The Secret Service is briefing local law enforcement about possible visits to Minneapolis this week by former President Barack Obama and Vice President Mike Pence, KVRR reports.
Save to FavoritesYou're reading the free version of Political Wire
Upgrade to a paid membership to unlock full access. The process is quick and easy. You can even use Apple Pay.
“As Elon Musk moves to create a third party to upend America’s political system, he’s spoken with one-time Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang about the nascent effort,” Politico reports. Said…
Tom Nichols: “It’s not the president, at least not on most issues. Trump’s interest in foreign policy, as with so many other topics, is capricious and episodic at best. He…
New York Times: “The American electoral system tends to favor a two-party system, and one of the most important reasons is that it’s winner-take-all.” “It doesn’t have proportional representation, which…
“New York City real-estate executives are throwing support and money behind incumbent Mayor Eric Adams in their fight to block Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, who campaigned on a rent…
New York Times: “Since RFK Jr. was confirmed as President Trump’s health secretary in February, the Food and Drug Administration has been buffeted by staff cuts that have crippled divisions…
Amazon Prime Day is here with deals up to 40% off on thousands of items — it’s one of the best times to save all year. It’s an especially good…
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, in her first public appearance since the Supreme Court sharply limited the ability of federal judges to check presidential power, said she believes recent rulings by…
“Private space companies, including Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin, stand to benefit from a preferential tax treatment tucked into Donald Trump’s signature spending plan,” the Financial Times…
“Within hours of taking office in January, President Donald Trump boasted about attracting $3 trillion in new corporate investments to the United States,” Reuters reports. “The White House calls it…
“The Senate GOP’s top super PAC and affiliates have more than doubled their fundraising record for the first half of an off-year — bringing in $85 million,” Axios reports. Save…
A new Yahoo Finance/Marist poll finds more than eight in 10 Americans are worried about the impact tariffs may have on their finances, while six in 10 believe the levies…
“An impostor pretending to be Secretary of State Marco Rubio contacted foreign ministers, a U.S. governor and a member of Congress by sending them voice and text messages that mimic…
“In another life we would be friends and go golfing.” — Donald Trump, quoted by Axios, speaking to Joe Biden after the 2024 election. Save to Favorites
“A political organization tied to House Republican leadership is pouring millions of dollars into polling and advertising in a new effort to fix a nagging problem for the party: Many…
Paul Krugman: “These tariffs are going to hurt South Korea and Japan, although they’ll hurt U.S. consumers even more. So why didn’t Korean and Japanese negotiators make big enough concessions…
“Independent populist Dan Osborn, whose insurgent Senate campaign seriously threatened one of Nebraska’s Republicans from securing a third term last year, is now taking on GOP Sen. Pete Ricketts —…
Playbook: “The Kamala Harris campaign was presented with a series of memos in its final stages setting out a clear strategy for winning over independent and ‘soft’ Republican votes —…
Playbook: “Anger over last night’s U-turn is already starting to flow. Trump’s repeated pledges to end America’s involvement in overseas wars were a big part of his appeal to the…
Grok, the chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, was updated over the weekend with instructions to “assume subjective viewpoints sourced from the media are biased” and “not shy away from…
Alex Jones broke down in tears in a video reacting to a new Trump administration memo about Jeffrey Epstein, asserting that there was no incriminating client list. Said Jones: “I…
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.
“There are a lot of blogs and news sites claiming to understand politics, but only a few actually do. Political Wire is one of them.”
— Chuck Todd, host of “Meet the Press”
“Concise. Relevant. To the point. Political Wire is the first site I check when I’m looking for the latest political nugget. That pretty much says it all.”
— Stuart Rothenberg, editor of the Rothenberg Political Report
“Political Wire is one of only four or five sites that I check every day and sometimes several times a day, for the latest political news and developments.”
— Charlie Cook, editor of the Cook Political Report
“The big news, delicious tidbits, pearls of wisdom — nicely packaged, constantly updated… What political junkie could ask for more?”
— Larry Sabato, Center for Politics, University of Virginia
“Political Wire is a great, great site.”
— Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”
“Taegan Goddard has a knack for digging out political gems that too often get passed over by the mainstream press, and for delivering the latest electoral developments in a sharp, no frills style that makes his Political Wire an addictive blog habit you don’t want to kick.”
— Arianna Huffington, founder of The Huffington Post
“Political Wire is one of the absolute must-read sites in the blogosphere.”
— Glenn Reynolds, founder of Instapundit
“I rely on Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire for straight, fair political news, he gets right to the point. It’s an eagerly anticipated part of my news reading.”
— Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist.