A new Boston Globe/Suffolk University poll in New Hampshire finds Hillary Clinton leading the Democratic field with 37%, followed by Bernie Sanders at 35% and Joe Biden at 11%.
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“Last week, bank CEOs including JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon, Goldman Sachs’s David Solomon, Bank of America’s Brian Moynihan and Wells Fargo’s Charlie Scharf were in Washington for an industry meeting…
Senior Trump press aides have refused to engage with reporters’ questions because the journalists listed identifying pronouns in their email signatures, the New York Times reports. Said press secretary Karoline…
Politico: “Shortly after Donald Trump picked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead his health department, a group of pharmaceutical executives traveled to Mar-a-Lago to personally express their reservations about the…
“Why am I voting on a budget based on promises that I don’t believe are going to materialize?” — Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), quoted by CNN, telling President Trump he…
Playbook: “President Donald Trump’s ‘reciprocal’ tariffs came into force at midnight, and this morning we awaken to a different world. The free trade system that America has embraced and nurtured…
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries“formally” challenged Speaker Mike Johnson to a one-on-one debate on the House floor over the budget plan. Save to Favorites
“A new crop of Democratic candidates is trying to turn the midterms into a referendum on age and complacency in their party’s ranks,” Politico reports. Save to Favorites
“Whose throat do I get to choke if this proves to be wrong?” — Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), quoted by the Washington Post, expressing frustration over President Trump’s tariff policy….
“Global markets convulsed as sweeping new U.S. tariffs went into effect, setting up Wall Street for another tense session,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Taking center stage was the selloff…
“The European Union plans to vote on Wednesday afternoon on its first retaliation measures in response to President Trump’s tariffs, moving closer to placing increased duties on a range of…
New York Times: “For years, the world’s two biggest powers have flirted with the idea of an economic decoupling as tensions between them have risen. The acceleration this week, in…
“If we don’t get it done because of stupidity or a couple of people who want to show how great they are, you just have to laugh at them or…
“Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is facing an increasingly dreadful task,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Economists, business owners and investors are betting that the uncertainty created by the sudden…
“The Trump administration has frozen more than $1 billion in funding for Cornell and $790 million for Northwestern amid civil rights investigations into both schools,“ the New York Times reports….
“Republican lawmakers are pressing the Trump administration to strike deals to walk back tariffs and are asking the White House for more details on strategy — even as they remain…
“Wall Street billionaires are not used to being on the outside looking in. But that is where they find themselves after President Trump ignored their appeals to call off his…
“The acting head of the Internal Revenue Service is stepping down, after the agency agreed to share undocumented migrants’ tax information with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a fundamental change in…
President Trump told a group of Republicans on Tuesday evening that foreign leaders were essentially groveling to avoid the new tariffs, CNN reports. Said Trump: “These countries are calling us…
At least a dozen House Republicans are considering signing onto Rep. Don Bacon’s (R-NE.) bill to restrict the White House’s ability to impose tariffs unilaterally, Axios reports. Save to Favorites
“As the breadth of the Trump revolution has spread across Washington in recent weeks, its most defining feature is a burn-it-down-first, figure-out-the-consequences-later recklessness. The costs of that approach are now…
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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