Joe Biden now officially has more than the 270 Electoral College votes he needs to claim the presidency after California certified its election results on Friday evening, Bloomberg reports. The…
“White House staffers at all levels are plotting their departures as a growing number of aides to President Trump are abandoning his quest to overturn the 2020 election results —…
“Thousands of undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children are immediately eligible to apply for an Obama-era program that grants them work permits, a federal judge in New…
“President Trump heads to Georgia on Saturday to campaign for two Republican senators one month ahead of a critical runoff that will determine which party controls the Senate,” CNN reports….
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has emerged as a key contender to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, CNN reports. “The HHS secretary position has been a source…
“The White House removed nine members of the Pentagon’s Defense Business Board on Friday and installed people loyal to President Trump in their place, including presidential allies Corey Lewandowski and…
“President Trump ordered the Pentagon to pull nearly all U.S. troops out of Somalia, where for 13 years they have been fighting a low-intensity battle against the local al Qaeda…
The RNC paid Digital Consulting Group more than $42 million for media buys, consulting and marketing between February and October, Salon reports. The company went from nonexistent to being the…
MyPillow founder Mike Lindell claimed in a bizarre Fox News interview that Donald Trump would continue to serve as president for “the next four years,” despite losing to Joe Biden….
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) referred to Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) as “Matt Putz” in a press briefing Friday after the congressman traveled to New Jersey for a Young…
There were 536 Wisconsin communities that voted for Barack Obama in 2012 and Donald Trump in 2016, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. In 2020, nearly all — 509 — voted…
The Centers for Disease Control is recommending “universal mask use” outside people’s homes as part of guidance published Friday aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus as the nation…
A new research paper from Heyu Xiong finds that Ronald Reagan’s tenure “as the host of a 1950s entertainment television program translated into support for his candidacy, in terms of…
“Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Friday announced his opposition to the bipartisan coronavirus relief package gaining momentum in the U.S. Senate, as jockeying intensified among lawmakers eager to cut a…
“President Trump’s campaign and its affiliated committees spent more than $1.1 million at Trump’s own properties in the last weeks of the 2020 campaign — continuing a pattern of self-enrichment…
Former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway told The 19th that “it looks like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will prevail.” She added: “I assume the electors will certify that and it…
“The House endorsed a landmark retreat in the nation’s decades-long war on drugs Friday, voting to remove marijuana from the federal schedule of controlled substances and provide for the regulation…
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“A trial judge raised the possibility that another federal judge overseeing Michael Flynn’s case could find that President Donald Trump’s pardon of Flynn is too broad, if it unlawfully protects…
Sarabeth Berman: “In the flood of disinformation filling the internet this election season, it was easy to miss another rapidly spreading phenomenon: partisan profit-driven websites putting out propaganda masquerading as…
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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