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Save to FavoritesA new set of Morning Consult polls find Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump in all but one of the seven attleground states: Arizona: Harris +1 Georgia: Trump +1 Michigan: Harris…
“An email address belonging to North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson was registered on Ashley Madison, a website designed for married people seeking affairs,” Politico reports. “The discovery of Robinson’s…
“According to The Economist’s poll tracker, Kamala Harris’s nationwide lead over Donald Trump has widened to 4.5 percentage points, from 3.8 points on September 10th, the day of their debate.”…
“Mark Robinson, the controversial and socially conservative Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina, made a series of inflammatory comments on a pornography website’s message board more than a decade ago,…
John Hendrickson: “His midweek stop at a suburban arena some 20 miles west of the Queens hospital where he was born seemed more vibes-based than tactical. Trump told the crowd…
A source familiar with the forthcoming CNN story on North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) told Bryan Anderson the revelations include him saying things in online chats about liking…
“Donald Trump was so bad at picking who to fire during his stint hosting The Apprentice that the producers of the show would retroactively edit the show to make him…
Mother Jones: “In August, after Donald Trump praised three Republican appointees to the Georgia State Election Board by name at a rally in Atlanta, the MAGA-aligned majority on the board…
“When are we going to schedule impeachment or is this just concepts of an impeachment?” — Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), at a House Oversight Committee hearing. Save to Favorites
A campaign adviser tells Business North Carolina that gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson (R) “is expected to go on CNN today to defend himself regarding a pending story the national network…
“The national Republican push to help former President Donald Trump win all five of Nebraska’s Electoral College votes is ramping up again, and this time it might work,” the Nebraska…
“North Carolina Republicans are bracing Thursday morning as word spreads about a damning news story looming regarding Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson,” the Carolina Journal reports. “Sources with direct knowledge have…
“Speaker Mike Johnson told House Republican leadership colleagues that he’s talking to former President Donald Trump about his call to shut down the federal government and what options GOP lawmakers…
A new New York Times/Philadelphia Inquirer/Siena College poll out this morning found that Kamala Harris overwhelmingly impressed voters in her debate with Donald Trump. A majority of voters in every…
“Democrats are hoping to tap into every advantage that they didn’t have last time they had to run against Donald Trump, including that they’re not running in a global pandemic,”…
Donald Trump is running a new ad in Michigan claiming falsely that Kamala Harris wants to ban gas-powered cars and require “electric only.” Save to Favorites
“They didn’t correct her once and they corrected me, everything I said practically… and the audience went absolutely crazy.” — Donald Trump, in an interview with Fox News, about his…
The Guardian: “A false claim circulating on social media that Kamala Harris was involved in an alleged hit-and-run in San Francisco in 2011 is the work of a covert Russian…
Republican members of Congress from Nebraska called on their state to apportion all of its five electoral votes to the popular vote winner of the presidential election in the state,…
The Secret Service is looking into Elon Musk’s post on X that suggested it was strange no one attempted to assassinate President Joe Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris, Bloomberg…
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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