“We’re in a bad spot, and that’s the understatement of the century.”
— A House GOP leadership source, quoted by Punchbowl News.
Save to Favorites“We’re in a bad spot, and that’s the understatement of the century.”
— A House GOP leadership source, quoted by Punchbowl News.
Save to Favorites“Elon Musk’s misinformation megaphone has created a ‘huge problem’ for election officials in key battleground states who told CNN they’re struggling to combat the wave of falsehoods coming from the…
Trading in Trump Media shares were halted twice Thursday morning as shares rapidly dropped at the start of another volatile trading session, CNBC reports. The Independent: Trump loses $1.3bn in…
New York Times: “In an election season that is setting records in some states for turnout, campaign spending and existential angst, a new survey of races nationwide offers another chart-topping…
Wall Street Journal: “Across Pennsylvania, local and state officials are warning that efforts by Trump and his supporters to call into question the integrity of the presidential election in the…
MICHIGAN Harris 49%, Trump 45% (UMass Lowell) Harris 47%, Trump 46% (Washington Post) Trump 48%, Harris 47% (Mitchell Research) NORTH CAROLINA Trump 47%, Harris 45% (UMass Lowell) PENNSYLVANIA Harris 48%,…
“Elon Musk and his political action committee are seeking to move the Philadelphia District Attorney’s lawsuit targeting their $1 million swing state voter lottery to federal court,” CNBC reports. Save…
Kathryn Ann Edwards: “Economists mostly shun politics in favor of policy. We prefer to be aloof soothsayers giving voice to data and research rather than our own beliefs. A luminary…
“Whoever wins the White House next week will take office with no shortage of challenges, but at least one huge asset: an economy that is putting its peers to shame,”…
“Before Election Day has even arrived, the ‘Stop the Steal’ movement has reemerged in force, with some of the same activists who tried to overturn former President Donald Trump’s 2020…
The Taliban has banned women from hearing other women’s voices in its latest attempt to impose a hardline version of Islamic law on Afghanistan, the Telegraph reports. Save to Favorites
Donald Trump admitted his campaign advisers told him to cut back on the strange remarks about women — and then boasted that he doesn’t care, the Daily Beast reports. Save…
Charlie Warzel: “Elon Musk didn’t just get a social network—he got a political weapon.” “It’s easy to forget that Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter was so rash and ill-advised that…
A new Gallup poll finds a record-high percentage of people in the U.S. — 21% — want to leave the country, even as people from elsewhere are fighting to get…
Wired: “A number of them have been driven around in the back of a seatless U-Haul van and threatened that their lodging at a local motel wouldn’t be paid for…
Donald Trump’s transition co-chair, Howard Lutnick, told CNN that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would not be in charge of the Department of Health and Human Services if Trump wins —…
Maryland U.S. Senate candidate Larry Hogan (R) touted an endorsement from Donald Trump in a private donor call and suggested it helps him with the former president’s “hard core” supporters,…
Axios: “In an election that both sides see as existential, the moral guardrails for political spending are vanishing. Today’s billionaires are shredding populist taboos, driving news cycles and increasingly shaping…
The Economist endorses Kamala Harris for president. “This newspaper sees that argument as recklessly complacent. America may well breeze through four more years of Mr Trump, as it has the…
New York Times: “These surveys have had marginal, if any, impact on polling averages, which either do not include the partisan polls or give them little weight. Yet some argue…
“Donald Trump said at a rally on Wednesday that he would protect American women ‘whether the women like it or not’ — remarks that he cast as paternal but only…
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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