A top Republican official in Wyoming floated the idea of seceding from the United States after Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) embraced the impeachment of President Trump, the Washington Examiner reports.
Save to Favorites“Former Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) is wading back into Georgia politics weeks after her runoff defeat with the start of a new voter registration group aimed at helping Republicans recover…
Philadelphia Inquirer: “About 19,000 Pennsylvanians have left the Republican Party since Jan 6. That’s a drop in the bucket for a state with more than 8.8 million registered voters, and…
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) took a baby step closer to a U.S. Senate run in 2022, telling a radio talk show host he’s “definitely open to it,” the…
“In his first post-presidential appearance, Donald Trump plans to send the message next weekend that he is Republicans’ ‘presumptive 2024 nominee’ with a vise grip on the party’s base,” Axios…
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) will not vote to confirm President Biden’s nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget, Neera Tanden, Axios reports. Playbook: “Tanden’s best hope for confirmation…
Washington Post: “Critics have charged that the Abbott administration’s response to the storm has at times resembled the government failures after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005.” “The anger…
Wall Street Journal: “Prosecutors would face clear challenges in bringing any case… Tom Firestone, a lawyer with Baker & McKenzie LLP and former assistant U.S. attorney in New York, said…
“Former Trump White House aide Max Miller is expected to wage a primary challenge against GOP Rep. Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio, the latest opponent to take on a House Republican…
Coming soon: Tuesday Night Massacre: Four Senate Elections and the Radicalization of the Republican Party by Marc C. Johnson. “The turnover of these seats not only allowed Republicans to gain…
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) delivered a pointed rebuke of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) following his much-criticized trip to Cancun, Mexico, as a winter disaster rocked Texas last week, CNN reports….
Byron York: “For the rioters who are alleged to have committed serious criminal acts, more information is coming out in court papers filed in the Justice Department cases against them….
“With the US approaching 500,000 Covid-19 deaths, plans are underway for President Joe Biden to mark the moment this week,” CNN reports. “The President is planning to deliver remarks and…
“It sounded so ambitious at first blush: 100 million vaccination shots in 100 days,” the AP reports. “Now, one month into his presidency, Joe Biden is on a glide path…
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) told CNN that he would not support former President Trump if he ran for the White House again in 2024, pointing to the deadly riot at the…
BuzzFeed: “In April 2019, Facebook was preparing to ban one of the internet’s most notorious spreaders of misinformation and hate, Infowars founder Alex Jones… Mark Zuckerberg didn’t consider the Infowars…
When asked by a USA Today/Suffolk poll to describe what happened during the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 58% of Trump voters call it “mostly an antifa-inspired attack that…
A Suffolk University-USA Today poll found that 46% of Republicans said they would abandon the GOP and join the Trump party if the former president decided to create one. Only 27% said they would stay…
Wall Street Journal: “Employees of big technology firms were a key source of contributions for Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, newly released campaign finance records show, eclipsing donations from employees at…
Washington Post: “Graham is set to visit the former president’s gilded Mar-a-Lago Club on Sunday to spend two days golfing and dining with Trump. He has spoken to the former…
New York Times: “When President Biden nominated Judge Garland last month to be attorney general, the news conjured up his ordeal in 2016 as President Barack Obama’s thwarted nominee to…
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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