A new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds Donald Trump’s favorable rating at just 25%.

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“María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader, repeatedly praised President Trump on Monday during a prime-time appearance on Fox News, her first televised interview since the United States captured Nicolás…
President Trump told NBC News the United States would be involved in Venezuela for the foreseeable future and that the country was not ready to hold elections. Said Trump: “No,…
“No place was hit harder than Cuba by the shock waves that Saturday morning’s U.S. military seizure of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro sent throughout Latin America and the world,” the Washington…
“Stephen Miller, a top aide to President Trump, asserted on Monday that Greenland rightfully belonged to the United States and that the Trump administration could seize the semiautonomous Danish territory…
“Even before American forces blasted their way into Venezuela’s capital and seized President Nicolás Maduro on Saturday, the nation was already facing dire economic prospects,” the New York Times reports….
“For decades, Cuban intelligence agents were Cold War stars, dismantling plots to assassinate Fidel Castro, recruiting senior U.S. government officials and protecting heads of state from Angola to Panama,” the…
“Tim Walz was nearly elected vice president in 2024. Just 14 months later, the Minnesota governor is ending his political career amid scandal, personal burnout and feuds with former allies…
“Nobody knows exactly how much it will cost to rebuild Venezuela’s broken-down oilfields, but everyone agrees it’s a lot — and there’s no guarantee that U.S. companies will be chomping…
“President Trump has offered a variety of reasons for his intense, pugilistic ambitions in Venezuela, Greenland and other hemispheric players,” Axios reports. “But one tie binds them all: They hold…
Top Senate and House lawmakers from both parties emerged from a classified briefing given by President Trump‘s most senior officials with little clarity on the future of Venezuela, The Hill…
The Atlantic: “Danish officials think they know how Donald Trump might seize Greenland. In a late-night Truth Social post, the president announces that the Danish territory is now an American…
Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner (D) raised $4.7 million in the final quarter of the year, Axios reports. “The fundraising haul suggests that Platner — a Bernie Sanders-endorsed populist…
“After the U.S. operation to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, tensions between President Trump and Colombian President Gustavo Petro are boiling over,” Axios reports. “What Trump has called a ‘successful’…
Wall Street Journal: “President Trump had a vague but tantalizing message for a couple of American oil executives roughly a month before the U.S. captured Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro: ‘Get…
Jonathan Chait: “The ‘Donroe Doctrine,’ as he calls his assertion of regional supremacy—a Trumpian extension of the 19th-century Monroe Doctrine, which established the United States’ claim over the Americas in…
The U.S. is making plans to try to intercept a fleeing oil tanker that Russia has claimed ownership of, setting up a possible confrontation between Washington and the Kremlin over…
President Trump told NBC News in a telephone interview that he will be top person in charge of Venezuela. Save to Favorites
“A recent classified U.S. intelligence assessment determined top members of Nicolás Maduro’s regime—including Vice President Delcy Rodríguez—would be best positioned to lead a temporary government in Caracas and maintain near-term…
“Greenland’s prime minister on Monday called for renewed talks with the United States and urged against panic after President Donald Trump repeated that he wanted to annex the mineral-rich Arctic…
New York Times: “The pardon proclamation saved them, opening prison doors and ending all of the criminal prosecutions related to the Capitol attack. Even more, it gave a presidential stamp…
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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