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Camille Rivera

Camille Rivera is a political strategist and partner at New Deal Strategies. She has held political and legislative leadership roles at the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union and the Service Employees International Union. Her work includes electoral campaigns, labor organizing and Latino voter outreach. She joined New Deal Strategies in 2019 and founded La Brega y Fuerza, which works to connect political organizing in Puerto Rico and the mainland United States. She previously was a deputy commissioner in the New York City Department of Homeless Services.

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DI has documented statements by Camille Rivera on 2026 Midterm Elections, Campaign Finance, and U.S. Politics. Read the quotations, original sources and related cases below.

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Statements by Camille Rivera

Camille Rivera

Role at the time: Democratic political strategist, in a column for The Nation

Condemned

Statement summary

In an October 7, 2026 column in The Nation, Democratic strategist Camille Rivera wrote that Florida is under-invested rather than red and that it is time for the DSCC and national donors to fund Angie Nixon's Senate campaign. She welcomed Nixon's report that party leaders plan to invest and said Nixon's democratic socialist politics are not out of step with voters.

“Angie Nixon is the nominee Democratic voters chose to lead them. It’s time Democratic institutions such as the DSCC and national donors started letting the money flow.”
Open source (opens in a new tab)Rivera argues national Democrats should invest in Nixon's campaignParagraph beginning Angie Nixon is the nominee Democratic voters chose
Why we used this label

The reference point is whether national Democrats are holding back money from Nixon's campaign, and why. Rivera criticizes the holdback: she writes that Florida is under-invested, tells donors and Democratic institutions to stop pausing, and answers the concern about Nixon's democratic socialism by saying her policies fit what voters want. That rejects the decision to hold back, so we labeled it Condemned. She does not say the DSCC is acting on Nixon's ideology or identity, and she calls Nixon's report of planned leadership investment good news; neither defends the holdback.

Read statementAre national Democrats holding back money from Angie Nixon's Florida Senate campaign because of her ideology and identity?

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