In an interview with the Lexington Herald Leader, Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R) “did not rule out a bid against” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in 2020, “but said, ‘No, I’m worried about being governor. I’m the governor, that’s my focus.’”
Save to Favorites“The State Department is laying off more than 1,300 employees as part of a sweeping reorganization plan that Trump administration officials say will cut down on unwieldy bureaucracy and modernize…
“The United States Department of Justice this week released nearly 11 hours of what it described as ‘full raw’ surveillance footage from a camera positioned near Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cell…
“Emil Bove, a top Justice Department official who previously served as President Trump’s criminal defense attorney, declined to rule out the possibility of the president running for a third term…
“It is so fucking bananas to watch them now try and diffuse this bomb that they planted.” — Jon Stewart, quoted by the HuffPost, on how the Jeffrey Epstein conspiracies…
Andrew Sullivan: “We have been a brutal deportation nation long before our Trumpian 21st Century gambit. What’s different now, it seems to me, are four things: the sheer scale of…
“FBI deputy director Dan Bongino took a day off from work Friday after clashing at the White House with Attorney General Pam Bondi over their handling of the Jeffrey Epstein…
Paul Krugman: “Let’s be clear: U.S. law does give the executive branch a lot of discretion to impose tariffs without additional legislation. It does this for a reason: Temporary tariffs…
I know you’re inundated—with headlines, notifications, and endless demands on your time and wallet. But here’s the hard truth: the billionaires and broligarchs aren’t going to rescue journalism. They’ve flooded…
Annie Lowrey: “Households will pay an average of $2,400 more for goods this year, thanks to Trump’s policies.” Save to Favorites
“A prominent Georgia Republican was running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded 300 investors of at least $140 million, federal officials alleged in a complaint filed Thursday,” the AP reports. “The…
President Trump is acting like he believes there are no limits to his power — and he’s not entirely wrong. This week, he announced sweeping new tariffs on Brazil, a…
Gallup: “Americans have grown markedly more positive toward immigration over the past year, with the share wanting immigration reduced dropping from 55% in 2024 to 30% today. At the same…
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) said that he believes the Biden administration destroyed key files pertaining to Jeffrey Epstein, the Washington Examiner reports. Save to Favorites
President Donald Trump expressed support for flood alarms in Texas responding to a disaster that has left more than 100 people dead and 170 people missing, NBC News reports. Said…
“I’m not a voter in New York City, so I have no dog in that fight. And everything that I’ve read on him, I don’t really agree with virtually any…
CNN: “White House advisers are now unequivocally engaged in a coordinated effort to dramatically ramp up the pressure on Powell in public statements and through bureaucratic moves designed to give…
“Harvard leaders have discussed creating a program that people briefed on the talks described as a center for conservative scholarship, possibly modeled on Stanford’s Hoover Institution, as the school fights…
Philip Rotner: “The DOJ’s deliberately opaque phrasing about what was not in the Epstein files tells us absolutely nothing about what was. The three words that do all the work…
“Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I’m fucked.” — President Trump, quoted by Politico, responding to news of special counsel Robert Mueller’s appointment…
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.