Joseph Arminio

Joseph Arminio, who goes by "Dr. Joe," is the Republican nominee for Delaware's at-large U.S. House seat.[2][1] According to his campaign website, he holds a Ph.D. in political science from MIT and has worked in public policy and as a teacher, author and publisher; he ran in a 2008 Republican congressional primary in Maryland.[1][2] His campaign centers on an economic-reform proposal he calls the American Prosperity Plan and on a foreign policy of avoiding foreign wars.[1]

Arminio says he was born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware, and attended St. Edmond's Academy and Tower Hill.[1][2] He earned a B.A. in political science from Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. in political science from MIT, with an emphasis on international relations and national defense policy, and says he was a Delaware Rotary scholar who audited the War Studies master's program at King's College London.[1][2]

Arminio describes interning in the Washington office of U.S. Sen. William V. Roth, briefly working for Northrop Grumman, and managing Defense Department accounts for Sprint Government Systems Division.[1] He says he has done contract work for the Defense Department, the American Enterprise Institute and High Frontier, and chaired the National Coalition for Defense from 1996 to 2000.[1]

Arminio says he published The Citizens' Monitor, a Maryland-based publication, from 2004 to 2007, and has authored seven books on American policy and history.[1] He ran in the 2008 Republican primary for Maryland's 1st Congressional District, according to his campaign website.[1] He has taught history, world politics, American government, and speech and debate at American University, Lincoln University and his own business, Statesman Debate Institute, and runs a video channel called America Resurgent.[1]

Researched from the cited sources on 2026-10-21.