The Biden campaign has raised $27 million starting from the day of the first presidential debate through Friday evening, CNBC reports.
Bloomberg: Biden seeks to reassure anxious donors.
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Elaine Godfrey: “Although Cheung is more of a back-office guy, you may have caught glimpses of him last spring, escorting the would-be president in and out of Alvin Bragg’s downtown-Manhattan…
National Security Adviser Mike Waltz has created and hosted multiple other sensitive conversations on Signal with cabinet members, including separate threads on how to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine…
New York Times: “On the Chinese side, Communist Party officials and government advisers said in interviews over the past week that they were taken aback by Mr. Trump’s rapid-fire moves…
Paul Krugman: “One odd feature of U.S. politics is that businesspeople, especially small business owners, always seems to believe that they will do better under Republicans, even though history shows…
A new Pew Research survey finds about seven-in-ten adults say they have been following news about the actions and initiatives of President Trump’s administration very (31%) or fairly (40%) closely….
New York Times: “Even nations not yet directly affected can see where things are heading, as Mr. Trump threatens allies’ economies, their defense partnerships and even their sovereignty.” “For now,…
Bloomberg: “For years, there was little reason to look beyond the U.S., where soaring tech giants and relentless economic strength fueled an era of market dominance. But doubts have grown…
“The Trump family is set to launch a Bitcoin mining-focused venture with Hut 8 Corp., the latest expansion of the president’s ties to the cryptocurrency sector,” Bloomberg reports.Save to Favorites
“President Trump is planning to travel to Saudi Arabia in mid-May on his first foreign trip since returning to the White House,” Axios reports. “Trump’s decision to go to Saudi…
“They’re playing to Trump’s strengths, which is as a mob boss.” — Former Trump White House lawyer Ty Cobb, quoted by Politico, on the capitulation of law firms, Ivy League…
“Policy uncertainty and new sweeping tariffs from the Trump administration are combining to create a stagflationary outlook for the U.S. economy in the latest CNBC Rapid Update.” “The Rapid Update,…
“Two special congressional elections on Tuesday in Florida were supposed to have been cakewalks for the Republican Party,” the New York Times reports. “Instead, one contest has turned into the…
“Ahead of President Trump’s plan to impose sweeping tariffs across the globe this week, his administration is weighing a new round of emergency aid to farmers, who are likely to…
“Elon Musk has thrust himself into the center of a state Supreme Court race in Wisconsin. Democrats are trying to use it to their advantage,” CNN reports. “In the final…
“President Donald Trump is set to gamble the success of his second term, the economy and the personal finances of millions of Americans this week on his long-held belief that…
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said he “certainly” believes that there’s enough room on Mount Rushmore for President Trump’s face, The Hill reports. Save to Favorites
Anne Applebaum: “Once widely perceived to be the wealthiest country in Central Europe (‘the happiest barrack in the socialist camp,’ as it was known during the Cold War), and later…
Punchbowl News: “This week will tell us a lot about the state of Donald Trump’s presidency. There’ll be action on tariffs, elections and Trump’s legislative agenda. And an already nervous…
“Far-right leader Marine Le Pen was convicted of embezzlement and barred from running to be France’s next president in a verdict that reshapes the nation’s political landscape,” Bloomberg reports. “Judges…
CNN: “Already, more than 11,000 additional TB patients are estimated to have died in the two months since almost all USAID funding froze on January 24.” “TB infections are also…
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.
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