Speaker Nancy Pelosi received communion during a papal mass — a notable break between the Vatican and the San Francisco archbishop who denied her the sacrament due to her stance on abortion, Politico reports.


Speaker Nancy Pelosi received communion during a papal mass — a notable break between the Vatican and the San Francisco archbishop who denied her the sacrament due to her stance on abortion, Politico reports.
A.B. Stoddard: “Just 24 hours after last week’s waste-of-time Republican primary debate, GOP donors still hoping to stop former President Donald Trump set out to narrow the field between Nikki…
In 2010, Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor and Kevin McCarthy published a book which they hoped would blaze a trail for the Republican party. Instead, the same populist forces that defeated…
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) “definitively” called for a vote against any procedural motion to delay the motion to vacate, Punchbowl News reports. He also instructed Democrats to vote…
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told the House Republican conference that he would bring up the motion to vacate — filed last night by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) — sometime early…
Out today: Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America by Steve Inskeep. The book lays bare “a great politician’s strategy in a country divided” while offering “lessons…
When asked if he would pursue a power sharing agreement with Democrats to save his job, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said: “That doesn’t work, we’re in the majority. You don’t…
Behind closed doors, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) emphasized the need for Democrats to stick together on any votes on Kevin McCarthy’s speakership, ABC News reports. He didn’t show…
“This is their civil war. They can’t govern. They have no coalition… We just talked about our unity and unity has always been our power and that’s not going to…
“Donald Trump returned to a New York court Tuesday after a fiery start to his business fraud lawsuit trial,” the AP reports. “After Monday’s opening statements, Tuesday’s court action is…
“Not my monkey; not my circus. I’m a hard no.” — Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), quoted by NBC News, on whether he would vote to save Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA)….
After Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) filed his motion to vacate and left the House floor yesterday, “the Democratic side of the House erupted in laughter,” Punchbowl News reports.Save to Favorites
Speaker Kevin McCarthy told House Republicans he would bring the motion-to-vacate resolution up for a vote during today’s first vote series, CNN reports. It’s likely to take place around 2…
A record-high percentage of Americans trust Republicans to manage the economy over Democrats, according to a new Gallup survey. Some 53% of respondents said the GOP were more likely to…
Speaker Kevin McCarthy told CNBC that he won’t give Democrats anything to buy their votes today on motion to vacate. Said McCarthy: “They will decide whatever they’re going to do….
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) became speaker by making massive concessions to the right-wing of his caucus. Although things are fluid this morning, early reports suggest at least seven of those…
Former Detroit Police Chief James Craig (R) launched a campaign for Michigan’s open U.S. Senate seat, positioning himself as a “passionate” public servant and Trump-friendly outsider in a field of…
“Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson confronted top White House officials late Sunday, demanding they take fast and concrete steps to address a migrant crisis they believe…
“The first time Donald Trump talked privately about shooting missiles into Mexico to take out drug labs, as far as his former aides can recall, was in early 2020,” the…
New York prosecutors said that Donald Trump “wanted to get higher on the Forbes billionaires list and save a fortune on loan terms by overvaluing his properties,” Bloomberg reports. “Clips…
Donald Trump’s campaign called on the RNC to cancel presidential debates so the party can focus instead on how Democrats are supposedly stealing the 2024 election.Save to Favorites
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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