agree at 0.56 on a 0–1 scale (State Senate Republicans average 0.52; 94th 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 Victory talks about. The bills Victory sponsors and cosponsors carry the same areas, so the two can be compared.
Share of policy statements by area, the MI 2025–26 session
| Row | Victory | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture and Food | 30% | 6% |
| Economics and Public Finance | 16% | 12% |
| Education | 15% | 14% |
| Transportation and Public Works | 15% | 6% |
| Commerce | 11% | 4% |
The thick bar is the share of Victory’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.
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.
| Area | Talks about | State Senate Republicans, talks about | Legislates on | State Senate Republicans, legislates on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agriculture and Food | 30% | 6% | 8% | 3% |
| Economics and Public Finance | 16% | 12% | 13% | 3% |
| Education | 15% | 14% | 4% | 10% |
| Transportation and Public Works | 15% | 6% | 8% | 6% |
| Commerce | 11% | 4% | 10% | 3% |
talk-to-bills agreement, 0 to 1
State Senate Republicans average 0.52. Ranks 94th of 226.
Agreement is 1 minus the distance between the two distributions (Jensen–Shannon): 1 means Victory legislates on exactly the areas Victory 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 Victory sponsored count fully, cosponsored bills a quarter. Shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
Victory sits at +0.33 on the CSIP scale, right of 0, more liberal than 54% of State Senate Republicans. Approximate range +0.30 to +0.37, which understates the uncertainty; from 95 donors and 1,158 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”.
CSIP ideal point
Approximate range +0.30 to +0.37. From 95 donors and 1,158 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.
The outlined dot is Victory, 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 Victory’s groups. 0 is the centre of the scale, not “moderate” by definition.
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.
Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale
| Group | Officials | Median | Share left of Victory |
|---|---|---|---|
| State Senate Republicans | 1083 | +0.4 | 46% |
| Michigan Senate | 38 | −0.4 | 63% |
| All State Senate | 1909 | +0.1 | 69% |
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 Victory 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 Victory.
Victory reported $32.8K in the 2026 cycle, below the State Senate Republicans’ median of $46.2K. State filings report no small-donation total. 100% of itemized individual money came from Michigan.
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.
itemized in the 2026 cycle
From 29 itemized donors. State Senate Republicans’ median $46.2K.
Each square is one percent of itemized contributions in the 2026 cycle.
| Source | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Individuals (itemized) | $15.7K | 47.8% |
| PACs and other committees | $17.1K | 52.2% |
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.
Itemized contributions, 2020 to 2026. The grey line is the State Senate Republicans’ median for 2026.
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| 2020 cycle | $29.4K |
| 2022 cycle | $102.4K |
| 2024 cycle | $33.5K |
| 2026 cycle | $32.8K |
Itemized contributions by donor state. 100% came from Michigan.
State filings report no total for small gifts.
Not reported in state filings.
Individuals who gave more than $200, by donor state
| State | Value |
|---|---|
| Michigan | $15.7K |
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itemized donors
People who gave more than $200
from Michigan
Of itemized individual dollars
Every state the same size. Darker states gave more itemized money; hatched states had no itemized donors; the outlined state is Michigan. Gifts of $200 or less carry no address and are left out.
Itemized, 2026 cycle.
PAC and committee contributions, 2026 cycle.
Itemized, 2026 cycle.
No employers reported.
Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.
Victory voted with the majority of Michigan Senate Republicans on 78% of party-line votes and missed 5.9% of 523 roll calls. Michigan Senate on average: 92.6% party unity, 95.5% attendance. Across all roll calls, Victory voted against the majority of Michigan Senate Republicans 51 times.
523 roll calls Victory could vote on in the MI 2025–26 session, compared with Michigan 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 Victory voted with the majority of Michigan Senate Republicans. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.
votes against the majority of Michigan Senate Republicans
Party unity 78%, Michigan Senate average 92.6%, ranks 33rd of 37. 523 roll calls in the MI 2025–26 session.
The thick bar is Victory, the thin grey bar the Michigan Senate average. The scale runs from 70% to 100% to show the gap.
| Row | Victory | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 94.0% | 95.5% |
| Party unity | 78% | 92.6% |
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.
25 roll calls the lab flagged as key in the MI 2025–26 session
| Party split (yea–nay) | Why it’s key | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 14, 2026 | HB 5356 Vehicles: title; requirements for transfer of title by a dealer; provide for. Amends 14, 41a, 78, 217, 217c, 233, 233a, 233b, 234, 238, 239, 240, 248, 248a, 248j, 249, 250, 258, 801b, 806 & 810a of 1949 PA 300 (MCL 257.14 et seq.) & adds sec. 9b. PASSED; GIVEN IMMEDIATE EFFECT ROLL CALL # 263 YEAS 31 NAYS 3 EXCUSED 4 NOT VOTING 0 | Yea | With majority | pass | D 18–1 · R 13–2Democrats 18 yea, 1 nay; Republicans 13 yea, 2 nay | party crossover |
| Oct 1, 2026 | SB 947 Natural resources: inland lakes; dam safety regulations; provide for. Amends and adds (See bill). TIE BAR WITH: HB 5485'26 ROLL CALL: ROLL CALL # 260 YEAS 34 NAYS 2 EXCUSED 2 NOT VOTING 0 | Yea | With majority | pass | D 20–0 · R 14–2Democrats 20 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 14 yea, 2 nay | party crossover |
| Oct 1, 2026 | HB 5485 Natural resources: inland lakes; dam safety regulations; provide for. Amends secs. 31502, 31503, 31504, 31505, 31506, 31507, 31508, 31509, 31510, 31511, 31513, 31515, 31516, 31517, 31518, 31520, 31521 & 31523 of 1994 PA 451 (MCL 324.31502 et seq.) & adds secs. 31506a, 31509a, 31509b, 31517a, 31518a, PASSED; GIVEN IMMEDIATE EFFECT ROLL CALL # 247 YEAS 34 NAYS 2 EXCUSED 2 NOT VOTING 0 | Yea | With majority | pass | D 20–0 · R 14–2Democrats 20 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 14 yea, 2 nay | party crossover |
| Oct 1, 2026 | HB 4598 Crimes: organized; gift card fraud; provide for. Amends sec. 4 of 2012 PA 455 (MCL 752.1084). PASSED; GIVEN IMMEDIATE EFFECT ROLL CALL # 253 YEAS 36 NAYS 0 EXCUSED 2 NOT VOTING 0 | Yea | With majority | pass | D 20–0 · R 16–0Democrats 20 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 16 yea, 0 nay | became law |
| Oct 1, 2026 | SB 791 Highways: memorial; portion of I-475; designate as the "St. John Street Community Memorial Highway". Amends 2001 PA 142 (MCL 250.1001 - 250.2092) by adding sec. 124. PASSED ROLL CALL # 258 YEAS 33 NAYS 3 EXCUSED 2 NOT VOTING 0 | Yea | With majority | pass | D 20–0 · R 13–3Democrats 20 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 13 yea, 3 nay | party crossover |
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.
The colleagues who voted the same way as Victory most often
The colleagues who voted the same way as Victory least often
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.
MI 2025–26 session, loads in batches
Victory sponsored 31 bills in the MI 2025–26 session; 1 became law. Cosponsored 72 others. 16% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Michigan Senate average 38%; 33rd of 38).
The bills Victory sponsored and cosponsored in the MI 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.
Counts for the MI 2025–26 session
| Role | Introduced | In committee | Passed one chamber | Passed both chambers | Became law |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sponsored | 31 | 31 | 5 | 1 | 1 |
| Cosponsored | 72 | 71 | 27 | 9 | 3 |
Ink blocks are bills Victory sponsored, ochre blocks bills Victory cosponsored; the figure above each block is the count. Most bills in any legislature never leave committee, so a short staircase is the norm.
of sponsored bills got out of committee
Michigan Senate average 38%. Ranks 33rd of 38.
Colleagues who most often cosponsor with Victory, by number of shared bills in the MI 2025–26 session; the square shows their party.
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 Victory’s bills; the toggle shows more.
Sponsored and cosponsored, with status and policy area; five are shown, the toggle shows the rest
| SB 1201 | Agriculture: other; Michigan animal agriculture alliance; establish. Amends 1988 PA 466 (MCL 287.701 - 287.746) by adding sec. 35. | Sponsor | Oct 14, 2026 | In committee | Agriculture and Food(model) | REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS Oct 14, 2026 |
| SCR 16 | A concurrent resolution of tribute offered as a memorial for John Pappageorge, former member of the Michigan Senate and Michigan House of Representatives. | Cosponsor | Oct 14, 2026 | Passed one chamber | Unassigned | ENTIRE MEMBERSHIP OF THE SENATE AND LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR NAMED CO-SPONSORS Oct 14, 2026 |
| SB 1202 | Appropriations: supplemental; funding for the animal agriculture alliance; provide for. Creates appropriation act. | Sponsor | Oct 14, 2026 | In committee | Agriculture and Food(model) | REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS Oct 14, 2026 |
| SR 146 | A resolution of tribute offered as a memorial for John Joseph Henry Schwarz, M.D., former member of the Michigan Senate. | Cosponsor | Oct 14, 2026 | Passed one chamber | Unassigned | ENTIRE MEMBERSHIP OF THE SENATE AND LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR NAMED CO-SPONSORS Oct 14, 2026 |
| SB 1180 | Civil rights: public records; fees related to freedom of information act requests; limit. Amends secs. 3 & 4 of 1976 PA 442 (MCL 15.233 & 15.234). | Sponsor | Sep 22, 2026 | In committee | Government Operations and Politics(model) | REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON REGULATORY AFFAIRS Sep 22, 2026 |
A site that changed 1 time in 90 days. Victory’s official site had 1 page when last crawled on Oct 1, 2026.
The lab crawls Victory’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 Victory posts with a vision model.
pages crawled
changes in 90 days
“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.
No images from Victory’s posts have been described.
Written by a vision model and may be wrong. Open the post to see the original. Five are shown; the toggle shows the rest.
No transcribed state floor speeches are matched to this legislator yet.
Transcribed from chamber video or captions by the lab. They are not classified for kinds of statement.
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 is the measure on which Victory 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 …”).
Bulk files with the same data for every official:
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