Politico: “More than 30 former staffers from Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign are signing onto an effort to elect Joe Biden — the same man they worked to defeat during the 2012 campaign.”


Politico: “More than 30 former staffers from Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign are signing onto an effort to elect Joe Biden — the same man they worked to defeat during the 2012 campaign.”
“The former chief of the Justice Department’s national security division said Tuesday that the search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Fla., suggests that the former president could…
“Federal agents removed about a dozen boxes of materials from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate and issued a warrant indicating the search pertained to possible violations surrounding classified information…
Voters in Connecticut, Minnesota, Vermont and Wisconsin headed to the polls to vote in primaries today. There’s also a special election in Minnesota’s 1st congressional district. Leave your reactions in…
A grand jury has indicted Colorado state Sen. Pete Lee (D) for allegedly giving false information about where he lives when voting, the Denver Post reports. Save to Favorites
Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) told Fox News that the FBI confiscated his cell phone. Perry said that while traveling with his family earlier in the day, he was approached by…
“If you think the federal government is out of control now, God help us when you get 87,000 new IRS agents who are looking under every rock and stone to…
“Top Republicans who have spent months trying to dissuade Donald Trump from announcing another presidential campaign before the midterms are coming around to the idea, after an unprecedented search of…
“In the months before the FBI’s dramatic move to execute a search warrant at former president Donald Trump’s Florida home — and open his safe to look for items —…
“As many as 80,000 Russian troops have been wounded or killed in less than six months of fighting in Ukraine, the Pentagon said Monday, the first time the U.S. military…
“Long before Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) held up a massive spending bill that promised to create jobs, invest in clean energy and tax the rich — delivering on some of…
“A 17-year-old girl and her mother have been charged with a series of felonies and misdemeanors after an apparent medication abortion at home in Nebraska,” Motherboard reports. “The state’s case…
“President Joe Biden has appointed more judges to the federal courts at this stage in his tenure than any president since John F. Kennedy, and his appointees include a record…
“A grand jury in Mississippi has declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago, despite revelations about…
“President Biden signed a measure on Tuesday that would expand NATO to include Sweden and Finland in an effort to bolster the Western alliance nearly six months after President Vladimir…
Adam Serwer: “The merits of a potential government case against Donald Trump, and of the basis for the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago, cannot yet be evaluated, despite the assertions of…
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) told Julie Mason that while he has some “concerns” about the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago, he believes looking through Donald Trump’s personal safe…
Pew Research: “In 2016, about half of Republicans (47%) and slightly more than a third of Democrats (35%) said those in the other party were a lot or somewhat more…
Steve Benen: “If there was one thing Republicans cared about six years ago, it was how high-ranking officials dealt with classified materials. In fact, as recently as 2016, the GOP…
Jonathan Chait: “While it is factually true that there is no history of a former American president being raided by the Feds, these observations implicitly treat the FBI’s behavior as…
A new Monmouth poll finds that public opinion of Donald Trump, the January 6 insurrection and the 2024 president election hasn’t shifted after the recent January 6 Committee hearings began….
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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.
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