“Ashish Jha, the White House Covid-19 czar, will be leaving his post next week in the latest sign the Biden administration is confident the country is on stronger footing in its fight against the virus,” the Wall Street Journal reports.


“Ashish Jha, the White House Covid-19 czar, will be leaving his post next week in the latest sign the Biden administration is confident the country is on stronger footing in its fight against the virus,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
This morning’s Washington Post/ABC News poll showing Donald Trump beating Joe Biden by 10 percentage points in a general election match up is clearly an outlier. It’s obvious from perusing…
“Gov. Chris Christie has become a regular sight all over New Hampshire. He’s spent some time in South Carolina, too, since announcing his 2024 bid for president. But there is…
Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) said that Sen. John Fetterman’s (D-PA) choice of “worker’s clothes” prove he’s a communist who is “demonstrating his allegiance to Marxist principles.” Save to Favorites
A Washington Post-ABC News poll finds President Biden “struggling to gain approval from a skeptical public, with dissatisfaction growing over his handling of the economy and immigration, a rising share…
Peter Navarro called his former Trump White House female colleagues “pimp ladies” in bizarre tweet defending Rudy Giuliani from sexual assault claims. Cassidy Hutchinson claims in her new book that…
“Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Saturday he still lacks support from a handful of GOP hardliners to put a Republican stopgap measure on the floor next week, making a government shutdown…
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) called for Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) to resign from the Senate on Saturday, making him the first senator to call for his resignation, Politico reports. Save…
“Speaker Kevin McCarthy is backtracking on his plan to remove Ukraine aid from a massive military spending bill as Republicans scramble to find a way forward on funding the government,”…
“The arsonists are out there, number one, whining that their house is on fire; number two, are going to want credit that they put the fire out; and then number…
Rep. Andy Kim (D-NJ) announced he will challenge indicted Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) in a primary. Said Kim: “After calls to resign, Senator Menendez said ‘I am not going anywhere.’…
Henry Olsen has some advice for how Speaker Kevin McCarthy could get tough with his GOP critics: “Target their political aspirations.” “McCarthy can damage those plans by setting a clear…
Speaker Kevin McCarthy used a conference call today to pitch House Republicans on short-term funding bill that would keep the government open until mid November, Punchbowl News reports. The strategy…
New York Times: “If Mr. Kennedy does decide to leave the party of his famous father and uncles to run in the general election, one potential landing spot may be the…
Washington Post: “The escalating campaign — led by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and other Republicans in Congress and state government — has cast a pall over programs that study not…
“Historically, Republicans have been blamed. So whether you look at it through a policy or a political lens, a shutdown is never beneficial.” — Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), quoted by…
Former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson says in her new memoir said that Mark Meadows burned so many documents in the waning days of the administration that his wife…
“The Biden administration is in talks with Vietnam over an agreement for the largest arms transfer in history between the ex-Cold War adversaries, according to two people familiar with a…
Playbook: “After nine months, McCarthy’s management style as speaker is fairly predictable: He appeases his far-right members as much as possible until the pressure builds and they realize their strategy…
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Playbook: “We continue to hear chatter about a discharge petition or some other parliamentary maneuver that would sidestep the speaker’s control of the floor and set up a bipartisan CR…
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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