Google informed its advertising partners Wednesday that beginning Jan. 14, its platforms will block all political ads, as well as any related to the Capitol insurrection, “following the unprecedented events of the past week and ahead of the upcoming presidential inauguration,” Axios reports.
Save to FavoritesNew York Times: “In a significant breakthrough in the case, investigators have now pinpointed a person seen on video of the riot who attacked several officers with bear spray, including…
Playbook: “Three people close to Trump tell me that he’s stewing anew over Kevin McCarthy. It’s become so frequent that his advisers think the House minority leader may be in…
Washington Post: “Over meals and many Diet Cokes, Trump has already started building his post-White House political operation and cementing his role as the party’s de facto leader. He has…
“Ever since the Affordable Care Act became law in 2010 — a big deal, in the (sanitized) words of Vice President Joe Biden — Democrats have itched to fix its…
Washington Examiner: “Within the sunny confines of the Conservative Political Action Conference, it’s as if former President Donald Trump did not fail to win reelection in November. He is simply…
Wall Street Journal: “Backed by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), two committee chairmen are working on a new, more limited proposal that would use the tax system to prod…
“States should maintain Covid-19 restrictions such as mask wearing and capacity limitations as case numbers halt their decline, the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said…
“The early ambitions of Joe Biden’s presidency are quickly running into the guardrails of archaic Senate rules, testing his willingness to remake an institution he reveres to fulfill many of…
Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is Donald Trump Jr.’s girlfriend, told the CPAC crowd that former President Donald Trump “from his desk as Mar-a-Lago will accomplish more for America in the next…
BuzzFeed News “spoke with more than three dozen people, including more than two dozen former students, their friends, and their relatives, who described or corroborated instances of sexual harassment and…
“House Republicans were furious over the summer when the House made unpresented changes allowing lawmakers to designate a proxy and vote on their behalf amid traveling concerns due to the…
“The House passed President Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package early Saturday morning almost entirely along partisan lines,” CBS News reports. “The bill now goes the Senate, although it included a minimum…
“Ben Sasse is about to be censured by the Nebraska GOP for his antagonistic stance toward Donald Trump — again. But he doesn’t care,” Politico reports. “As Sasse’s fellow Republican…
John Durham, the federal prosecutor who Attorney General William Barr assigned to investigate possible criminal wrongdoing in Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, announced he was resigning. Save to FavoritesShare on TwitterShare…
Donald Trump Jr. told Fox News that there are “plenty” of Republican lawmakers who should get primary challengers. Said Trump: “I don’t think we have to blindly support, you know,…
“One month after Donald Trump left office, thousands of his conservative allies and other far-right leaders on Friday began trying to center the Republican Party around the grievances of his…
Washington Post: “In less than two months, lawmakers in at least eight states have taken formal steps to support or oppose D.C. becoming the 51st state, an unprecedented nationwide response…
Minnesota Public Radio: “North Dakota has lots of coal. It also has strong and consistent winds. It might be the perfect spot to showcase the long-awaited ‘energy transition’ from climate-warming…
Philip Bump has a telling look at some of the big-name CPAC speakers from — and what happened to them in the years to come. “Trump was followed by Rep….
North Dakota House Republicans are calling for state Rep. Luke Simons (R) to resign after legislative staff reports of threats and sexual harassment came to light this week, the Bismarck…
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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