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Save to Favorites“Without a photographic memory, you can’t speak without notes … My memory is one of the greats.”
— Donald Trump, quoted by the Wall Street Journal.

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“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,”…
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is pushing for “Russia week” on the Senate floor, where senators would take up a trio of bills targeting Moscow, including a long-stalled sanctions effort, Punchbowl…
After protesters got within a few feet of President Trump at a D.C. restaurant last month, his team was so alarmed it had a tense talk with Secret Service officials…
G. Elliot Morris: “New polls from Gallup and YouGov show Democrats pulling ahead of Republicans as the party voters trust more to handle the economy. And the raw polling data…
President Trump’s favorability has fallen among Hispanic adults since the beginning of the year, a new AP-NORC poll shows, “a potential warning sign from a key constituency that helped secure…
“Republicans are barreling toward the upcoming Obamacare enrollment period without a unified plan to address the sticker shock that millions of Americans are likely to experience due to the expiration…
“It’s been a helluva week. I went from being a communist on Thursday to a Nazi by Monday.” — Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner (D), quoted by Drop Site….
President Trump said a private donor has contributed $130 million to cover potential military pay shortfalls during the government shutdown, calling the contributor a “patriot” and “friend,” while declining to…
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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