A top Justice Department official alerted the White House two weeks ago that “significant information requiring additional investigation” would further delay the security clearance process of Jared Kushner, the Washington Post reports.
Save to Favorites“President Trump said Thursday that he will leave the White House if the Electoral College formalizes President-Elect Joe Biden’s victory — even as he insisted such a decision would be…
Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon (R) has tested positive for COVID-19, CBS News reports. The Washington Post reports Gordon has resisted calls for a mask mandate even though the state has…
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Washington Post: “There was a time in Denver Riggleman’s life when he sat on the banks of a creek that reeked of dead fish and peered through night-vision goggles into…
“In the now-distant Republican presidential primaries of 2016, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas handily won the Iowa caucuses. This was determined by a method that has lately come under attack…
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) “accused the U.S. Supreme Court of political partisanship on Thursday after the justices narrowly rejected his coronavirus-based restrictions on religious services,” the New York…
It’s been quite a year. I’m not going to run through the insanity we’ve witnessed, but I will say I’m grateful to be able to run Political Wire and bring…
There’s a chance President Trump’s pardon of Michael Flynn could backfire some day, The Week reports. Trump’s pardon, which he announced in a tweet, means Flynn will theoretically no longer…
John Barsa, the acting administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, told his senior staff that he has tested positive for coronavirus, Axios reports. Staffers say Barsa rarely…
“Foreign observers are watching with trepidation — and at times disbelief — as coronavirus cases surge across the United States, and masses of Americans are choosing to follow through with…
Jill and Joe Biden writing for CNN: “This year, our turkey will be smaller and the clatter of cooking a little quieter. There will be no family walks in the…
President-elect Joe Biden is considering Roger Ferguson, former vice-chair of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, for National Economic Council director, CNBC reports. He is also considering regulatory veteran Gary…
“The Supreme Court’s new conservative majority late Wednesday night sided with religious organizations in New York that said they were illegally targeted by pandemic-related restrictions imposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo…
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David Frum: “Here’s the first and most important thing to understand about the crime for which President Trump just pardoned former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn: Flynn did not lie…
“President-elect Joe Biden is leaning towards naming former senior Obama administration official and current investment executive Brian Deese his top economic adviser in the White House, although pushback from the…
“President-elect Joe Biden is leaning toward naming former Obama administration national security adviser Tom Donilon as his CIA director,” Politico reports. “The choice for the spymaster role is one of…
“History will record the shameful irony that a president who lied to avoid military service staged a bogus event on the hallowed grounds of Gettysburg in a brazen attempt to…
“President Trump phoned into a Pennsylvania state Senate hearing where his legal team was appearing as part of their shriveling legal battle against the election results,” NBC News reports. “After…
President Trump announced he had pardoned his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, ending a three-year legal saga that saw Flynn seek to withdraw a guilty plea for lying 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.
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