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“The problem the Republican Party has is that they got really stupid people that vote in their primaries, and… really stupid people demand to have really stupid leaders. That’s where…
“Some allies of former President Donald Trump are urging him to publicly release surveillance footage of FBI agents executing a search warrant on his Mar-a-Lago residence, a proposal that has…
“Contributions totaling $5 million to Donald Trump’s charity in 2007 and 2009 were among $19.6 million in unrecorded company expenses Vince McMahon paid out before he stepped down from World…
“Federal Reserve officials viewed their efforts to tame inflation as beginning to have an effect, according to the minutes of their meeting in July, but they also remained committed to…
“Former president Donald Trump bombarded his supporters with more than 100 emails asking for money based on the FBI’s search of his Florida Mar-a-Lago Club for classified materials last week….
Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-FL) Republican primary opponent Mark Lombardo (R) suggested in a new attack ad that the incumbent congressman is the possible informant involved in the FBI’s raid on…
New York Times: “The plea deal will allow Mr. Weisselberg, who was facing up to 15 years in prison, to spend as little as 100 days behind bars… And it…
“Ohio Senate President Matt Huffman (R) wants to take the state’s congressional map to the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that the Ohio Supreme Court overstepped by meddling in mapmaking,” the…
“A long-simmering clash between two branches of Georgia government exploded into public view on Wednesday, when an attorney for Gov. Brian Kemp (R) moved to kill a subpoena seeking the…
Depending upon how you slice the numbers, Rep. Liz Cheney’s (R-WY) Republican primary loss last night might be the biggest incumbent loss of the 21st century, the Washington Post reports….
“Allen Weisselberg, the Trump Organization’s finance chief, will say in Manhattan court Thursday that he conspired with several of the ex-president’s companies when he pleads guilty to state tax crimes,”…
Ron Brownstein: “In some ways, a Cheney 2024 presidential campaign would be unprecedented: There aren’t any clear examples of a candidate running a true kamikaze campaign.” “Cheney would have no…
Timothy O’Brien: “Jared Kushner’s new private equity firm got $2 billion from Saudi Arabia because maybe that’s how you can cash in when your investing experience is slender but your…
Vanity Fair: “Every single criminal investigation and civil lawsuit the ex-president is currently facing, including the ones you’ve probably never heard about.” Save to Favorites
A Republican-led House panel advanced a near-total abortion ban — with no exceptions for rape or incest — largely along party lines in a 13-7 vote, the Columbia State reports….
“North Korea fired two cruise missiles on Wednesday morning, returning to weapons activity for the first time in two months after having recently declared victory over its Covid-19 outbreak,” the…
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said that a man who fraudulently sought absentee ballots to prove voter fraud exists, shouldn’t be prosecuted, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. Said Johnson: “I certainly…
A new University of North Florida poll in Florida finds Val Demings (D) leading Sen. Marco Rubio (R) in the U.S. Senate race, 48% to 44%. Save to Favorites
A new Marquette Law School Poll in Wisconsin finds Mandela Barnes (D) leading Sen. Ron Johnson (R) in the U.S. Senate race, 51% to 44%. In June, Barnes led by…
A new YouGov poll finds Americans overwhelmingly approve of the FBI’s search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago beach club to retrieve classified documents that he took from the White…
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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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