Republican Lawmaker Tweets About Donald Trump, 90,000+ Posts

Over 90,000 Trump-related tweets from 276 Republican members of the 119th U.S. Congress form the core of this dataset. The data was collected by Qingjie Zeng and hosted on Harvard Dataverse, with a last update recorded in May 2026. It supports research on how political elites use personalized praise to signal loyalty to specific voter bases.

Use Cases

• Analyze patterns of flattery and loyalty signaling based on the described tweet content.
• Study the relationship between lawmaker religious affiliation and communication style based on the evangelical focus.
• Model changes in political rhetoric around electoral events based on the difference-in-differences design mentioned.
• Investigate the role of social media in consolidating personalist rule within democratic institutions.

Strengths

• Large-scale text corpus of over 90,000 tweets.
• Focus on a specific, politically relevant population: 276 Republican lawmakers.
• Data collection is tied to a published research theory and analysis method.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown for the underlying data files, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The dataset's focus on U.S. Republican politics and a specific time period may limit generalizability.

Provenance

Source

Harvard Dataverse, author Qingjie Zeng.

Collection Method

Likely collected via Twitter/X API, analyzing posts from identified accounts.

Time Range

Covers the period of the 119th U.S. Congress, with analysis extending to the 2024 primary season.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-04 23:03:14; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United States.