“With less than a week until the Iowa caucuses, Donald Trump is facing an 11th-hour barrage of negative advertising — with a new anti-Trump group spending more than $1 million in a last-ditch effort to defeat him,” Politico reports.
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Kamala Harris told the BBC she may run again for the White House. Said Harris: “I am not done. I have lived my entire career as a life of service…
“Timothy Mellon, a reclusive billionaire and a major financial backer of President Trump, is the anonymous private donor who gave $130 million to the U.S. government to help pay troops…
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“President Trump is heading to Asia on Friday evening at a moment of turmoil at home: He has deployed an aircraft carrier to Latin America, cut off trade talks with…
New York Times: “Speaker Mike Johnson’s decision to put the House on an indefinite hiatus that is now stretching into its second month while the government is shut down is…
“Departing for his first Asia trip of his second term, President Trump publicly called for a meeting with a regional leader not on his diplomatic itinerary: North Korea’s Kim Jong…
“The Trump administration said on Friday that the Justice Department will monitor polling sites in California and New Jersey ahead of the Nov. 4 election, amid requests by Republican Party…
A Kentucky Republican official said the committee that recently selected Calvin Leach (R) as the GOP’s state Senate District 37 nominee was not aware of a blog post he authored…
Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner (D) has had quite a week — portrayed as everything from a communist to a Nazi in the span of just a few days….
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“The Ontario government plans to stop running the anti-tariff advertisement that irked President Donald Trump after airing it during broadcasts of baseball’s World Series,” Bloomberg reports. “The government-funded ad, which…
Washington, D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) was scammed in her home by people who said they were part of a cleaning crew, NBC Washington reports. The suspects charged almost…
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President Trump will likely name his new $300 million White House ballroom after himself, ABC News reports. Already, officials are referring to it as “The President Donald J. Trump Ballroom.”…
President Trump’s administration announced sanctions on the president of Colombia, intensifying a clash with the Latin American country over alleged drug trafficking, Bloomberg reports. Trump has assailed Colombian President Gustavo…
President Trump has now raised the estimated price of his White House ballroom construction to $350 million. It was $200 million just a few days ago. Save to Favorites
“President Trump has said he wants a whole new fleet of warships. And now they have a name,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Senior White House and Navy officials are…
“The Trump administration does not believe it can shuffle money around to fund SNAP benefits into November,” Punchbowl News reports. “The White House has spent the last few weeks trying…
“Donald Trump triggered a new bout of global trade turmoil on Friday, as his administration cleared the way for new tariffs on China and the U.S. president lashed out at…
Daily Beast: “Satellite imagery shows that six trees, including southern magnolias commemorating presidents Warren G. Harding and Franklin D. Roosevelt, were axed or removed from the White House grounds this…
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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