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“President Trump campaigned very effectively in 2024, berating Democrats for high levels of inflation and promising to bring prices down once he won the election. Democrats’ messaging on the economy…
Senate Republicans are leaning toward not proposing an alternative to Democrats’ health care subsidies legislation during a much-watched floor vote this week, Semafor reports. Save to Favorites
A new Yale Youth Poll finds young voters now overwhelmingly disapprove of President Trump’s job performance—a stark shift from their spring 2025 poll. Kamala Harris won the 2024 votes of…
Former Rep. Colin Allred (D-TX) announced he would abandon his Senate bid and would instead run for the House, Punchbowl News reports. Allred’s decision comes as Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX)…
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Paul Krugman: “There was a time, not so long ago, when America was the leader of the free world. It was the first among equals within an alliance of nations…
“In 2016, as then-presidential candidate Donald Trump vowed that US troops would carry out even his most extreme battlefield orders as commander in chief — some of which former military…
“Senate Republican leaders are hoping that President Trump will intervene to quell a conservative rebellion in the upper chamber against a package of spending bills that Senate Majority Leader John…
“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said negotiators discussing a US-brokered peace initiative remain divided over territory as President Donald Trump expressed disappointment in Kyiv’s handling of the deal,” Bloomberg reports. Save…
“Gov. Andy Beshear has spent years building a distinct political identity in the reliably red commonwealth of Kentucky by winning statewide as a Democrat even as Republican power has surrounded…
A new Gallup poll finds 57% of Americans approve of the Affordable Care Act, three points higher than last year’s reading and a record high since Gallup started asking the…
David Axelrod: “Donald Trump recaptured the White House in part by relentlessly exploiting Joe Biden’s failure to heed widespread concerns about the rising cost of living.” “Now, bizarrely, President Trump…
The Economist: “You might think that in Trumpworld a new National Security Strategy would not count for all that much. John Bolton, a national security adviser in Donald Trump’s first…
Playbook: “The first reviews are in … and it seems Donald Trump’s performance at the Kennedy Center Honors wasn’t half bad. The president had expected to get panned by critics…
ProPublica: “For months, the Trump administration has been accusing its political enemies of mortgage fraud for claiming more than one primary residence. “President Donald Trump branded one foe who did…
“President Trump’s firing spree at federal agencies has snowballed into a Supreme Court showdown over how modern American government should work,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Dangling by a thread…
“American households are nearing the end of the year feeling a lot more dour about the economy than they did at the beginning, even as they keep spending,” the Wall…
“Republicans have yet to coalesce around a healthcare strategy just days before an expected vote on extending enhanced Obamacare subsidies, triggering concerns from some GOP lawmakers about a voter backlash,”…
“China got the world’s attention last January when it announced that its trade surplus for goods and services had hit almost $1 trillion, an excess of exports to imports that…
“Republicans want to put the economy at the center of their midterm message as they seek to protect their majorities in Congress. But as cost-of-living concerns mount across the political…
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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