“A judge in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, ordered polls in the county to stay open until 10 p.m. ET after voters reported some polling locations running out of paper for voting machines,” Fox News reports.


“A judge in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, ordered polls in the county to stay open until 10 p.m. ET after voters reported some polling locations running out of paper for voting machines,” Fox News reports.
“Tara Reade, the American who accused President Joe Biden of sexual assault, has moved to Russia,” The Messenger reports. “Reade made the announcement from Russia, joined by Maria Butina, a…
Jonathan Chait: “The simplest way to understand the debt-ceiling agreement is that the two parties were focused on different, orthogonal objectives. Democrats wished to minimize the direct harm of the…
Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) claimed that Gov. Ron DeSantis threatened to back primary challenges to certain members of Congress if they endorsed Donald Trump for president over him, Yahoo News…
“Former Trump White House official Peter Navarro will stand trial in September on contempt of Congress charges filed after he refused to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan….
Rosalynn Carter, the former first lady of the United States and wife of former President Jimmy Carter, has dementia, CNN reports. Save to Favorites
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) warned on Fox News that he’s ready to hold FBI director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress if he doesn’t meet today’s deadline to produce a…
A new East Carolina University poll finds West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice (R) trouncing Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) in a U.S. Senate race, 54% to 32%. Save to Favorites
“Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) on Tuesday became the first Republican to publicly support ousting Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) over the debt ceiling deal he struck with President Biden as conservative…
David French: “There is a certain irony in discussions of masculinity. The group that is most convinced of a crisis of masculinity, the American right, is also busy emasculating itself…
A “furious” Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) excoriated Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), declaring at a Freedom Caucus news conference that the debt ceiling bill has “torn asunder” the House GOP Conference,…
Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT) “plans to resign his seat in Congress, possibly as soon as this week,” the Salt Lake Tribune reports. “Stewart announced his plan to resign, citing ongoing…
President Joe Biden will host British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at the White House next week for talks on Ukraine, climate issues and more, the AP reports. Save to Favorites
“Look, one of the things that I hear some of you guys saying is, ‘Why doesn’t Biden say what a good deal it is?’ Why would Biden say what a…
“On a House Freedom Caucus call Monday night, Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) floated using the motion to vacate, a rule that would allow any member of Congress to force a…
“India and China have ejected each other’s journalists in recent weeks, virtually wiping out mutual media access and deepening a rift between the world’s two most populous nations,” the Wall…
Donald Trump promised if elected he would sign an executive order on day one of his second term in office effectively ending birthright citizenship. Save to Favorites
Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH) “had made serious preparations to run for Senate, with his team arranging a campaign staff and word leaking out in Ohio Republican circles for weeks about…
Daily Beast: “As Trump’s legal troubles keep growing—with criminal and civil investigations in New York City, Washington, and Atlanta—so too does the unwieldy band of attorneys who simply can’t get…
Noah Smith: “The recent fight over the debt ceiling, however, seems more like a return to the pointless obstructionism and grandstanding that characterized politics in the 2010s. There was absolutely…
A new Monmouth poll finds a majority of Republican voters feel Donald Trump would be their strongest nominee in the 2024 election. “Nearly half (45%) of Republican voters – including…
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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