Former President Donald Trump will meet next week with Republicans running against Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and endorse one in the next few months, the Associated Press reports.


Former President Donald Trump will meet next week with Republicans running against Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and endorse one in the next few months, the Associated Press reports.
Ron Brownstein: “During his term in the White House, Donald Trump governed as a wartime president—with blue America, rather than any foreign country, as the adversary. He sought to use…
“The House appeared on track Thursday to formally rebuke Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) for setting off a fire alarm in a House office building in September, the latest in a…
“Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s announcement that he would leave Congress came as little surprise to his closest colleagues, but his decision to do so a year before the end of…
A new Associated Press-NORC poll finds Democratic views on how President Biden is handling the decades-old conflict between Israelis and Palestinians have rebounded slightly. “The shift occurred during a time…
The Messenger: “On Thursday morning, Trump is expected to return to New York Supreme Court for the defense’s final expert witness: New York University research professor Eli Bartov, who focuses…
A new Wall Street Journal poll finds Donald Trump leading the Republican presidential race with 59%, followed by Nikki Haley at 15% and Ron DeSantis at 14%. For members: Nikki…
A police officer died Wednesday after a patrol vehicle was pushed into him following a head-on collision with a stolen vehicle driven by Sen. Kevin Cramer’s (R-ND) son, the Fargo…
“Former President Trump, if elected, would build a Cabinet and White House staff based mainly on two imperatives: pre-vetted loyalty to him and a commitment to stretch legal and governance…
“The White House on Wednesday announced $4.8 billion in student debt relief for some 80,300 people,” Axios reports. “That brings the total approved student debt cancellation by the Biden administration…
New York Times: “The transgression that Florida Republicans were most eager to discuss around the State Capitol this week was Florida State University getting snubbed by the College Football Playoff….
“Donald Trump keeps returning the 2024 presidential race to the ground where Joe Biden wants to fight it,” Politico reports. “After Trump told a Fox News town hall he would…
Playbook: “Score them how you want. But this much seems indisputable: Nothing happened last night that changes the fundamentals of the race and the fact that Donald Trump is on…
“A New York man who is running for the congressional seat previously held by George Santos was convicted this week of charges relating to the Jan. 6 riot after he…
“The Republican-led House Ethics Committee has reached out to at least one witness as part of its investigation into GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz to schedule an interview in the coming…
“This is the fourth debate, the fourth debate that you would be voted in the first 20 minutes as the most obnoxious blowhard in America.” — Chris Christie, quoted by…
Four candidates — Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie and Vivek Ramaswamy — will meet tonight for the fourth Republican presidential debate. Donald Trump is skipping the debate once again….
“The House is lining up a final vote to censure Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) for triggering a fire alarm after Republicans defeated a Democratic-led effort to block the measure,” Politico…
“Republicans on Wednesday blocked an emergency spending bill to fund the war in Ukraine, demanding strict new border restrictions in exchange and severely jeopardizing President Biden’s push to replenish the…
“Well, I think that he’s a pathetic figure in many ways in our history. But I also think it’s important not to minimize the damage that he did, because even…
“Fulton County prosecutors could call several senior officials who served in the Trump administration and Georgia’s top elected leaders as witnesses during the trial for their election interference case,” the…
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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