“Beto O’Rourke will report raising about $3.6 million from April through June, a startlingly small sum for a candidate whose presidential campaign once appeared ascendant and who raised massive amounts of money for his 2018 Senate race,” Politico reports.
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“Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Thursday that Democrats will offer a clean three-year extension of enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits for a vote next week,” CBS News reports….
Joe Klein: “I don’t know what is wrong with Donald Trump, but something clearly is. Yes, yes, he’s never been what one might call stable, but his instability is more…
“Speaker Mike Johnson is racing to finalize a Republican health care plan in time to present it to his conference at their weekly meeting Tuesday, but his team still needs…
“One of the greatest public-health achievements of recent decades has been driving down child mortality around the world. Now, that long-running decline is reversing,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Driving…
President Trump has been working overtime to cast himself as a world-class peacemaker. He’s floated the idea that he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize. A handful of foreign governments angling…
Matt Van Epps (R) “was sworn Thursday as the newest House member, two days after winning a closely watched special election that helped maintain his party’s slim grip on power,”…
“What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I’ve seen in my time in public service… You have two individuals and clear distress, without any…
This looks really great: King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation by Scott Anderson. The Atlantic: “Drawing on government communiqués and first-person accounts—including that…
For most of this year, Democrats have been notching surprisingly strong results in special elections across the country. It’s easy to get lost in the partisan storylines — energized Democratic…
A new Harvard Institute of Politics survey finds that adults under age 30 believe that things in the country are generally on the wrong track, 57% to 13%. Just 32%…
CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss will moderate a town hall next week with Erika Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk, for a town hall event that will air…
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Andrew Egger: “Donald Trump, as a rule, hates Democrats. They’re radical left anti-American communists and domestic terrorists, after all. But every once in a while, Trump bumps into a Democrat…
A shocking report from Amnesty International alleges that detainees at the notorious Florida immigration jail known as “Alligator Alcatraz” were shackled inside a 2ft high metal cage and left outside…
New York Times: “Some voters may punish congressional Republicans in next year’s midterm elections if expanded Obamacare insurance subsidies are allowed to expire at the end of this month, a…
“Democrats are vowing to expand the midterm map into redder territory next year after strong showing Tuesday night in Tennessee, but prominent moderates warn the party must still overcome its…
“In a stunning break in one of the FBI’s most high-profile unsolved cases, agents arrested a suspect Thursday morning who investigators believe placed pipe bombs outside Republican and Democratic headquarters in…
Jonathan Bernstein: “The best thing that could happen is the best thing always for the incumbent party: Peace and prosperity. And both of those, especially the latter, are usually beyond…
“Trump’s former campaign manager assisted the campaign of a right-wing Honduran presidential candidate who was endorsed by the American president and is now in a razor-thin contest to win the…
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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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