A new Emerson College poll in Virginia finds Terry McAuliffe (D) barely ahead of Glenn Youngkin (R) in the race for governor, 49% to 48%.


A new Emerson College poll in Virginia finds Terry McAuliffe (D) barely ahead of Glenn Youngkin (R) in the race for governor, 49% to 48%.
A Georgia grand jury has issued subpoenas to U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham and the attorney Rudy Giuliani as part of an investigation of possible criminal interference in that state’s 2020…
“I’ve had the opportunity to have him on my show more than once. I’ve said no every time. I don’t want to help him. I’m not interested in helping him.”…
“In 2018 just after he announced his retirement, Justice Anthony Kennedy, who sat at the ideological center of the court for much of his 30-year tenure, met with a groups…
Wholesale gasoline prices are down nearly 30 cents so far today, Bloomberg reports. Save to Favorites
Matt Labash: “For as long as he’s been a public self-servant, the towel boy who served as Donald Trump’s fourth and last chief of staff has been a professional sleazebag.”…
CNN: “More than a week after the abortion decision, top Biden aides are still wrangling over releasing new actions in response, despite the draft decision leaking six weeks earlier.” Save…
Washington Post: “Hutchinson’s account of cleaning Trump-strewn ketchup off White House walls and pleading with her onetime boss, former chief of staff Mark Meadows, to get off his phone and…
Former Trump White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney writes in the Charlotte Observer that Republicans should be paying attention to the January 6 Committee. “That is because, despite all…
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) shared a compilation of around a dozen vulgar and threatening phone calls to his congressional office. Save to Favorites
An intercepted phone call reveals that Russians believe their own commanders are selling troop location information in Ukraine for money, the Daily Beast reports. Save to Favorites
New York Times: “More than four months into the war, Ukrainians remain angry and defiant. But among civilians — millions of them displaced, out of work and living in fear,…
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney (D) told CBS Philadelphia that he’s so fed up with having to worry about guns and “bad” things happening that he’ll be “happy” to not be…
A new Monmouth poll finds President Biden’s overall job rating continues to trend downward. Currently, just 36% approve of the job he is doing while 58% disapprove. Just 10% of…
A new Gallup poll finds that only 38% of Americans are “extremely proud” of being an American, while another 27% say they are “very” proud. “This record-low level of extreme…
“Six decades after the historic trial in Jerusalem of Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief engineers of the Holocaust, a new Israeli documentary series has delivered a dramatic coda: the…
The wife of Brittney Griner told CBS News that President Joe Biden still has not responded to the handwritten letter that the basketball star sent to him from a Russian…
“I’m confident that the bill we passed a week and a half ago is going to save lives. It will make a difference. But it is only the beginning. Today…
Katherine Stewart: “The shape of the Christian nationalist movement in the post-Roe future is coming into view, and it should terrify anyone concerned for the future of constitutional democracy.” “The…
Washington Post: “More than a year after Congress approved a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, Republicans in nearly two dozen states have ratcheted up efforts to tap some of those…
“Kansas voters have said no to Kris Kobach twice over the past four years. But he is nonetheless betting that this can be the year he makes a political comeback,”…
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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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