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“Daniel Cameron, the Republican nominee for Kentucky attorney general, is young and lacks much courtroom experience as a lawyer. But he has waged an aggressive political campaign this year with an endorsement from President Donald Trump, who is popular across the state, and conservative stands on highly charged social issues like immigration and abortion.
“Daniel Cameron supports Trump’s border wall,” declares the narrator in one of Cameron’s television commercials. “I’m proud to be 100 percent pro-life,” the candidate himself says in another.
Making his first run for elected office, the 33-year-old Cameron is deftly drawing on his Washington experience as a former general counsel for U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
The mighty McConnell fundraising machine helped fill Cameron’s campaign treasury with $709,530 by Oct. 5, more than twice the $329,068 raised by his Democratic opponent, Greg Stumbo, a former attorney general and Kentucky House speaker. (Two outside groups, the Republican and Democratic attorneys general associations, each are dropping more than $1 million into the race on top of what the candidates are spending, largely for attack ads.)
Cameron touts his connections with the Trump administration and the federal resources he could tap to deal with Kentucky’s drug addiction scourge. Both of Kentucky’s U.S. attorneys, based in Louisville and Lexington, are Trump appointees with whom he could work closely on joint federal-state crime fighting, he said.
“The time I spent working with our law enforcement community when I was Senator McConnell’s general counsel gave me the breadth of relationships,” Cameron said in a recent interview, “helping them confront what I, in many ways, think has become the public safety challenge of our lifetime, the drug epidemic. I was very proud to bring in some additional dollars through the Office”