Cameron Joseph
@cam_joseph
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Senior Washington reporter @csmonitor. Almanac of American Politics senior author. Previous work in @guardian @latimes @cjr etc. @vicenews @nydailynews alum.
Washington, DC
Joined May 2010
In this moment of complete dysfunction, it's striking that 96 of 100 US senators still have positive approval ratings in their home states according to these polls. Also striking that Susan Collins is at -20.
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The comments about rural Americans from someone who has pitched himself as being able to connect with rural voters might be the most damaging
Maine Senate hopeful Graham Platner once called himself a “communist,” dismissed “all” police as bastards, and said rural White Americans “actually are” racist and stupid, according to deleted social media posts reviewed by CNN’s KFile.
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This background check (oppo dump?) on Platner since Mills got in the race has really been something. @lizcgoodwin with the latest scoop: Maine Senate candidate downplayed sexual assault concerns in deleted posts https://t.co/KwTiXogs3z
washingtonpost.com
Democrat Graham Platner disavowed the comments in an interview with The Washington Post, saying, “I don’t want people to judge me off the dumbest thing I said on the internet 12 years ago.”
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Fun chat as always!
Another wild week really got the going panel today: @JasonJDick, Editor-in-chief of CQ @RollCall, @SVDate, Senior White House Correspondent @HuffPost and @Cam_Joseph, Senior Washington Reporter @CSMonitor. https://t.co/WAJMUYnpya
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BREAKING: Trump's former National Security Advisor John Bolton has been indicted by a federal grand jury.
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Inevitable — and didn’t take long. Janet Mills’ recent comments praising Susan Collins become a Republican ad.
Everyone agrees, Senator Susan Collins is getting results for Maine. Even Governor Janet Mills praised Senator Collins, just last month saying: "I appreciate everything she is doing." Watch the latest ad from One Nation ⤵️
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Graham Platner wrote on Reddit in 2021 that all cops are “bastards,” that he was a “communist” and that white rural America is racist and stupid “I can honestly say that that is me just being an a**hole on the Internet” @Kfile @emsteck strike again https://t.co/BSMTqgCujd
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🎰🎰🎰 A campaign spokesman said Pritzker “had winnings and losses from a casino” in Las Vegas, but didn’t name his game(s) of chance, nor exactly where he beat the house. Gov. JB Pritzker won $1.4 million via gambling, 2024 tax returns show
chicago.suntimes.com
The governor and first lady MK Pritzker more than tripled their income in 2024 to $10.7 million, according to documents released by his campaign. A good chunk of that came at a casino.
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Here's an interesting FEC spot: Tom Daschle, the Senate Democratic Leader from 1995-2005, gave $1,000 to Sen. Susan Collins in September.
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That's half as much as Mills raised on her first day of the campaign, usually a top fundraising day esp for an establishment candidate
All without a single cent of corporate PAC money. Thank you to every grassroots donor who’s tired of the DC establishment losing winnable elections to Republicans.
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OUTRAISED ALERT -- LUKE BRONIN, the former Democratic mayor of Hartford who is running against longtime Rep. JOHN LARSON, raised $1.2 million and has $1.1 million on hand. LARSON raised $809,039 and has $879,398 in the bank.
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NEW: How the Pentagon sidelined lawyers while testing the legal limits of military action New details about the firing of the Army’s top uniformed lawyer after he raised concerns about the use of the military domestically and mass firings; “political litmus tests” for TJAG
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Another way Biden’s decision to keep running and wreck the ticket hurt Markey: He was the senate champion of the Green New Deal. Got a decent amount of climate funding passed. Then Trump won and pulled the money back, so not many accomplishments for Markey to run on.
New: Rep. Seth Moulton will challenge Sen. Ed Markey for his Senate seat in 2026. The race could be one of the biggest tests of Democratic voters’ appetite for generational change following the 2024 presidential election. #mapoli
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MURKOWSKI blames Russ Vought for making it harder to negotiate shutdown end: "The appropriations process is being run over, and that, to me, is absolutely unacceptable." She understands why Democrats don't trust them given Vought's rescissions and layoffs. "Why would you?"
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Even more wild... The filing states that after Rep. Cory Mills' ex-girlfriend filed for a restraining order, Mills had one of his Congressional office staffers contact his ex... "The Respondent caused a public employee under his direct supervision to contact the Petitioner."
New: Judge grants Cory Mills’ ex girlfriend a restraining order against him. Mills cannot go within 500 feet of her home or place of work . The judge said that “ evidence supported” that Mills’ ex became “physically ill, curled in the fetal position requiring family
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Trump makes clear U.S. bailout for Argentina is directly linked to this month's election results there: "Our approval is somewhat subject to who wins the election. If a socialist wins...you'd feel a lot differently about making an investment," he says at WH meeting with Milei
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A @politico exclusive: @JasonBeeferman and I read through 2,900 pages of an internal chat among Young Republican club leaders. It was filled with racist slurs, gay epithets and gas chamber references:
politico.com
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
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