A new Marist poll in Ohio finds Donald Trump leading Joe Biden in the presidential race, 48% to 41%.
In the U.S. Senate race, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D) tops challenger Bernie Moreno (R) 50% to 45%.
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“The price of gas in the United States reached an average of $3.41 per gallon on Saturday, a day after crude oil prices soared to levels not seen since 2023…
Tom Steyer’s campaign petitioned the California secretary of state to enforce a dormant residency requirement in the governor’s race, arguing rival Eric Swalwell “appears to live in California on paper…
President Trump said Iran “will be hit very hard” today, with areas of the country under consideration for “complete destruction and certain death,” CNN reports. Said Trump: “Under serious consideration…
“A gun rights activist and hard-right YouTuber became the default Republican nominee in a West Texas congressional race late Thursday after a sex scandal forced the incumbent, Representative Tony Gonzales,…
Wall Street Journal: “Few people lobbied Trump to undertake the riskiest gambit of his presidency as effectively as the hawkish and persistent Graham, who over a decade has held a…
Wall Street Journal: “Iran had for two years responded to foreign attacks with limited counterpunches directed at its attacker. Instead, under the new strategy, Tehran would escalate conflict across the…
“In less than a week after launching a massive military assault on Iran, President Trump has gone from telling its people the future is ‘yours to take’ to insisting he…
“That Jeffrey Epstein preyed on adolescent girls while socializing with the uber rich is amply confirmed by three-million or so pages of investigative documents released by the Justice Department since…
Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-CA) “filed for reelection as an independent Friday, after California’s Democratic gerrymander blew up his existing boundaries, leaving him to run as a longshot in a blue-leaning…
Wall Street Journal: “The conflict with Iran throttled one of the key shipping routes for global energy and brought the world to the brink of a shock. Costs of diesel,…
“President Donald Trump has privately expressed serious interest in deploying U.S. troops on the ground inside of Iran,” NBC News reports. “Trump has discussed the idea of deploying ground troops…
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) is expected to drop his bid for reelection just ahead of California’s congressional filing deadline on Friday, Axios reports. Politico: “An ally of President Donald Trump,…
“Dr. Vinay Prasad, a polarizing figure at the Food and Drug Administration who oversaw vaccines, is leaving the agency at the end of April,” the New York Times reports. Save…
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“The Florida Bar said Friday that it is not investigating Lindsey Halligan, the former interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, contradicting a letter it sent last month…
Hussein Ibish: “For the first time, the country’s government is directly confronting a weakened Hezbollah.” Save to Favorites
Andrew Sullivan: “For me and many others, the Iraq War of 2003 was a life-altering lesson in humility. In the wake of 9/11, with trauma warping my frontal cortex, I…
Playbook: “It’s a politically perilous time for Trump, who must hold together a fracturing coalition and convince voters to show up for Republicans come November — or else the party…
Punchbowl News: “This wasn’t the jobs report that the White House or Wall Street was hoping for, especially as the war in Iran intensifies. Pre-release estimates were for a 50,000…
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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