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President Donald Trump, asked whether he believes that he needs to uphold the Constitution during his presidency, responded, “I don’t know,” the Washington Post reports. “The comment came as Trump…
President Donald Trump said he would give social-video platform TikTok another extension of a deadline to sell to a US owner if it was needed to reach a deal, Bloomberg…
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New York Times: “Mr. Trump’s attacks on this elite group — Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania — have endeared him to his political…
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President Trump shared an image of him as the Pope on Truth Social. It was also shared by the official White House account on X. The papal conclave to elect…
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“The White House border czar warned Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers over his guidance to state workers who encounter federal immigration officials on the job, suggesting the Democratic governor could face…
Republicans are largely “extending tax breaks that have been on the books for years,” Politico reports. “To many voters, it may not seem like anything has changed in their taxes…
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Speaker Mike Johnson’s hope of advancing the long-promised GOP megabill by Memorial Day is running headlong into political reality, as Republicans struggle “to unify around some of their most consequential…
“Investor Warren Buffett told thousands of Berkshire Hathaway shareholders Saturday that the United States shouldn’t use ‘trade as a weapon’ and anger the rest of the world like President Donald…
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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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