“Eight years was awesome and I was famous and I was powerful. But I have no desire for fame and power anymore… I crawled out of the swamp and I’m not crawling back in.”
— George W. Bush, in an interview at the Bush Institute.
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Save to FavoritesMaine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner (D) talked to The Atlantic about his controversial tattoo. “He told me that after he got the tattoo, he had two full-body screenings for tattoos…
“A growing number of Republicans on Capitol Hill has raised concerns about President Trump’s expanding war against drug cartels carried out without consultation or authorization by Congress, and is pressing…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the United States is sending an aircraft carrier to Latin America in major escalation of military buildup in the region, the AP reports. Save to…
“Premiums for the most popular types of plans sold on the federal health insurance marketplace Healthcare.gov will spike on average by 30 percent next year, according to final rates approved…
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) admitted during a podcast that President Joe Biden failed to establish “a secure border” where President Donald Trump succeeded, the Washington Examiner reports. Said Sanders: “I…
“House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries will endorse Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor Friday,” Politico reports. “The nod is coming after months of pressure and just before early voting…
“Premier Doug Ford of Ontario, a populist conservative who has earned the moniker for headline-grabbing moves that get under President Trump’s skin, pulled off another dramatic moment with an anti-tariff…
“New York Attorney General Letitia James pleaded not guilty on Friday to criminal charges that she committed bank fraud and made false statements to a lender when she bought a…
“The government website of Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears (R) highlights that she has ‘traveled over 28,000 miles across the Commonwealth since coming into office’ and ‘headlined numerous events across…
President Trump took questions from reporters at the White House with Attorney General Pam Bondi: TRUMP: Adam Schiff is one of the lowest forms of scum I’ve ever dealt with…
Peggy Noonan: “Donald Trump’s supporters are feeling satisfaction after two astonishing achievements: He is the first president this century to establish order on the southern border, and he has secured…
“The U.S. military has conducted its 10th strike on a suspected drug-running boat, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday, blaming the Tren de Aragua gang for operating the vessel…
“Reports this week that President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him $230 million in compensation for wrongful prosecution is making Republican senators uncomfortable amid the 24-day government…
Millions of Social Security recipients will see a 2.8 percent cost-of-living increase in their monthly checks next year, the Washington Post reports. Save to Favorites
Charlie Cook: “Close association with Trump is not a handicap in red states and districts, for now at least. It is a benefit, keeping the band together. But outside red…
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) warned President Trump over his foreign policy, saying that the president could see “all hell break loose” if he involves the US further in Venezuela or…
“Consumer prices rose 3.0% in September from a year earlier, the Labor Department said Friday, hotter than August’s increase of 2.9%,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Economists and policymakers are…
A new Quinnipiac University poll finds voters believe by a 52% to 38% margin that President Trump was “using the U.S. Justice Department to file unjustified criminal charges against his…
“Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock voted with Republicans on Thursday on the government shutdown, after previously rejecting every GOP measure to re-open the government or fund parts of it,”…
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.