On the night she formally clinched the Democratic nomination, John Podesta sent an email to Hillary Clinton with 39 names of possible running mates.
Said Podesta: “I have organized names in rough food groups.”


On the night she formally clinched the Democratic nomination, John Podesta sent an email to Hillary Clinton with 39 names of possible running mates.
Said Podesta: “I have organized names in rough food groups.”
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Bill Gates went to the White House and begged Secretary of State Marco Rubio to unwind the DOGE cuts to foreign aid, Tara Palmeri reports. But the secretary of State…
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Gov. Gavin Newsom said that California planned to sue over President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Times reports. Save to Favorites
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Elon Musk’s DOGE bypassed White House security systems by installing Starlink and transmitting data without being detected, the Daily Beast reports. Save to Favorites
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Playbook: “Having spent the weekend musing about space travel — and largely avoiding politics — Musk threw himself foursquare behind the Trump administration last night as the Los Angeles ICE…
Los Angeles Times: “On Saturday evening, Trump insisted the unrest — scattered clashes across the county — was out of control. He bypassed Gov. Gavin Newsom and called in the…
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“Senate Republicans have three weeks to meet their leadership’s goal of passing a massive party-line reconciliation bill before the July 4 recess,” Punchbowl News reports. “Privately, GOP senators, the White…
“A U.S.-China trade truce wasn’t enough to stem a sharp drop in shipments from China to America last month, a sign of the havoc that President Trump’s tariffs have wrought…
President Trump stumbled as he walked up the stairs to board Air Force One on Sunday, quickly correcting himself, Newsweek reports. Save to Favorites
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.
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