Rep. Lauren Boebert’s (R-CO) night inside a Denver theater “was way more handsy than it initially appeared — new video shows her groping her date’s crotch as he aggressively paws at her breast,” TMZ reports.
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New York Times: “Greenland’s vast ice sheets and glaciers are quickly retreating as the Earth warms through accelerating climate change. That melting of ice could allow drilling for oil and…
Disgraced former Rep. George Santos (D-NY) made $400,000 selling personalized videos on Cameo, federal prosecutors said in a court hearing Tuesday, ABC News reports. Save to Favorites
Charlie Sykes: “Trump can flick Marco Rubio aside like dandruff; brush Mike Johnson off like an errant crumb; turn Pam Bondi into Nikki Haley by midnight tonight. His orbit is…
“Steve Bannon isn’t letting the MAGA civil war fade away in 2025,” the Daily Beast reports. “The bombastic conservative podcaster took personal shots at the newly re-elected House Speaker Mike…
Dan Drezner: “There are many reasons to doubt that Trump will be able to effectively play the madman in his second term, however. The most obvious is that Trump’s first-term…
President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday that “all hell will break out in the Middle East” if the hostages being held by Hamas are not released by Inauguration Day, repeating…
Amazon is paying “a whopping $40 million to license the Brett Ratner-directed Melania Trump documentary plus another, previously undisclosed project from the First Lady,” Puck reports. Save to Favorites
“Speaker Mike Johnson strongly encouraged House Republicans Tuesday morning to get involved in the reconciliation discussions early on so they have a say in what ends up in the final…
“Early Monday afternoon, former Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R) received an email from a Georgia GOP official spelling out a trio of punishments for his embrace of Democratic Vice…
“President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday that ‘no new windmills’ would be built in the United States when he takes office, a direct rebuke of the Biden administration, which has…
“Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday afternoon shut down President-elect Donald Trump’s latest comment that he wants Canada to become a U.S. state,” the Washington Post reports. Said Trudeau:…
New York Times: “The scale of overlap between Mr. Trump’s family members and their business interests, and the government he will lead, all showcased on the same day, underscores how…
“President-elect Donald Trump said NATO nations should spend the equivalent of 5% of their economic output on defense, escalating his demands on European allies to more than double the current…
“A cohort of about 20 Republican House members from New York, New Jersey and California was invited to meet with President-elect Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate Saturday ahead of…
“The march through Mar-a-Lago (aka the ‘Winter White House’) continues this week with a dinner for Republican governors on Thursday,” Politico reports. “It comes as Trump prepares to host a…
Garrett Graff: “The media, the federal government generally, and the Justice Department and the FBI specifically, all have spent decades pretending that far-right violence and extremism just ‘happens.’ That there’s…
“North Carolina’s highest court blocked on Tuesday the certification of a November election result for one of its own seats so it can review legal arguments by a trailing candidate…
“The number of individuals with direct access to the president will be more limited when Donald Trump takes office in two weeks, as incoming chief of staff Susie Wiles seeks…
“Federal prosecutors alleged in a recent court filing that New York City Mayor Eric Adams engaged in illegal activity beyond the bribery case laid out in a September indictment,” Politico…
“A New York appellate court on Tuesday declined to halt President-elect Donald Trump’s criminal sentencing, setting back his hopes of shutting down the case before returning to the White House,”…
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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