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Republican · Florida Senate, district 31

Serving since Nov 8, 2022FL 2025–26 session

Portrait of Gayle Harrell, rendered as a two-tone print
Official portrait
$224.7K
in itemized contributions in the 2024 cycle, in the top tenth of State Senate Republicans

The median for State Senate Republicans is $28.3K. Ranks 7th of 112, where 1st raised the most. 407 itemized donors.

Itemized contributions reported to the state in the 2024 cycle, ranked among State Senate Republicans. State filings leave small gifts out, and totals depend on whether the seat is up this cycle.

At a glance

6 measures against State Senate Republicans. Harrell sits at +0.50 on the CSIP scale, more conservative than 71% of State Senate Republicans. Harrell voted against the majority of Florida Senate Republicans 11 times; party unity 90.1%, in the bottom half of the Florida Senate (average 90%).

The measures on which Harrell 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.

Itemized, 2024

$224.7K

State Senate Republicans’ median $28.3K · ranks 7th of 112

CSIP ideology

+0.50

More conservative than 71% of State Senate Republicans · ± 0.05

Party unity

90.1%

Florida Senate average 90% · ranks 28th of 39 · 11 votes against the majority of Florida Senate Republicans

From Florida, 2024

96%

Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 39th of 109 State Senate Republicans

Attendance

98.5%

Florida Senate average 95.0% · ranks 15th of 39 · 909 roll calls

Out of committee

47%

Florida Senate average 51% · ranks 21st of 36

Peer group: State Senate Republicans. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; the thick bar is Harrell, the thin grey bar the peer average. The headline is the measure on which Harrell is most unusual among peers (Methods, §08).

Back to topNext: What politicians say

What Harrell says

Harrell talks about policy less than 98% of State Senate Republicans. Policy discussion in 0% of 1 statements, against 37% for the average State Senate Republican; 352nd of 355.

An AI model reads each of Harrell’s 1 statements in the FL 2025–26 session (1 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 FL 2025–26 session

0%80%
Harrell
Peers
Rank
Personal attacks0 statements
0%
2%
273rd of 355
Policy criticism0 statements
0%
9%
331st of 355
Policy discussion0 statements
0%
37%
352nd of 355
Bipartisanship0 statements
0%
2%
311th of 355
Credit claiming0 statements
0%
15%
342nd of 355
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Harrell's share of statements in each category against the State Senate Republicans average.
RowHarrellPeers
Personal attacks0%2%
Policy criticism0%9%
Policy discussion0%37%
Bipartisanship0%2%
Credit claiming0%15%
1

statements classified

1 posts on X.

posts on X: 1 (100.0%)posts on X 1
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Harrell's statements by source
PartValue
posts on X1
How to read the bars

The thick bar is Harrell; the thin grey bar is the average State Senate Republicans. A longer thick bar means Harrell does this more than peers. Rank 1 is the highest rate in the group.

Extreme labels

Harrell used no extreme labels in 1 statements. The peer average is 1.3%.

No extreme labels in this window.

Who gets the labels

Targets named alongside an extreme label, by number of statements

No targets recorded.

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 FL 2025–26 session

No month in this window has 10 or more statements, too few to chart month by month.

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 FL 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%. 22 months are hatched here; 21 of them have no statements.

Examples by category

Up to five recent statements in each category

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.

All 1 statements

Newest first, the FL 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: 1 posts on X.

Back to topNext: Policy

Policy

No policy statements for the FL 2025–26 session.No classified statements (posts, press releases, newsletters, floor speeches) in this time window.

Back to topNext: Ideology

Ideology

Harrell sits at +0.50 on the CSIP scale, right of 0, more conservative than 71% of State Senate Republicans. Approximate range +0.46 to +0.55, which understates the uncertainty; from 922 donors and 629 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”.

+0.50

CSIP ideal point

Approximate range +0.46 to +0.55. From 922 donors and 629 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.

← More liberalMore conservative →0Harrell +0.5State Senate Republicans +0.4Florida Senate +0.4All State Senate +0.1

The outlined dot is Harrell, 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 Harrell’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 Harrell sits

Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale

−2.0−1.00.0+1.0+2.0← More liberalMore conservative →State Senate Republicansmedian +0.4Harrell +0.5Florida Senatemedian +0.4All State Senatemedian +0.1
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Harrell's CSIP score of +0.50 placed against State Senate Republicans, Florida Senate, All State Senate.
GroupOfficialsMedianShare left of Harrell
State Senate Republicans1083+0.471%
Florida Senate39+0.462%
All State Senate1909+0.183%
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 Harrell 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 Harrell.

Back to topNext: Money

Money

Harrell reported $224.7K in the 2024 cycle, 7.9 times the State Senate Republicans’ median of $28.3K. State filings report no small-donation total. 96% of itemized individual money came from Florida.

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.

Election cycle
$224.7K

itemized in the 2024 cycle

From 407 itemized donors. State Senate Republicans’ median $28.3K.

Where the money came from

Each square is one percent of itemized contributions in the 2024 cycle.

Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)Individuals (itemized): $151.4K (67.4%)PACs and other committees: $72.3K (32.2%)PACs and other committees: $72.3K (32.2%)PACs and other committees: $72.3K (32.2%)PACs and other committees: $72.3K (32.2%)PACs and other committees: $72.3K (32.2%)PACs and other committees: $72.3K (32.2%)PACs and other committees: $72.3K (32.2%)PACs and other committees: $72.3K (32.2%)PACs and other committees: $72.3K (32.2%)PACs and other committees: $72.3K (32.2%)PACs and other committees: $72.3K (32.2%)PACs and other committees: $72.3K (32.2%)PACs and other committees: $72.3K (32.2%)PACs and other committees: $72.3K (32.2%)PACs and other committees: $72.3K (32.2%)PACs and other committees: $72.3K (32.2%)PACs and other committees: $72.3K (32.2%)PACs and other committees: $72.3K (32.2%)PACs and other committees: $72.3K (32.2%)PACs and other committees: $72.3K (32.2%)PACs and other committees: $72.3K (32.2%)PACs and other committees: $72.3K (32.2%)PACs and other committees: $72.3K (32.2%)PACs and other committees: $72.3K (32.2%)PACs and other committees: $72.3K (32.2%)PACs and other committees: $72.3K (32.2%)PACs and other committees: $72.3K (32.2%)PACs and other committees: $72.3K (32.2%)PACs and other committees: $72.3K (32.2%)PACs and other committees: $72.3K (32.2%)PACs and other committees: $72.3K (32.2%)PACs and other committees: $72.3K (32.2%)Party committees: $1,000 (0.4%)
  • Individuals (itemized)67 squares$151.4K
  • PACs and other committees32 squares$72.3K
  • Party committees1 squares$1,000
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Sources of Harrell's money, 2024 cycle, one square per percent
SourceAmountShare
Individuals (itemized)$151.4K67.4%
PACs and other committees$72.3K32.2%
Party committees$1,0000.4%
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 2024. The grey line is the State Senate Republicans’ median for 2024.

2020 cycle: $403.9K$403.9K20202022 cycle: $152.0K$152.0K20222024 cycle: $224.7K$224.7K2024State Senate Republicans median $28.3K
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Harrell's receipts by cycle against the 2024 State Senate Republicans median.
ItemValue
2020 cycle$403.9K
2022 cycle$152.0K
2024 cycle$224.7K

Top donor states, 2024

Itemized contributions by donor state. 96% came from Florida.

  1. Florida$144.9K
  2. Texas$1,000
  3. Michigan$1,000
  4. Montana$1,000
  5. Wisconsin$1,000

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

Alaska: no dataAKMaine: no dataMEVermont: $100VTNew Hampshire: no dataNHWashington: $500WAIdaho: no dataIDMontana: $1,000MTNorth Dakota: no dataNDMinnesota: no dataMNIllinois: no dataILWisconsin: $1,000WIMichigan: $1,000MINew York: $50NYRhode Island: no dataRIMassachusetts: no dataMAOregon: no dataORNevada: no dataNVWyoming: no dataWYSouth Dakota: no dataSDIowa: no dataIAIndiana: no dataINOhio: no dataOHPennsylvania: no dataPANew Jersey: no dataNJConnecticut: no dataCTCalifornia: no dataCAUtah: no dataUTColorado: no dataCONebraska: no dataNEMissouri: no dataMOKentucky: no dataKYWest Virginia: no dataWVVirginia: no dataVAMaryland: no dataMDDelaware: no dataDEArizona: no dataAZNew Mexico: no dataNMKansas: no dataKSArkansas: no dataARTennessee: no dataTNNorth Carolina: no dataNCSouth Carolina: no dataSCDistrict of Columbia: no dataDCOklahoma: $50OKLouisiana: no dataLAMississippi: no dataMSAlabama: no dataALGeorgia: no dataGAHawaii: no dataHITexas: $1,000TXFlorida: $144.9KFL
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Harrell's itemized individual contributions by donor state, 2024 cycle
StateValue
Florida$144.9K
Montana$1,000
Wisconsin$1,000
Michigan$1,000
Texas$1,000
Washington$500
Vermont$100
New York$50
Oklahoma$50
AlaskaNo data
MaineNo data
New HampshireNo data
IdahoNo data
North DakotaNo data
MinnesotaNo data
IllinoisNo data
Rhode IslandNo data
MassachusettsNo data
OregonNo data
NevadaNo data
WyomingNo data
South DakotaNo data
IowaNo data
IndianaNo data
OhioNo data
PennsylvaniaNo data
New JerseyNo data
ConnecticutNo data
CaliforniaNo data
UtahNo data
ColoradoNo data
NebraskaNo data
MissouriNo data
KentuckyNo data
West VirginiaNo data
VirginiaNo data
MarylandNo data
DelawareNo data
ArizonaNo data
New MexicoNo data
KansasNo data
ArkansasNo data
TennesseeNo data
North CarolinaNo data
South CarolinaNo data
District of ColumbiaNo data
LouisianaNo data
MississippiNo data
AlabamaNo data
GeorgiaNo data
HawaiiNo data
407

itemized donors

People who gave more than $200

96%

from Florida

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 Florida. Gifts of $200 or less carry no address and are left out.

Top donor occupations

Itemized, 2024 cycle.

  1. PHYSICIAN$46.1K 135 donors
  2. RETIRED$34.6K 118 donors
  3. REAL ESTATE$5,750 8 donors
  4. GOVERNMENT RELATIONS$4,650 9 donors
  5. ATTORNEY$3,750 11 donors

Top committees

PAC and committee contributions, 2024 cycle.

  1. BETTER FLORIDA FUND CORP$2,000
  2. BUSINESS PAC OF PALM BEACH CO.$2,000
  3. FLORIDA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$2,000
  4. FOMA-PAC$2,000
  5. FRIENDS OF JIM BOYD$2,000

Top employers

Itemized, 2024 cycle.

No employers reported.

Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.

Back to topNext: Votes

Votes

Harrell voted with the majority of Florida Senate Republicans on 90.1% of party-line votes and missed 1.4% of 909 roll calls. Florida Senate on average: 90% party unity, 95.0% attendance. Across all roll calls, Harrell voted against the majority of Florida Senate Republicans 11 times.

909 roll calls Harrell could vote on in the FL 2025–26 session, compared with Florida 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 Harrell voted with the majority of Florida Senate Republicans. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.

11

votes against the majority of Florida Senate Republicans

Party unity 90.1%, Florida Senate average 90%, ranks 28th of 39. 909 roll calls in the FL 2025–26 session.

Attendance and party unity

The thick bar is Harrell, the thin grey bar the Florida Senate average. The scale runs from 80% to 100% to show the gap.

80%100%
Harrell
Peers
Rank
Attendance
98.5%
95.0%
15th of 39
Party unity
90.1%
90%
28th of 39
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Harrell's attendance and party unity against Florida Senate.
RowHarrellPeers
Attendance98.5%95.0%
Party unity90.1%90%
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 FL 2025–26 session

Key votes
Party split (yea–nay)Why it’s key
Jun 2, 2026
SB 4F
Property Tax Administration
Third Reading
YeaWith majoritypassD 3–8 · R 26–0 · I 1–0Democrats 3 yea, 8 nay; Republicans 26 yea, 0 nay; Independents 1 yea, 0 naybecame law · party crossover
Jun 2, 2026
HJR 1F
Save our Homes from Excessive Property Taxes
Third Reading
YeaWith majoritypassD 3–9 · R 26–0 · I 1–0Democrats 3 yea, 9 nay; Republicans 26 yea, 0 nay; Independents 1 yea, 0 nayparty crossover
Apr 29, 2026
HB 1D
Establishing the Congressional Districts of the State
Third Reading
YeaWith majoritypassD 0–12 · R 21–4 · I 0–1Democrats 0 yea, 12 nay; Republicans 21 yea, 4 nay; Independents 0 yea, 1 naybecame law · party crossover
Apr 28, 2026
SB 4D
Public Records/Investigations by the Department of Legal Affairs
Third Reading
YeaWith majoritypassD 10–1 · R 22–3 · I 1–0Democrats 10 yea, 1 nay; Republicans 22 yea, 3 nay; Independents 1 yea, 0 nayparty crossover
Mar 13, 2026
SB 628
Transportation Facility Designations
Returning Messages
YeaWith majoritypassD 5–3 · R 26–1Democrats 5 yea, 3 nay; Republicans 26 yea, 1 naybecame 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 Harrell most often

  1. Keith TruenowR742 shared votes99%
  2. Stan McClainR741 shared votes99%
  3. Ralph MassulloR366 shared votes99%
  4. Danny BurgessR854 shared votes99%
  5. Debbie MayfieldR367 shared votes99%

Votes least often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as Harrell least often

  1. Carlos SmithD396 shared votes83%
  2. Lori BermanD888 shared votes86%
  3. Dave SmithR340 shared votes87%
  4. Tracie DavisD764 shared votes88%
  5. Rosalind OsgoodD880 shared votes89%
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

FL 2025–26 session, loads in batches

Back to topNext: Legislation

Legislation

Harrell sponsored 64 bills in the FL 2025–26 session; 5 became law. Cosponsored 18 others. 47% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Florida Senate average 51%; 21st of 36).

The bills Harrell sponsored and cosponsored in the FL 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 FL 2025–26 session

Sponsored64 billsSponsored, Introduced: 6464Sponsored, In committee: 6262Sponsored, Passed one chamber: 99Sponsored, Passed both chambers: 55Sponsored, Became law: 55Cosponsored18 billsCosponsored, Introduced: 1818Cosponsored, In committee: 1818Cosponsored, Passed one chamber: 1111Cosponsored, Passed both chambers: 55Cosponsored, Became law: 44IntroducedIncommitteePassed onechamberPassed bothchambersBecamelaw
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Bills Harrell sponsored and cosponsored, by furthest stage reached
RoleIntroducedIn committeePassed one chamberPassed both chambersBecame law
Sponsored6462955
Cosponsored18181154
How to read the blocks

Ink blocks are bills Harrell sponsored, ochre blocks bills Harrell cosponsored; the figure above each block is the count. Most bills in any legislature never leave committee, so a short staircase is the norm.

47%

of sponsored bills got out of committee

Florida Senate average 51%. Ranks 21st of 36.

Cosponsorship partners

Colleagues who most often cosponsor with Harrell, by number of shared bills in the FL 2025–26 session; the square shows their party.

  1. Barbara Sharief6
  2. Ana Maria Rodriguez5
  3. Carlos Smith4
  4. Lori Berman4
  5. Alexis Calatayud3
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 Harrell’s bills; the toggle shows more.

Bill list

Sponsored and cosponsored, with status and policy area; five are shown, the toggle shows the rest

Bills sponsored and cosponsored
SB 2516EHigher EducationSponsorMay 7, 2026In committeeEducation(model)Laid on Table, refer to HB 5601-E May 12, 2026
SR 1764YMCASponsorJan 13, 2026Passed one chamberUnassignedAdopted, companion bill(s) passed, see HR 8059 (Adopted) Jan 22, 2026
SB 1760Health Care CoverageCosponsorJan 13, 2026In committeeHealth(model)Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 697 (Ch. 2026-4) Mar 10, 2026
SB 480Information TechnologySponsorJan 12, 2026In committeeGovernment Operations and Politics(model)Died on Calendar Mar 13, 2026
SB 1574Newborn ScreeningsCosponsorJan 9, 2026Passed one chamberHealth(model)Died in Messages Mar 13, 2026

Back to topNext: Online

Online

A site that changed 2 times in 90 days. Harrell’s official site had 1 page when last crawled on Oct 1, 2026.

The lab crawls Harrell’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 Harrell posts with a vision model.

Websites

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.

Images Harrell posted

No images from Harrell’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

307 turns, Jan 29, 2020 to May 12, 2026

Floor speeches

Transcribed from chamber video or captions by the lab. They are not classified for kinds of statement.

Back to topNext: Methods and sources

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 Harrell 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
cd3ba8e7-7c51-444b-bff3-e0c29de30660
Open States
ocd-person/cd3ba8e7-7c51-444b-bff3-e0c29de30660

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.

America’s Political Pulse · Polarization Research Lab

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