In a segment on Current TV, Al Gore blamed Denver’s high altitude for President Obama’s poor debate performance.
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In a segment on Current TV, Al Gore blamed Denver’s high altitude for President Obama’s poor debate performance.
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A recent New York Times/Siena College poll of Black voters showed that only 78% plan to vote for Kamala Harris, compared to Joe Biden’s 90% share in the 2020 election…
Donald Trump suggested sending the military after U.S. citizens on Election Day, The Independent reports. Said Trump: “I don’t think immigrants are the problem in terms of election day. I…
Wall Street Journal: “Officials didn’t know if the drone fleet over Langley Air Force Base, which numbered as many as a dozen or more over the following nights, belonged to…
Donald Trump suggested that he was essentially making up numbers for his proposed tariffs as a threat to get countries to make more products in the United States, the New…
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) said Sunday she does not trust House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to certify the 2024 election if Vice President Harris wins, Axios reports. Said Cheney:…
Donald Trump said that a national abortion ban is “off the table,” but left the door open on the conversation by saying “we’ll see what happens,” The Hill reports. Trump…
The U.S. will send an advanced anti-missile system — and U.S. troops to operate it — to Israel “to help bolster Israel’s air defenses following Iran’s unprecedented attacks against Israel…
“Taxes could go up, down or completely sideways next year, depending on which political party controls which parts of the government after the too-close-to-call November elections,” the Wall Street Journal…
Evan Osnos: “Three months ago, the Vice-President was fighting for respect in Washington. Can she defy her doubters — and end the Trump era?” Save to Favorites
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) told NBC News that she is a “conservative” but does not consider herself to be “a member of Donald Trump’s Republican Party.” Save to Favorites
“Tens of thousands of evangelical Christians gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Saturday to pray for America’s atonement and for Donald Trump’s return to the White House,”…
“Donald Trump is ramping up his rhetoric depicting his political rivals and critics as criminals, while dropping a long trail of suggestions that he favors outlawing political speech that he…
Associated Press: “Trump’s vision amounts to a potentially dramatic shift in the role of the military in U.S. society, carrying grave implications for both the country’s place in the world…
Politico: “His rhetoric has veered more than ever into conspiracy theories and rumors… And Trump has demonized minority groups and used increasingly dark, graphic imagery to talk about migrants in…
Playbook: “If Trump loses his reelection bid this year, we are likely to revisit his day on the campaign trail yesterday.” “That’s not because he offered his usual assortment of…
A new CBS News poll shows Kamala Harris narrowly ahead of Donald Trump nationally among likely voters, 51% to 48%. In the battleground states, Harris leads by just one percentage…
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are deadlocked in the latest national NBC News poll, 48% to 48%, with Trump bolstered by Republicans coming back home to support him after last…
“Donald Trump suggested that a heckler would later get ‘the hell knocked out of her’ during an insult-laced speech here Saturday that portrayed a dark image of the country and…
“As the Harris campaign continues to court male voters, it is dialing up a deep shot, targeting a venue where it thinks it will reach quite a few of them:…
“America and the world have a lot riding on who wins in November. So does Barack Obama,” CNN reports. “And that’s part of what is powering what people familiar with…
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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