The International Association of Fire Fighters, one of the country’s more politically powerful unions, has abandoned its initial plans to endorse Hillary Clinton for president, the New York Times reports.
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CNN: “Ships now pulling into U.S. harbors from China are the first to be subject to the massive tariffs that America is imposing on most Chinese imports. That means, in…
“Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, used the same easily cracked password for different online accounts over a period of years,” Wired reports. “Following her participation in a Signal…
Nate Silver: “On Feb. 1, essentially the same number of Americans strongly approved and disapproved of Trump. Now, strong disapprovers outnumber strong approvers by about a 3-to-2 ratio. It’s hard…
Multiple House Republicans told Fox News they were frustrated by House GOP leaders’ decision to spend time voting on what they saw as a largely symbolic gesture in an otherwise…
“A federal judge on Tuesday refused to withdraw her order requiring the Trump administration to seek the return of a Venezuelan man deported to a notorious high-security prison in El…
President Trump repeatedly talked up a future announcement, “one of the most important announcements that have been made in many years about a certain subject,” the New York Times reports….
President Trump took shots at former President Barack Obama’s Presidential Center in Chicago, calling it “a disaster” and blaming “woke” construction workers, CBS News reports. Save to Favorites
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which backs NPR and PBS, said in a statement on Tuesday that the Department of Education had terminated a federal grant program that funded shows…
“Voters in suburban Texas came out handily over the weekend to vote out school board trustees touting book removals across districts and elect first-time candidates in opposition of such removals…
“When Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost’s poll numbers started plummeting in the Ohio governor’s race earlier this year, he started looking for an offramp,” NOTUS reports. “Yost didn’t just want…
“The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the Trump administration may start enforcing a ban on transgender troops serving in the military that had been blocked by lower courts,” the…
Charlie Cook: “While Democrats’ odds of taking back the Senate are long, an announcement Monday afternoon should remind us why we can’t dismiss the possibility entirely.” “Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s…
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) told the HuffPost that resisting President Trump is “not good enough.” Said Sanders: “The American people, I think, not only want resistance to Trump, but I…
“President Donald Trump endorsed Vivek Ramaswamy on the night Ramaswamy kicked off his campaign to be Ohio’s next governor,” NBC News reports. “More than two months later, term-limited Gov. Mike…
President Trump announced that the U.S. will stop its intense bombing campaign against the Houthis in Yemen after almost two months, saying the rebels had told Washington they “don’t want…
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) called the GOP megabill incorporating President Trump’s agenda “the most important, the most consequential legislation that we’ll ever be involved in in our lifetimes, and arguably…
President Trump wrote on social media just before meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney that he wanted to work with Carney but didn’t want to “subsidize” his country. Wrote…
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney clearly stated that President Trump’s aspiration for taking control of Canada is a nonstarter, the New York Times reports. Said Carney: “It’s not for sale….
“Senator Chuck Schumer and his allies are working aggressively to stretch a Senate map that offers precious few opportunities for Democrats to reclaim a majority in 2026, recruiting deep into…
Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz told CNBC he does not foresee toy manufacturing coming to America. Instead, the company expects to raise prices in the U.S. to offset President Trump’s 145%…
Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
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