Jessica Piper

data journalist @politico. previously @bangordailynews, @bowdoincollege. [email protected] / call or text: 207-200-7806 / Signal: jsscppr.15

[Dasha Burns @DashaBurns]

🚨President Trump plans to soon nominate Todd Blanche to be attorney general, the position he’s held on an acting basis since April, two administration officials tell @politico.



The president could make the announcement as soon as tonight and has already told Blanche, an official tells me.

https://t.co/Oy13c7uN2y

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Exclusive: In a private meeting with Senate Democrats, Graham Platner attempted to quell growing concerns about a string of negative revelations about his life. https://t.co/XKZfmu11un

[Jessica Piper @jsscppr]

#mepolitics subtweet (sub-PowerPoint slide?) from Rep. Greg Landsman at WelcomeFest in DC this morning

[POLITICO @politico]

Primary night takeaways: Dem voters are playing it safe in the battlegrounds — and swinging further to the left in some safe-blue districts. https://t.co/EBB0yaFnVT

[Elena Schneider @ec_schneider]

NEW - As doubts swirl about Maine, Dems look to Iowa for another Senate path.

Josh Turek, the DC fav, won big last night w/ help from $10M in outside spending.

https://t.co/5rFxx4ZzQ8

[POLITICO @politico]

Democrats see the stars aligning in Iowa https://t.co/yrtTEB1F9o

[Lisa Kashinsky @lisakashinsky]

Josh Turek becomes the Democratic nominee in #IASEN.

Schumer gets his preferred candidate.

via @sambbenson
https://t.co/hNYbmHvBb5

[Jessica Sonkin @JessicaSonkin]

Senate Democrats following DSCC meeting with Platner earlier this evening:

Welch: “It’s going to be up to the voters in Maine”

Gillibrand: “I am very optimistic we are going to win Maine”

No further reaction to scandals exposed from the #MESEN candidate’s past.

[Jessica Piper @jsscppr]

a devastating must-read from Daniel:

[Daniel Han (@danieljhan.bksy.social) @danieljhan_]

New from me: He swiped right. She was recording everything.

In December 2024, Rob Field, then a top aide to Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy of New Jersey, met a woman on Bumble. Over five months of texting, dates and calls, he came to believe that the woman who identified herself as Leah Andrews might be his “forever person.”

But just over five months after they first met, surreptitiously recorded videos of their dates and calls were posted online by conservative influencer Steven Crowder. And “Leah” was not a progressive nurse. A lawsuit filed this week identifies her as a Florida woman named Alysia Gamble.

According to public records and online videos, Gamble — who is married with kids — was a former QAnon organizer.

[POLITICO @politico]

Schumer shares few details on meeting with Platner https://t.co/ViNhWHV2Ri

[Igor Bobic @igorbobic]

Schumer: “I met with Graham Platner today, we’re going to beat Susan Collins and take back the Senate.”

5 questions all on Platner, he gave the same answer each time

[Erin Doherty @erinpdoherty]

Scoop: Rep. Ashley Hinson said last week that the Iran war will become a "political liability" if it extends much longer, according to audio obtained by POLITICO.

https://t.co/9fizy1aOaD

[Jonathan Martin @jmart]

.@alexanderburns makes the case for the ascendant entertainment wing of the GOP in ‘28

So, if there’s going to be a challenge to an orderly handover of Republican leadership in 2028, it is far less likely to come from one of the usual suspects — Rubio, Ted Cruz, Glenn Youngkin and so on — than from a Pratt-like fireball aimed at Washington.

The national political environment is awfully inviting for such a candidate.

https://t.co/j3bvDkbvUO

[Jessica Piper @jsscppr]

2) hope for Dems in #ME02? from @playbookdc this a.m.

https://t.co/YBvI6hQLxn

[Jessica Piper @jsscppr]

two Maine tidbits this morning:

1) from our reporting last night — Janet Mills doesn't seem to be on a path to unsuspending her campaign, even as some Dems may want her to (via @andrewjfhoward)

https://t.co/d62Hjd2KWD

[Jessica Piper @jsscppr]

“every week it seems like it’s something else”

“is he going to be an albatross to run with? absolutely.”

Dems are fretting Platner’s Maine bid as the revelations continue. w/ @lisakashinsky, @andrewjfhoward

https://t.co/d62Hjd2KWD

[Jessica Piper @jsscppr]

@baseballot Maine effectively has a sore loser law, she can't mount an independent general election campaign
https://t.co/jKDpjAe5fd

[Michael Shepherd @mikeshepherdME]

Janet Mills posted from her campaign account for the first time since she suspended her Senate campaign in April https://t.co/AG3ZNbhAHT

[Jessica Piper @jsscppr]

this paragraph from the great @michaelkruse profile of Graham Platner from December keeps coming to mind
https://t.co/uslJgjxGTi

[Alex Thompson @AlexThomp]

“Days after Graham Platner announced his Maine Senate bid, his wife informed the campaign about a potential political problem she had previously discovered on the oyster farmer’s phone: sexually explicit texts with several women”

https://t.co/TXXRVrJ2AR