A new Argus Leader/KELO TV poll in South Dakota finds Kristi Noem (R) and Billie Sutton (D) deadlocked in the race for governor, 45% to 45%.
Another 9% said they were undecided.
Save to FavoritesWall Street Journal: “Thousands of U.S. Marines are slated to arrive in the Middle East on Friday, the day President Trump has set as the deadline for Iran to reopen…
CNN: “An already massive gap between Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee finances widened in February, according to new reports filed with the Federal Election Commission.” “The RNC out-raised…
NOTUS: “The Trump administration is paying nearly $1 billion to get a French energy company to cancel two planned offshore wind projects.” “The Interior Department said TotalEnergies will invest the…
Washington Post: “Judges in New Jersey appointed a new top federal prosecutor for the state on Monday in a move that drew swift support from the Justice Department, signaling an…
Financial Times: “Iran has for years threatened to shut down the strait, through which a fifth of the world’s oil and gas passes. And now they have done so, Iranian…
Lakshya Jain: “Trump’s numbers on the economy are radioactive. Every major demographic group of voters disapproves of his economic stewardship, including supermajorities of young and nonwhite voters. He’s even underwater…
New York Times: “Senior military officials are weighing a possible deployment of a combat brigade from the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division and some elements of the division’s headquarters staff to…
“Less than 48 hours before the U.S.-Israeli strike on Iran began, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke by phone to President Donald Trump about the reasons for launching the kind of…
Punchbowl News: “Senate Budget Committee Republicans are meeting early this week to discuss a second reconciliation bill.” “Senate Budget Committee Chair Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has called the meeting as talks…
Peter Wehner: “The president has cultivated and encouraged the ugliest passions within the GOP, dousing the embers of hate with kerosene.” Save to Favorites
“The U.S. Supreme Court has heard arguments over whether states can continue to count late-arriving mail ballots — an election issue targeted by President Donald Trump,” the AP reports. “In…
The Associated Press quotes Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf: “No negotiations have been held with the US, and fake news is used to manipulate the financial and oil markets and escape the…
Let’s assume — generously — that the U.S. is actually negotiating with senior Iranian officials. That raises a more basic question: What, exactly, could Donald Trump say that anyone in…
Time: “President Donald Trump is poised to skip the Conservative Political Action Conference this week, breaking with an annual tradition that has helped define his political rise and cement his…
CNN: “Donald Trump’s White House spokespeople have a favorite two-step reply when reporters ask them to comment on one of the president’s false claims.” “First: They say, ‘President Trump is…
CNN: “If you only watched Fox News over the weekend, you didn’t hear about President Donald Trump’s widely condemned reaction to Robert Mueller’s death.” “Since then, Fox News has mentioned…
“The unsettling reality is that with this president, Americans in wartime are in the unprecedented position of having to suspect that the enemy’s version of events is more likely to…
An Israeli official told Axios that U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner had been speaking with the speaker of the Iranian parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf. President Trump did not…
Wall Street Journal: “President Trump has rejected one of the possible offramps for the standoff over funding the Department of Homeland Security, leaving an impasse unresolved that has led to…
Bloomberg: “Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is on track to narrowly lose a national referendum to overhaul Italy’s judicial system, which has become a vote on the leader herself.” “About 54.4%…
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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