The file

Tim Scott

Republican · U.S. Senator, South Carolina · South Carolina · Spectrum score +51

Senate ·

Tim Scott is U.S. Senator, South Carolina in South Carolina. Political positions and ideology score +51 (Right). Scott is the speech.

College: Charleston Southern University, B.S. 1988
Spouse: Unmarried
Children: None on the public record
Résumé: U.S. Senator · South Carolina · 2013–
U.S. Representative · South Carolina-1 · 2011–2013
Insurance agency owner · Tim Scott Allstate · 1990s–2010

Net worth: $3.8M
Salary: $174,000
Before office: $400K
2026 raised: $6.0M
Years in office: 15

Where Tim stands on the spectrum

Tim Scott scores +51 on Spectrum’s left–right line (right), right of center on the economy and conservative on social issues. The number is modeled from twelve issue positions and the public record — not a poll and not a party label.

Composite +51 · Right · economic +51 · social +47 · authoritarian +27

Confidence 94. How we calculate scores →

Background & record

Scott is the speech. The file is opportunity zones, an insurance-sales résumé, and a 2024 that the donor class funded as a vibe and then abandoned. South Carolina is safe. The presidential was a product test.

Finances

Modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit of any household.

Net worth

$3.8M

+850% since taking office

Senate disclosure midpoint, 2024

Before office$400K

Now$3.8M

Insurance salesman to Congress to Senate. 2024 presidential leftover PAC. Not a Charleston fortune.

Money in · 2026 cycle

Raised: $6.0M
Cash on hand: $4.0M

Top industries

Finance
Insurance
Leadership PACs
Small-dollar

Stock holdings

Index / retirement funds

Insurance-sales résumé. Funds plus leftover 2024 PAC, not a desk.

Disclosure midpoint, 2024–25 · STOCK Act ranges, not an audit

VTI
Vanguard Total Stock Market
Joint
$100K–$500K
VXUS
Vanguard Total International
Joint
$30K–$150K

Ticker	Name	Owner	Range
VTI	Vanguard Total Stock Market	Joint	$100K–$500K
VXUS	Vanguard Total International	Joint	$30K–$150K

Sum of ranges $130K–$650K · midpoint $390K

X sentiment

Last 7 days

Odds

Polymarket · Kalshi

Implied probability from open contracts. Real money, not a poll. Updates while you sit here.

Live wire

Live · checked just now

New articles land here as they publish. Checking about every 12 seconds.

Conflicts

Opportunity-zones as a Tim Scott product that became a tax story.
2024 campaign as a donor-list experiment that folded before Iowa.

Issue detail

−100 left pole · +100 right pole

Economic: +51
Social: +47
Authoritarian: +27
Confidence: 94

Taxes & spending+64
Lower taxes, smaller fiscal footprint
Health care+42
Private insurance markets, fewer mandates
Climate & energy+48
Energy abundance, fewer climate mandates
Business regulation+52
Deregulation and lighter administrative state
Labor & wages+44
Flexible labor markets, right-to-work
Immigration+46
Tighter borders, more deportations
Abortion+48
Restrictions or bans, fetal personhood
Guns+56
Broad Second Amendment, fewer federal limits
Crime & policing+50
More policing, longer sentences, less bail reform
Schools & speech+54
Choice, against gender/DEI curricula
Defense & alliances+58
Hard power, high defense spending, deterrence
Civil liberties+30
Order, platform / campus / speech restrictions for security or morality

Legislative first dimension (NOMINATE-like): 0.54

Compass

Auth · leftAuth · rightLib · leftLib · rightAuthoritarianLibertarianEconomic leftEconomic right

Sources

DW-NOMINATE
Wealth and fundraising are modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit.
College, family, and résumé are public-record facts, not a campaign bio.