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A new Morning Consult poll finds most Americans think Donald Trump was in the know about Jeffrey Epstein’s abuses. Just 15 percent of people think the president was totally unaware…
President Trump said he will not support legislation to extend expanded Affordable Care Act subsidies even as senators are preparing to tee up a vote on the issue, complicating his…
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) posted on X that he’s looking forward to President Trump signing ceremony for the bill demanding the release of the Epstein files. Save to Favorites
Andrew Egger: “The president is running his usual playbook for slapping down internal enemies—the barrage of personal attacks, the accusations of sour grapes, the public brainstorming process for mean nicknames….
Just published: The Einstein Conspiracy by former Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY). In this novel, two FBI agents are pitted against a ruthless undercover German operative on a mission to abduct Albert…
NOTUS: ” It seems like only five days ago that the upcoming House vote to force the release of the Epstein files was a fraught, intraparty mess for the GOP….
David Graham: “Endorsing the House vote is strange, given that Trump could simply release the files himself, but despite his attempts to downplay it, this is a big concession. Trump…
“This one—I never, ever want to have her as my enemy: Marjorie Taylor Greene.” — Donald Trump, quoted by the Wall Street Journal, during the 2020 presidential campaign. Save to…
People reports when an off-camera female reporter — later identified as a Bloomberg reporter — began to ask if there was anything “incriminating” in the Jeffrey Epstein emails, President Trump…
Dan Pfeiffer: “There is a liberal fantasy that Emperor Trump will one day have his no-clothes moment, when the fact that he is a con man, a fraud, and a…
The Atlantic: “On the morning after he won a second term as president, Donald Trump placed an unexpected call to his top fundraiser, Meredith O’Rourke. The night before, he’d told…
Wall Street Journal: “It is uncharted territory for Greene, a partisan bombthrower and sharp-elbowed colleague who built her name as one of Trump’s loyal defenders after the Jan. 6, 2021,…
“Conspiracy theories never go away, and each revelation feeds that. That’s pretty much it.” — A longtime Republican operative, quoted by the Washington Post, on the ongoing Jeffrey Epstein fallout….
Senate Democrats are proposing legislation to repeal a contentious provision in the government funding bill that allows senators to file for $500,000 in damages if their phone records were seized…
Punchbowl News: “Trump’s shift, which came in the form of a Truth Social post late Sunday night, has also upended the dynamics in the Senate, where the bill was supposed…
A new Siena poll in New York finds Gov. Kathy Hochul’s (D) favorability and job approval ratings are each down five points from September. However, she continues to have a…
A new Strength in Numbers/Verasight poll finds Democrats leading the 2026 U.S. House generic ballot, 47% to 42% for Republicans. In a survey experiment, when respondents are told Republicans currently…
Axios: “Tuesday’s expected House vote to release the files — over Trump’s initial objections — will mark the first time this term that a GOP-led congressional chamber will so openly…
“For nearly 10 months this year, President Donald Trump’s every wish was the command of Republicans in Washington as he oversaw a furious reshaping of the federal government and beyond….
“President Trump denounced calls for the release of the Epstein files as a Democratic hoax. He dispatched aides to warn Republicans that backing it would be seen as a ‘hostile…
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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