“There won’t be any games in Cleveland. If someone’s at 1,237, they’re going to be the presumptive nominee. No one can get talked out of it. Nobody can be promised something to make that not happen.”
— RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, quoted by Politico.
Save to FavoritesA broker for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sought to make a large investment in major defense companies in the lead up to the Iran war, the Financial Times reports. Save…
CBS News: “JD Vance headlined a closed-door gathering for the spring summit of the Rockbridge Network, a secretive donor group that Vance co-founded in 2019 during his stint as a…
“Attorneys for Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) demanded Monday in a letter to FBI Director Kash Patel that the bureau refrain from releasing decade-old investigative files involving the congressman’s purported ties…
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has signed a bill to rename Palm Beach International Airport after President Donald Trump, WPBF reports. Save to Favorites
Washington Post: “President Donald Trump spent five minutes of Thursday’s Cabinet meeting boasting of his thrift with a story about negotiating for $5 personalized Sharpies.” “The company that makes the…
Politico: “Members of the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 are suing the federal government for tens of millions of dollars in damages, claiming that the ‘indiscriminate’…
Financial Times: “The White House has raised the prospect that President Donald Trump could ask Gulf states to help pay to cover the costs of the US and Israel’s war…
CNN: “Lawmakers have departed Washington for spring recess locked in a stalemate over funding for the Department of Homeland Security.” “But even as their movements outside the halls of Congress…
Wall Street Journal: “Washington State on Monday enacted a tax on income over $1 million, the latest Democratic state to levy a tax aimed squarely at the wealthy.” “The law,…
CBS News: “The shortage of TSA officers is still slowing security lines at major airports, where staffing shortages are more severe than the national average, but wait times seemed to…
New York Times: “Most of the Transportation Security Administration’s 60,000 workers began receiving back pay on Monday, easing the financial strain that has troubled them since the partial government shutdown…
New York Times: “The U.S.-Israeli war against Iran has fractured the Iranian government, complicating its ability to make decisions and coordinate larger retaliatory attacks, according to officials familiar with U.S….
Nate Silver: “The last time I did a check-in on President Trump’s popularity in November, I noted that the decline in his approval ratings had been remarkably linear. There have…
New York Times: “The Trump administration sued the Minnesota Education Department and the state group in charge of interscholastic athletics on Monday, accusing both of violating civil rights protections for…
CNBC: “The U.S. Army is investigating the apparent flyby of that military branch’s Apache helicopters over the weekend at the Nashville home of singer Kid Rock, a prominent supporter of…
The Guardian: “The U.S. government is resuming operations at its embassy in Venezuela, the state department announced on Monday, nearly three months since former president Nicolás Maduro was abducted from…
Lakshya Jain: “Simply put, the race for the Democratic nomination in Maine is between ‘weak’ and ‘weaker.’ One candidate, incumbent Gov. Janet Mills, is 78 years old and not especially…
New York Times: “Ask the power brokers in Washington, and they will tell you it is a vital national imperative for NASA astronauts to return to the moon before China…
Growing majorities of Americans say they fear AI technology will take away their jobs and hurt education, according to a new Quinnipiac poll. Fifty-five percent of Americans say AI will…
Just for members: The latest issue of Ballot Access News. An Arizona state court ruled that political parties cannot change their names without explicit permission from state law, forcing the…
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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