A new Roanoke College Poll in Virginia finds Joe Biden and Donald Trump are tied in a head-to-head matchup, 42% to 42%, while Biden holds a two-point lead — 40% to 38% — when other candidates are included.
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People reports when an off-camera female reporter — later identified as a Bloomberg reporter — began to ask if there was anything “incriminating” in the Jeffrey Epstein emails, President Trump…
Dan Pfeiffer: “There is a liberal fantasy that Emperor Trump will one day have his no-clothes moment, when the fact that he is a con man, a fraud, and a…
The Atlantic: “On the morning after he won a second term as president, Donald Trump placed an unexpected call to his top fundraiser, Meredith O’Rourke. The night before, he’d told…
Wall Street Journal: “It is uncharted territory for Greene, a partisan bombthrower and sharp-elbowed colleague who built her name as one of Trump’s loyal defenders after the Jan. 6, 2021,…
“Conspiracy theories never go away, and each revelation feeds that. That’s pretty much it.” — A longtime Republican operative, quoted by the Washington Post, on the ongoing Jeffrey Epstein fallout….
Senate Democrats are proposing legislation to repeal a contentious provision in the government funding bill that allows senators to file for $500,000 in damages if their phone records were seized…
Punchbowl News: “Trump’s shift, which came in the form of a Truth Social post late Sunday night, has also upended the dynamics in the Senate, where the bill was supposed…
A new Siena poll in New York finds Gov. Kathy Hochul’s (D) favorability and job approval ratings are each down five points from September. However, she continues to have a…
A new Strength in Numbers/Verasight poll finds Democrats leading the 2026 U.S. House generic ballot, 47% to 42% for Republicans. In a survey experiment, when respondents are told Republicans currently…
Axios: “Tuesday’s expected House vote to release the files — over Trump’s initial objections — will mark the first time this term that a GOP-led congressional chamber will so openly…
“For nearly 10 months this year, President Donald Trump’s every wish was the command of Republicans in Washington as he oversaw a furious reshaping of the federal government and beyond….
“President Trump denounced calls for the release of the Epstein files as a Democratic hoax. He dispatched aides to warn Republicans that backing it would be seen as a ‘hostile…
Right-wing news outlet One America News fired “The Matt Gaetz Show” producer Vish Burra after he posted a cartoon last week that characterized Jewish people as scheming cockroaches he later…
“Senior fraud investigators at Fannie Mae believed there was no clear evidence to prove that New York Attorney General Letitia James committed mortgage fraud, according to new information disclosed by…
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) set the Houston special congressional election runoff for Jan. 31, by which point he will have kept the Democratic seat vacant for almost 11 months,…
Playbook: “What a debacle this has been for the president. Four months of defensive plays that divided his core supporters, wasted precious political capital and offered an open goal to…
“President Trump says Americans are lucky he’s in office as he sought Monday to refocus his administration on concerns about the rising cost of living that have gripped much of…
“President Trump on Monday promised the government would pay out $2,000 tariff dividend checks starting around mid-2026,” Axios reports. “Putting a timetable on the checks is a significant step forward…
“Former Harvard University President Larry Summers said he would be stepping back from public commitments after receiving criticism over his correspondence with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein,” the Wall Street Journal…
“House Democrats failed Monday to stop several of their members from voting to advance a motion denouncing Rep. Chuy García (D-IL) for effectively ensuring his chief of staff will replace…
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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