A Florida woman in labor made her husband take a detour from the hospital to vote, WFLA reports.
Said an elections worker: “She was calm. The husband was a little more nervous.”
Save to FavoritesA Florida woman in labor made her husband take a detour from the hospital to vote, WFLA reports.
Said an elections worker: “She was calm. The husband was a little more nervous.”
Save to FavoritesSen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), the 82-year-old progressive icon, announced on Monday that he will run for re-election, Axios reports. Save to Favorites
Donald Trump called the Republican party the “party of fertlization because we are for the women” when talking about abortion rights in an interview with Fox Detroit. He also took…
“As Vladimir Putin persists in his bloody campaign to conquer Ukraine, the Russian leader is directing an equally momentous transformation at home — re-engineering his country into a regressive, militarized…
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) told NBC News he would support ditching the filibuster to codify Roe v. Wade. Save to Favorites
“The judge in the Donald Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan on Monday held the former president in contempt and fined him $1,000 for once again violating a gag order prohibiting…
“Democrats are preparing an aggressive new immigration strategy months after Republicans blocked a bipartisan border security bill aimed at easing record-high illegal crossings along the southern border,” NBC News reports….
“Frustrated by the seemingly endless cash flowing to Democrats, Republicans aiming to retake the Senate have rallied around candidates with plenty of their own money,” the AP reports. “The goal…
ABC News: “Typically, independent candidates must undergo the painstaking, expensive process of gathering thousands of signatures from registered voters in each state in order to qualify for ballot access.” “But…
Anne Applebaum: “Autocrats in China, Russia, and elsewhere are now making common cause with MAGA Republicans to discredit liberalism and freedom around the world.” Save to Favorites
“A U.S. crackdown on banks financing trade in goods for Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has made it much more difficult to move money in and out of Russia,” the…
Donald Trump attended his first Formula 1 race and his campaign took credit for the win, NBC News reports. Said Trump spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt: “The Trump-endorsed car won the race….
Tiffany Smiley (R), who ran unsuccessfully against Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) in 2022, will announce today that she’s challenging Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA), National Review reports. This sets up “a…
“The Federal Election Commission quietly issued an advisory opinion last week allowing candidates to raise unlimited money for issue-advocacy groups working on ballot measures in elections in which those candidates…
“Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) promises she’ll force a vote to oust Speaker Mike Johnson this week. This morning, we have fresh insight about what might happen when the vote…
Axios obtained audio of Donald Trump commenting on various vice presidential hopefuls at a donor gathering this weekend — and he was positive about everybody. Another sign a pick isn’t…
“The titanic Biden-Trump election likely will be decided by roughly 6% of voters in just six states, top strategists in both parties tell us,” Axios reports. A Trump insider said…
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) told 60 Minutes that Democrats “effectively have been governing as if we were in the majority.” Save to Favorites
“The indictment of Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) on Friday not only sidelined an outspoken moderate lawmaker and put a potentially flippable seat on the 2024 map, it picked at a…
Most voters it seems are not thrilled with their choices for president. A recent Monmouth poll found about 1 in 6 voters hold unfavorable views of both Donald Trump and…
Kellyanne Conway and David Plouffe have launched a new podcast called The Campaign Managers. Save to Favorites
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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