RNC Chairman Reince Priebus told CBS News “that it’s high time for Donald Trump’s former primary challengers to come on board and support his campaign—and suggested there could be trouble for them in 2020 or 2024 if they don’t.”
Said Priebus: “Those people need to get on board. And if they’re thinking they’re going to run again someday, I think that we’re going to evaluate the process – of the nomination process and I don’t think it’s going to be that easy for them.”
Save to Favorites“A federal grand jury returned a criminal indictment Friday of New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell, capping a years-long corruption investigation that had overshadowed the mayor’s second term,” the New Orleans…
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declared he is not running for president in 2028. Said Kennedy: “Let me be clear: I am not running for president…
Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) is prepping for the redistricting battle in California, wearing a colorful shirt that includes the phrase: “Terminate Gerrymandering.” Save to Favorites
Many see Donald Trump as a rupture in the conservative tradition. But perhaps he’s just a return to form. For all the talk of Ronald Reagan as the high point…
“NASA is planning to decommission premier satellite missions that gather information on planet-warming pollution and other climate vital signs beginning as soon as October,” CNN reports. “The destruction of the…
A new Pew Research survey finds 60% of Americans disapprove of President Trump’s job performance, while only 38% approve. Save to Favorites
“Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has been working behind the scenes to rally his Republican troops against California Democrats’ gerrymandering ballot measure,” Politico reports. “McCarthy recently told his former home-state…
Robert Putnam and Richard Reeves: “Many boys and men are struggling today… in an America… disrupted by technological change, immigration and growing inequality. Since 2010, suicide rates among young men…
“Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is living for free in a military home typically reserved for the U.S. Coast Guard’s top admiral,” the Washington Post reports. “The highly…
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are set to meet today in one of the most remote corners of American soil — Alaska — and the stakes couldn’t be higher. What…
The Economist: “The puzzle of Mr Trump’s admiration for Mr Putin may have been better addressed by psychologists. Certainly Mr Putin, the seasoned KGB operative, has known how to play…
Brian Stelter: “No matter what happens at President Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin today, Trump will have Sean Hannity there right afterward to help him spin it positively.”…
The Economist: “When Donald Trump meets Vladimir Putin in Alaska it will be the seventh time the two have talked in person. This time is different, though. Since their last…
“President Donald Trump called Norway’s finance minister last month to discuss tariffs, he also told him he wanted the Nobel Peace Prize,” Reuters reports. From a local newspaper report: “Out…
“D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb has sued President Donald Trump over his executive actions asserting control over the D.C. police department and attempting to install an emergency police commissioner, one…
“Fuck that, that’s not going to happen.” — Hunter Biden, in an interview with Channel 5, after Melania Trump threatened a lawsuit if he didn’t apologize for saying Jeffrey Epstein…
“The West Wing has created a scorecard that rates 553 companies and trade associations on how hard they worked to support and promote President Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill,’” Axios…
Washington Post: “If this meeting is just to set the table for another meeting, that raises the question: Why go through all the heartburn and scare European allies with a…
“We’re not walking out of there with a deal.” — A White House official, quoted by Politico, downplaying expectations for today’s summit between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin….
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.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.