A video from Punchbowl shows hundreds of Republicans and their staff members — most not wearing masks despite a raging pandemic — in an undisclosed secure area to protect them from the mob that was storming the U.S. Capitol.
Save to Favorites“President Biden will nominate a former U.S. Postal Service executive, a leading voting rights advocate and a former postal union leader to the mail service’s governing board,” the Washington Post…
Virginia Republicans voted last night to hold a drive-through convention at Liberty University to nominate their 2021 statewide candidates, but according to the Lynchburg News & Advance, they didn’t get…
Washington Post: “When social media website Parler’s founding CEO John Matze was pushed out last month, it was at the direction of a quiet but powerful political megadonor backing the…
“George Clooney is producing a docuseries about the decades-long sexual abuse scandal in the athletic department at Ohio State University, where Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) was once an assistant coach…
“The Manhattan district attorney’s office has subpoenaed financial records related to Steve Bannon’s crowd-funding border-wall effort, signaling that its criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump’s chief strategist is advancing,”…
Donald Trump Jr. was deposed as part of the Washington, DC, attorney general’s lawsuit alleging the misuse of Trump inaugural funds, CNN reports. Save to FavoritesShare on TwitterShare on FacebookShare…
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said he expects to make a decision about whether to seek re-election “sometime in September, October or November’ of this year, the Des Moines Register reports….
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY), the chairman of the House Democratic campaign arm, said he’s doing a deep dive into the party’s election failures in 2020, including a look at…
Gallup: “Gallup’s latest update on lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender identification finds 5.6% of U.S. adults identifying as LGBT. The current estimate is up from 4.5% in Gallup’s previous update…
Politico: “Secretaries of state will be on the ballot in five of the 10 closest presidential battlegrounds next year.” Save to FavoritesShare on TwitterShare on FacebookShare on LinkedInShare on Email
Politico: “Despite efforts to diversify the Hill over the past several years, the racial makeup of House and Senate staffs don’t align with their districts and voting bases. Among top-level…
Lindsey Boylan accused New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) of sexual harassment and bullying “so pervasive that it is not only condoned but expected.” “His inappropriate behavior toward women was…
“Days after South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg (R) fatally struck a man while driving in September, detectives told the Republican official they had found a pair of broken reading…
Alex Pareene: “The press often describes him berating and threatening his ostensible political allies in the Democratic Party, notes that he seemingly faces no electoral penalty for doing so, and…
Morning Consult: “While Republicans offered the lowest amount of support, more than half of GOP voters still back the stimulus package at 60 percent. Thirty percent said they somewhat or…
The House Republican leadership, including Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), at a press conference: REPORTER: Do you believe former President Trump should speaking at CPAC? McCARTHY:…
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ (R) profile is growing, and Nikki Fried (D) has noticed, Politico reports. “As DeSantis quickly becomes the national conservative media’s favorite governor and basks in recent…
Bloomberg: “Tens of thousands of Republicans have left the party in the weeks since the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, a move that sidelines members who could have…
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David Hopkins: “The idea of the self-declared single-term president has had a romantic appeal to editorial-page writers (and few others) since well before Biden became the oldest person in history…
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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