Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) claimed the Department of Justice and FBI “were planning to assassinate President Trump and gave the green light.”
Trump piled on in a fundraising email: “They were authorized to shoot me!”
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) claimed the Department of Justice and FBI “were planning to assassinate President Trump and gave the green light.”
Trump piled on in a fundraising email: “They were authorized to shoot me!”
A new Pew Research poll finds 25% of Americans hold unfavorable views of both Joe Biden and Donald Trump — the highest share of “double haters” at this stage in…
Punchbowl News: “Trump disparaged Milwaukee, the city where he’ll formally accept the GOP presidential nomination next month. He also told a bizarre story involving an imagined relationship with former Speaker…
“Candidates and voters alike are wondering whether they can trust the polls ahead of November’s elections,” Axios reports. “The 2016 and 2020 elections rocked public confidence in polling after many…
Washington Post: “It’s been 15 years since members of the House and Senate allowed their federally mandated cost-of-living adjustment (often referred to as COLA) to take effect. Since then, their…
“When Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016, business leaders flocked to meet with him, hoping to tone down his trade policies and populist rhetoric while encouraging his business-friendly tax…
New York Times: “There will be no opening statements. President Biden and former President Donald Trump will each have two minutes to answer questions — followed by one-minute rebuttals and…
Wall Street Journal: “The ruling Conservative Party—which ran on a slogan to ‘Get Brexit Done’ during the last election in 2019—doesn’t want to dwell on its former flagship policy given…
Air Mail: “The traditional approach of stigmatizing far-right parties by invoking their authoritarian roots is having little effect on generations for whom Auschwitz, Vichy, and D-day are obscure references in…
“Donald Trump on Thursday told Republicans to talk more about abortion. But earlier this week, at a gathering of staunchly anti-abortion Southern Baptists, Trump didn’t mention the word — opting…
“The Supreme Court has been moving at a sluggish pace in issuing decisions this term, entering the second half of June with more than 20 left to go. That is…
“The State Department on Friday designated the largest neo-Nazi group in Sweden and its leaders as terrorists, only the second time it has applied the label to a white supremacist…
Rep. Garret Graves (R-LA) said “he will not run for reelection — ending months of questions about his political future after redistricting scrambled Louisiana’s congressional map,” Politico reports. “The decision…
“Rishi Sunak said he would stay on as a member of Parliament for five years, the typical full-length term of a UK government, even if his Conservative Party is ousted…
“Donald Trump failed to impress everyone in a room full of top CEOs Thursday at the Business Roundtable’s quarterly meeting,” CNBC reports. Said one CEO: “Trump doesn’t know what he’s…
“The Justice Department said Friday that it would not act on the House’s contempt referral of Attorney General Merrick Garland,” CNN reports. “In a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson,…
“No real Republican with any credibility in the party is still blaming him for Jan. 6… I think the Republican Party is in a good place.” — Sen. J.D. Vance…
Jonathan Last: “Mitch McConnell thought that Donald Trump would be beholden to him because McConnell owned the machinery of the Republican party. Trump was glad to use that machinery. And…
Some of you have probably been meaning to become Political Wire members but haven’t gotten around to it yet. So consider this a nudge: The full Political Wire experience includes…
Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers blasted policy ideas floated by Donald Trump as immensely damaging to the economy, Bloomberg reports. Said Summers: “This is a prescription for the mother of…
“The ghostwriter of President Biden’s memoir told federal investigators he deleted many recordings of his conversations with Biden after a special counsel was appointed to investigate the president,” Axios reports….
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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