Chris Cameron
@ChrisCameronNYT
Politics reporter for the New York Times. 🇦🇬🇺🇸
Four days left until election day. JD Vance sat for a 3+ hour podcast taping with Joe Rogan yesterday. Here is some of what he said –
Audiotape of Biden's 2023 interview with Hur, released by Trump team to undermine the ex-president, captures Biden's whispery voice, confusion and memory lapses, adding to the furor over his decline in office and decision to run again. @ChrisCameronNYT nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/…
Our hour by hour account of what happened at the US Institute of Peace last week and how DOGE got in the building: A master key, a 911 call, a full-building lockdown, threats DOGE is alleged to have made to a private security firm, and a gun safe. nytimes.com/2025/03/24/us/…
“The reason the failed establishment hates President Donald J. Trump is because he chooses his words carefully”
So much of American diplomacy has become pure performance--an obsession with *saying* this or that. The reason the failed establishment hates President Donald J. Trump is because he chooses his words carefully and, more importantly, is much more focused on *doing*.
"Vance reviewed the prisoners’ badges, which identified them by classifications such as immigrants or homosexuals. He and his wife paused at the end of the tour in front of a wall that said, “Never Again” in multiple languages." WaPo on VP Vance visit to Dachau.…
Brent Bozell, who once called Trump "the greatest charlatan of them all" and lamented "God help this country if this man were president," is picked to run the US Agency for Global Media. His son was among Jan. 6 rioters just pardoned. @ChrisCameronNYT nytimes.com/2025/01/22/us/…
Yesterday, Rachel Powell, who smashed a window and urged rioters to take the Capitol on Jan. 6, was released from the DC jail. She showed off a stick & poke tattoo “J6” done inside. At the time of her 2023 sentencing, she said she was “deeply ashamed” of her behavior that day.
We are so back, members of Congress are now back to saying “I didn’t see the tweet” when it comes to Trump torpedo the spending effort and setting up the stage for a potential shutdown.
A statement from President Donald J. Trump and Vice President-Elect JD Vance: The most foolish and inept thing ever done by Congressional Republicans was allowing our country to hit the debt ceiling in 2025. It was a mistake and is now something that must be addressed.…
When the history of the current media era is written, there should be a major chapter about Elisabeth Bumiller (@BumillerNYT). She has led the @nytimes Washington Bureau tirelessly for nearly a decade, a modern record, including one of the most ... (1) nytco.com/press/new-role…
As Trump courts the Latino vote, a comedian in the preprogram of the MSG rally makes this joke: "There's literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it's called Puerto Rico?" The third largest PR diaspora in the US lives in Pennsylvania
Atlas the dog just knocked Usha Vance's coffee out of her hand while boarding for campaign travel today. JD and Usha are heading for Detroit today.
The idea that Gen Z reporters being "less servile" is a bad thing and somehow existentially threatening to journalism is laughable tbh nymag.com/intelligencer/…
JD Vance is heading to NC today for a NASCAR race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. He is pictured carrying his daughter Mirabel as he boards his campaign jet.
JD Vance is touring a factory for military vehicles in Johnstown, P.A.