A new Chicago Tribune poll in Illinois finds Donald Trump leading the GOP field with 32%, followed by Ted Cruz at 22%, Marco Rubio at 21% and John Kasich at 18%.
The primary is on March 15.

Save to FavoritesA new Chicago Tribune poll in Illinois finds Donald Trump leading the GOP field with 32%, followed by Ted Cruz at 22%, Marco Rubio at 21% and John Kasich at 18%.
The primary is on March 15.

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President Trump lashed out at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) after she appeared on “60 Minutes” to discuss her rift with him, NewsNation reports. Said Trump: “The only reason Marjorie…
“President Trump said in a social media post Monday that he will issue an executive order this week to curb state laws on artificial intelligence, the latest win for a…
“After a year mired in reflection and recrimination over the future of their party, Democratic governors are suddenly showing some swagger,” the New York Times reports. “As they gathered this…
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President Trump pardoned sports executive Tim Leiweke – who was convicted by Trump’s own Justice Department – after a round of golf with former Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), who was…
Mother Jones: “Over the last six months, the Justice Department has demanded full, unredacted voter rolls from dozens of states in an effort to create the federal government’s first-ever national…
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the U.S. military on Sept. 2 to kill all 11 people on a suspected drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean Sea because they were on an…
The New York Times reports that last year, before she became attorney general, Pam Bondi wrote a Supreme Court brief in which she argued: “Military officers are required not to…
“The conservative legal movement has for decades insisted that an originalist understanding of the Constitution — that is, an interpretation that looks to how the document was understood at the…
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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