“The D.C. Court of Appeals on Thursday disbarred Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, because Manafort has been convicted of obstruction of justice and conspiracy,” the Washington Post reports.
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“We should be bringing in the best and brightest, and that’s what Donald Trump is changing about our immigration system. Let’s expedite the best and brightest who are gonna give…
“The Trump administration jettisoned a plan to honor the abolition of slavery, women’s suffrage and the civil-rights movement on quarters for the nation’s 250th birthday,” the Wall Street Journal reports….
“There was a time when calling for the dismantling of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency was considered too risky for a Democrat to campaign on,” NBC News reports….
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) delivered a withering critique of his own party, asserting that congressional Republicans are failing to help enact the agenda that President Trump ran on, Semafor reports….
A new Gallup poll finds roughly six in 10 adults — 58% for Medicare and 61% for Social Security — say they are more worried today than a year ago…
Dan Pfeiffer: “In the minds of most voters, Trump’s economic policy can be summed up in one word: tariffs.” “Trump was elected to lower prices, and one of his first…
“They need to come to Congress and say what they’re doing. We don’t know what’s going on. Nobody knows what the mission is in Venezuela.” — Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE),…
A new AP-NORC poll finds just 31% of U.S. adults now approve of how President Trump is handling the economy. That is down from 40% in March and marks the…
The New York Times, attacked by President Trump for reporting about his physical condition, said that it wouldn’t be deterred by “false and inflammatory language” that distorts the role of…
NOTUS: “In the past two months, President Donald Trump has pardoned a convicted drug trafficker, an unemployment scammer, a money launderer whom he said he is unfamiliar with and a…
A new Emerson survey of Ohio voters finds both statewide elections for governor and U.S. Senate tightening, with both races falling within the poll’s margin of error. In the open…
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said she will consider signing “every discharge petition” regardless of subject, to stop “House leadership from blocking Members from governing.” Save to Favorites
Venezuelan dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado appeared in Oslo after a “journey in a situation of extreme danger” to reach the Norwegian capital from her place…
“A congressional redistricting proposal that has split Indiana’s Senate Republicans advanced to its final stage Wednesday after lawmakers quickly dispatched three Democratic amendments and positioned the high-stakes bill for a…
Playbook: “The longest government shutdown in history was all for this: a Democrat-led vote in the Senate this morning on extending Obamacare subsidies that we already know is going to…
“America has a talent shortage, with 40% of adults lacking basic digital skills, says a new report from JPMorganChase that bolsters the bank’s recently announced $1.5 trillion U.S. investment initiative,”…
“MAGA’s media machine is ripping itself to shreds, locked in a web of interpersonal feuds that have derailed its once-relentless focus on advancing President Trump’s agenda,” Axios reports. “The MAGA…
“The acrimony is so deep between President Trump’s border czar and his homeland security secretary that the two officials barely speak to or meet with each other,” Axios reports. “Tensions…
“Jerome Powell pushed through a rate cut Wednesday over the broadest reservations of his nearly eight-year tenure, and in doing so, implicitly delivered a pointed message to President Trump and…
Punchbowl News: “Four live discharge petitions. Being forced to bargain for GOP support during simple procedural votes. Calls to Cabinet secretaries from the House floor to help win over members….
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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