THE TAKETrailAI · auto-generated
Joe Wilson's fundraising profile is split relatively evenly between PAC and committee money (44%) and individual donors (56%), with $154K in separate party and leadership contributions. Industry-tied contributions show concentration in Defense & Aerospace and Lawyers & Lobbyists sectors (each representing 16% of industry money), followed by Health Services, Real Estate, and Insurance; individual donors employed in Lawyers & Lobbyists, Health Services, and Securities & Investment show similar sectoral patterns. No stock trade disclosures are on file for the period reviewed.
Raised · all cycles$2.5M▼ 14% in ’24 vs ’22#181 in party · by cycle ↴
Top sector share16%Defense & Aerospace
Donor-sector votes13on bills touching top donor sectors
FOLLOW THE MONEY
Left: who funds Wilson (ribbon width = dollars) · right: their votes on bills classified as favoring vs limiting those sectors
“Favors / limits” is an AI classification of each bill's likely effect on the sector — a factual reading of the bill, not a claim about motive. Correlation, not causation. The named bills are in DOES THE MONEY MATCH THE VOTES? below.
DOES THE MONEY MATCH THE VOTES?
How Wilson voted on bills touching their biggest donor sectors · 6 of 13 shown, ranked by sector money
Each dollar figure is Wilson's total from that donor sector — shown on each related vote, not a per-vote amount. Correlation between funding and votes, not causation; many factors shape any single vote.
TOP SOURCES
1$117K
AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE PAC - CONDUIT
PAC
2$30K
NELSON MULLINS RILEY & SCARBOROUGH LLP FEDERAL POLITICAL CO
PAC
3$30K
NELSON MULLINS RILEY & SCARBOROUGH, LLP FEDERAL POLITICAL COMMITTEE
PAC
4$29K
BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF SOUTH CAROLINA FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS
PAC
5$29K
BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF SOUTH CAROLINA FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
PAC
ALIGNMENT SIGNALS
Sector-Aligned Voting89%
Joe Wilson (R) voted YEA on 7 of 7 bills classified as favoring their donor sectors — #31 rate in the House
Rep. Joe Wilson voted yes on 7 of 7 bills (100%) that an AI classifier identified as favoring his top donor sectors—Defense & Aerospace, Real Estate, and Securities & Investment—ranking #31 among House members on this metric. He voted yes on HR2670-118, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, which the classifier marked as favoring Defense & Aerospace.
Committee–Donor Overlap68%
Joe Wilson (R) sits on the Armed Services committee overseeing Defense & Aerospace — their largest tracked donor sector (14%)
Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) serves on the House Committee on Armed Services, which has jurisdiction over the Defense & Aerospace sector. Defense & Aerospace is his largest identifiable donor sector at 14.3% of contributions ($0.36M), ranking him 17th among House Republicans in donor concentration from that sector.
COMMITTEES
Armed Services
Foreign Affairs
Education and Workforce
SIMILAR DONOR NETWORKS
Members funded by the same industries — overlapping donor networks may reflect shared policy interests.
Jeanne Shaheen
D-NH · Senate
Defense & AerospaceLawyers & LobbyistsHealth Services
Pete Aguilar
D-CA · House
Defense & AerospaceLawyers & LobbyistsHealth Services
Veronica Escobar
D-TX · House
Defense & AerospaceLawyers & LobbyistsHealth Services
Bradley Scott Schneider
D-IL · House
Lawyers & LobbyistsHealth ServicesReal Estate
Tina Smith
D-MN · Senate
Lawyers & LobbyistsHealth ServicesReal Estate
Thom Tillis
R-NC · Senate
Lawyers & LobbyistsHealth ServicesReal Estate