“Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) called behind closed doors on Wednesday for his fellow Republicans to stop criticizing him and his budget negotiations on social media,” Axios reports.
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New York Times: “The first battleground state where the polls will close is Georgia, at 7 p.m. Eastern time, followed closely by North Carolina, at 7:30 p.m. Eastern. A majority…
Nate Silver: “At exactly midnight on Tuesday, we ran our simulation model for the final time in this election cycle. Out of 80,000 simulations, Kamala Harris won in 40,012 (50.015%)…
Nate Cohn: “For Democrats, it’s a textbook challenge. In the latest New York Times/Siena College national poll, only 40 percent of voters approved of President Biden’s performance, and just 28…
Wall Street Journal: “Prices on four betting platforms all point to an election victory for Donald Trump. Prices on PredictIt, which in recent days suggested Kamala Harris had the better…
Washington Post: “Harris’s mostly likely path to the presidency is through the Rust Belt as she has posted some of her best polling numbers there. If she is able to…
Washington Post: “Trump’s most likely path to 270 is winning Georgia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, assuming he wins all the other non-swing states he won in 2020. Trump is ahead…
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) criticized Vice President Kamala Harris for disrespecting Americans just moments before calling her “trash,” Axios reports. Said Vance: “I want to ask us not to follow…
“Joe Rogan endorsed former President Trump for president on Monday evening,” Axios reports. “The podcaster’s endorsement of the GOP presidential nominee on the eve of Election Day could be a…
Tucker Carlson said that the increased occurrence of hurricanes in the United States was a consequence of abortion — which he characterized as “human sacrifice,” the New York Times reports….
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) said she believes women will “save the day” in the election and defended telling women to “vote your conscience” regardless of their husbands’ voter preferences,…
“In the wee hours of Monday morning, Elon Musk, the billionaire who has put nearly $120 million behind an effort to get Donald Trump elected, issued a simple warning on…
“Regardless of who wins Tuesday’s election, a key fixture of America’s political landscape for nearly a decade is set to disappear: the Trump rally,” NBC News reports. “The Donald Trump…
“A white nationalist worked for the Trump campaign in an important position in Pennsylvania for five months — until Friday, when the campaign fired him after learning about his views,”…
Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball forecasts Kamala Harris winning the electoral vote over Donald Trump, 276 to 262. “If Harris does win, it might be an indicator that the last days…
“A Philadelphia judge is allowing Elon Musk’s America PAC to continue its million-dollar giveaway to registered swing state voters,” ABC News reports. Save to Favorites
A new Generation Lab poll of college students finds Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump by more than 50 percentage points in the seven swing states, 76% to 24%. Save to…
“Near-complete election results are expected from Georgia, North Carolina and Michigan on Tuesday night, but only partial results from Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Arizona, Harris-Walz campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon told…
“They have an expression, I hate the expression actually, but it’s ours to lose. Does that make sense to you? It’s ours to lose.” — Donald Trump, quoted by The…
“Donald Trump on Monday threatened tariffs as high as 100 percent on Mexico, America’s largest trading partner last year, in yet another escalation of the drastic protectionist promises of his…
Jon Ralston predicts that Kamala Harris will narrowly win Nevada. “I have often predicted against my own preferences; history does not lie. I just have a feeling she will catch…
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.
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