“Russian intelligence services threatened to harm the families of Wagner leaders before Yevgeny Prigozhin called off his advance on Moscow,” The Telegraph reports.
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Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) is on the short list to become his next ambassador to the United Nations, Politico reports. “Stefanik has repeatedly attacked the United Nations over accusations that…
Nate Silver notes the actual election map we got on Tuesday was the map that occurred most often in his election forecast simulations. Save to Favorites
“President-elect Donald Trump has tapped his campaign senior adviser Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff,” Politico reports. “Wiles, who amassed outsized influence as Trump’s de facto campaign manager,…
“David McCormick has won the Pennsylvania Senate race, defeating the Democratic incumbent Sen. Bob Casey,” the AP reports. Save to Favorites
“President-elect Trump’s victory was driven by gains among young voters that the campaign targeted through a media blitz in the final months leading up to the general election,” Axios reports….
“Eight years ago, conservative Christians wondered if Donald Trump, who had just been elected president, would truly be their champion. They were weary, and angry, after wandering in the wilderness…
“President-elect Trump plans fast action on a business-friendly agenda of tax cuts, deregulation and expanded energy production,” Axios reports. “Trump plans to load his White House and Cabinet with business-…
“Rudy Giuliani got a tongue-lashing Thursday in federal court after missing a deadline to turn over valuables to two election workers he defamed, including one asset, a vintage Mercedes, that…
Ron Filipkowski collected every campaign promise Donald Trump made — and has them on video. Save to Favorites
“President-elect Donald Trump never revealed the ‘concepts’ of the plan he said he had to replace the Affordable Care Act, the law that he tried unsuccessfully to kill during his…
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said he would not leave his post if asked by President-elect Donald Trump, Bloomberg reports. The reporter followed up and asked if Powell thinks he’s…
“The legal consequences of President-elect Donald Trump’s victory start with the likelihood that the cases against him will sputter out but could also extend to the cases of hundreds of…
“Even before Donald Trump was re-elected, his best-known backer, Elon Musk, had come to him with a request for his presidential transition,” the New York Times reports. “He wanted Mr….
“President Vladimir Putin on Thursday congratulated and lavished praise on Mr. Trump in his first comments on the U.S. election result, a sign that the Kremlin would move quickly to…
“The Federal Reserve approved a quarter-point interest-rate cut Thursday, the latest step to prevent large rate increases of the prior 2½ years from weakening the labor market as inflation eases,”…
Donald Trump told NBC News on Thursday that one of his first priorities upon taking office in January would be to make the border “strong and powerful.” When questioned about his…
“After helping engineer Donald Trump’s improbable and sweeping victory in the presidential race, Susie Wiles, the president-elect’s unassuming co-campaign chief, is seen as the frontrunner to become his White House…
“House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Democrats aren’t conceding anything,” Punchbowl News reports. Said Jeffries: “It has yet to be decided who will control the House of Representatives in the…
Electoral-Vote.com: “The dominant story of the election thus far is the turnout. Donald Trump collected 62 million votes in 2016, grew that to 74 million in 2020, and will check…
Just after the election results came in, David Plouffe took a dig at President Biden: “We dug out of a deep hole but not enough.” He then deleted his X…
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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