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.


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.
New York Times: “He now faces not only the prospect of having to pay $250 million in damages, but he could also lose properties like Trump Tower that are inextricably…
“Donald Trump, in a pitch to blue-collar workers on Wednesday, plans to speak at a Michigan auto parts factory, one day after President Biden joined a picket line for striking…
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Wednesday “declined to call on Sen. Bob Menendez to resign — gifting a bit of breathing room to the indicted New Jersey lawmaker,”…
“With a government shutdown as few as four days away, the Biden administration has started to ration federal disaster aid, delaying the delivery of about $2.8 billion in grants so…
A new University of Mary Washington Poll in Virginia finds Democrats with a narrow lead in the upcoming legislative elections, 40% to 37%. The most important finding: By a 57%…
Jared Kushner, tried to persuade the publisher of the Washington Post to fire its editor over coverage of the Russia investigation, that editor, Marty Baron, writes in a new book,…
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) told his Democratic colleagues that he will wear a suit when speaking or presiding over the chamber, Punchbowl News reports. If not in a suit, Fetterman…
New York Times: “As a measure of how damning the indictment appears, no one — not even a longtime ally recommended by Mr. Menendez’s office — agreed to publicly defend…
Nick Catoggio: “Because despite all the blather about Biden and Trump being the two most known ‘known quantities’ in politics, we actually don’t know how dangerous and destabilizing Trump might…
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R) has referred 521 cases of suspected voter fraud by non-citizens since taking office, but just one was actually charged with voter fraud, the…
“Sometimes this week you may wonder if Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell are even in the same party anymore,” Punchbowl News reports. “McCarthy and McConnell are…
A Mississippi sheriff “tapped into the power of a grand jury at least eight times over a year to spy on his married girlfriend and the school employee with whom…
Political Wire is free because it’s important for more people to engage in politics. But paid members make this work possible — and they also get exclusive analysis, my private…
Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) told The Messenger that indicted Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) should resign his seat. Said Murray: “I believe he should step down and focus on his legal…
“Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told members of the House GOP conference Wednesday morning that he will not bring the Senate’s bipartisan continuing resolution to the floor for a vote,” The…
“Kevin McCarthy lacks the votes to pass his latest idea for a short-term spending bill, signaling a shutdown at midnight Saturday is inevitable,” Politico reports. “McCarthy is expected to bring…
“In public, Donald Trump says his conversation with the Georgia secretary of state asking to ‘find’ votes for him was ‘a perfect call,’” Rolling Stone reports. “But in private, the…
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“More than half of Republicans see former President Donald Trump as a person of faith, putting him ahead of more vocally religious figures like his former vice president, Mike Pence,”…
Tom Nichols: “The current GOP is not so much conservative as it is reactionary: Today’s right-wing voters are a loose movement of various groups, but especially of white men, obsessed…
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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