“If you have any common sense, you know she’s an anchor on the party. She is weighing us down.”
— Georgia GOP elections official Gabriel Sterling, quoted by Politico, on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).
Save to Favorites“If you have any common sense, you know she’s an anchor on the party. She is weighing us down.”
— Georgia GOP elections official Gabriel Sterling, quoted by Politico, on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).
Save to Favorites“I didn’t eat my dog. I didn’t shoot my dog. I loved my dog, and my dog loved me.” — Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), quoted by HuffPost, dismissing comparisons to…
“A panel of federal judges has tossed out Louisiana’s new congressional map, striking the state’s second majority-Black district just months after it was signed into law,” Politico reports. “The ruling,…
Tim Kennedy (D) is projected to win the special election for New York’s 26th congressional district, the Washington Post reports. “When Kennedy is sworn in as a member of the…
“Hundreds of police officers in riot gear marched onto the campus of Columbia University in Upper Manhattan late Tuesday, where protesters had occupied a campus building, as clashes over the…
Drenda Keesee (R), a right-wing pastor and broadcaster, said that she’s running for office because Jesus personally told her to. Said Keesee: “He was holding my cheeks, and I was…
“The District of Columbia’s Office of Disciplinary Counsel issued a recommendation this week battering the credibility of former Donald Trump Justice Department attorney Jeffrey Clark, saying Clark’s ‘dishonest attempt to…
“Josh Mandel (R), the former Ohio state treasurer and multiple-time U.S. Senate candidate, is facing a threat of jail time due to his years-old and increasingly contentious divorce case,” the…
Louisiana Republicans pushed back votes on several bills that would have added exceptions to the state’s near-total abortion ban, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports. Save to Favorites
“This gag order is totally unconstitutional. I’m the Republican candidate for president of the United States. I received this honor in record time. Nobody has ever gone faster… And I’m…
“An appellate court has denied former President Trump’s bid to have Judge Juan Merchan recused from his hush money trial,” ABC News reports. Save to Favorites
Puck: “On a brisk Friday evening earlier this month, David Sacks and Elon Musk convened a dozen or so of America’s most powerful business leaders for dinner at Sacks’ $23…
New York Times: “The reactions suggested that even as Republicans are waging an internal war over aiding Ukraine — one that is continuing even after the funding package cleared Congress…
Donald Trump “appears to have fallen asleep while listening to testimony — at times appearing to stir and then falling back to sleep,” NBC News reports. “Trump’s eyes were closed…
Donald Trump has begun to remove the social media posts cited by Judge Juan Merchan in today’s gag order ruling, ABC News reports. Save to Favorites
“The Biden campaign is mounting a concerted push to attack former President Donald J. Trump over statements he made to Time magazine in a wide-ranging interview published Tuesday morning, particularly…
“Donald Trump will make another stop in Wisconsin this week for a campaign rally as his criminal hush money trial continues in New York,” USA Today reports. Save to Favorites
“Rishi Sunak urged Conservative Party faithful in a pre-election speech to take part in ‘the greatest comeback in political history,’ a tacit admission of the long odds the prime minister…
“Fox News appears to be taking Hunter Biden’s lawsuit threat quite seriously,” the Daily Beast reports. “The network has quietly pulled down its six-part ‘mock trial’ series from its digital…
“The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide ripple effects…
“When a lawyer for former President Donald Trump argued before the Supreme Court last week that his client should be immune from charges of plotting to subvert the last election,…
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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