“Paul Ryan, you’re a piece of garbage… Don’t go spouting your mouth off and saying that you’re a conservative. You’re spitting in the face of the leader of our party.”
— Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX), on CNN.
Save to Favorites“Paul Ryan, you’re a piece of garbage… Don’t go spouting your mouth off and saying that you’re a conservative. You’re spitting in the face of the leader of our party.”
— Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX), on CNN.
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“Kamala Harris is taking a brief break from wooing swing-state voters to attend high-dollar fundraisers in California this weekend to pad her financial advantage over Republican rival Donald Trump,” Bloomberg…
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The Israel Defense Forces said the leader of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah was dead, after it hit what it called Hezbollah’s “central headquarters” in Beirut’s southern suburbs, the Washington…
“Donald Trump has promised immediate action on illegal immigration and oil drilling, but behind the scenes, his campaign has begun work on his most personal priority: tearing up the Justice…
“On her first trip to the southern border as the Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris delivered one of her party’s toughest speeches on immigration and border policy in…
“Donald Trump crisscrossed the battleground state of Michigan on Friday, casting himself as an economic protectionist to blue-collar voters while attacking Vice President Kamala Harris over immigration on the same…
“Investigators on Friday seized the phones of Mayor Eric Adams’s chief adviser, Ingrid Lewis-Martin, searched her Brooklyn home and served her with a grand jury subpoena,” the New York Times…
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“J.D. Vance will speak at an event on Saturday hosted by the self-styled prophet and political extremist Lance Wallnau, who has claimed Kamala Harris practices witchcraft and has written that…
“The special counsel, Jack Smith, has asked a federal judge to make public a substantial amount of the evidence that he and his deputies have collected during nearly two years…
CBS News said that the vice presidential candidates’ microphones will not be muted, but later clarified in a press release that it “reserves the right to turn off candidate microphones.”…
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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