“We’re going to find the leakers and they’re going to pay a big price.”
— President Trump, quoted by The Hill, at a roundtable with House Republicans.
Save to Favorites“We’re going to find the leakers and they’re going to pay a big price.”
— President Trump, quoted by The Hill, at a roundtable with House Republicans.
Save to FavoritesThe leader of the Justice Department’s civil rights division, Kristen Clarke, said in an extraordinary personal statement that she was a victim of years-long domestic abuse and chose not to…
“The group leading the effort to put abortion rights on South Dakota’s November ballot said Wednesday it was turning in far more petition signatures than required, while an opposition group…
“As Donald Trump rolled out the red carpet for a parade of foreign dignitaries in recent weeks, some aides to President Joe Biden took notice — and umbrage — at…
“Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Wednesday said he’s ready for the ‘chaos’ that has plagued the House for much of 2023 and 2024 to end next week, when…
“Arizona lawmakers secured enough votes on Wednesday to repeal an abortion ban that first became law when Abraham Lincoln was president and a half-century before women won the right to…
“A federal judge in New York scheduled a closed-door meeting to deal with a request by lawyers for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign to withdraw from a gender discrimination lawsuit filed…
FiveThirtyEight: “We analyzed every House floor vote from the first year of the 118th Congress (2023) and applied an algorithm to divide representatives into eight clusters based on similarities in…
“Florida’s abortion ban after six-weeks gestation is in effect as of May 1. That means the time a person has to decide whether or not to have an abortion in…
Ron Brownstein: “President Joe Biden won a decisive Electoral College victory in 2020 by restoring old Democratic advantages in the Rust Belt while establishing new beachheads in the Sun Belt.”…
“The Federal Reserve voted to keep interest rates at a 23-year high on Wednesday, as the central bank tries to curb stubborn inflation,” NPR reports. “Investors now think it could…
Wall Street Journal: “Last year, as Mike Pompeo’s memoir, Never Give an Inch, made the rounds among China’s leaders, one passage in particular enraged Xi Jinping. The secretary of state…
Florida’s six-week abortion ban took effect today. That means abortion is now either banned or severely restricted in nearly the entire southern United States. Join now to continue reading. Members…
Donald Trump will speak at the Libertarian National Convention on May 23rd in D.C., where the third party will gather to nominate its presidential ticket, Semafor reports. Save to Favorites
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s increasingly frequent appearances on conservative media platforms are beginning to raise alarms at Mar-a-Lago,” Politico reports. “It’s another sign of the rising threat that Kennedy, the…
Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) said that he has started drafting a censure resolution against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) following her comments that suggested some Jewish students at Columbia University are…
A new NPR/PBS/Marist Poll finds Joe Biden leading Donald Trump nationally in the presidential race, 50% to 48%. When third party candidates are added as choices, the race is tied…
House Democrats met Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) plan to force a vote on ousting Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) with dismissal and derision, Axios reports. Said one House Democrat: “She…
“United Methodist delegates repealed their church’s longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy with no debate on Wednesday, removing a rule forbidding ‘self-avowed practicing homosexuals’ from being ordained or appointed as ministers,”…
New York Times: “The super PAC, Battleground California, says it aims to spend $15 million this year on eight competitive House races, seven with Republican incumbents — in Northern California,…
Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball: “A potentially very close election, as well as recent discussions about changing how Nebraska allocates its electoral votes, reminds us that a contingent election is possible…
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.
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