Russell Berman: “Pollsters told me they weren’t surprised by the conviction’s muted impact, largely because the public’s views of Biden and Trump are already so ingrained.”
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Politico: “It was one of many instances over his final weeks in office — a period Biden and his staff hoped to use to burnish his political legacy — that…
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Peter Baker: “More than 30 miles of anti-scale fencing are being erected all over the nation’s capital. Concrete barriers are being placed at key junctures. Certain roads have already been…
“President Biden warned in his farewell address to the nation last week that an oligarchy is taking shape in America. In Washington, the oligarchs are already here, buying big houses,”…
“The president-elect’s immigration advisers have warned Republicans that it will take time and money from Congress to carry out the mass deportation effort he has promised to execute immediately,” the…
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“The incoming Trump administration and the Biden administration went back and forth on Saturday over the status of TikTok and whether a ban of the service would take place, after…
President-elect Donald Trump has told advisers he wants to travel to China after he takes office, seeking to deepen a relationship with Xi Jinping strained by the president-elect’s threat to…
ProPublica: “In the past few years, school vouchers have become universal in a dozen states… and, with Donald Trump returning to the White House, they will likely have federal support.”…
“The incoming Trump administration wants regime change in Venezuela, where dictator Nicolás Maduro stole his election, jailed a rival and this month even threatened to invade the U.S. territory of…
David Leonhardt: “It has become a cliché to lament that the U.S. government no longer does big, audacious things. But banning TikTok — a social media platform that roughly half…
Wall Street Journal: “Elon Musk, a close ally to President-elect Donald Trump, has taken broadsides from MAGA movement leader Steve Bannon on two continents in recent days. Musk feuded with…
“President-elect Trump launched his own cryptocurrency overnight and swiftly appeared to make more than $25 billion on paper for himself and his companies,” Axios reports. “The stunning launch of $TRUMP…
New York Times: “Canadian officials are preparing a three-stage plan of retaliatory tariffs and other trade restrictions against the United States … Initial tariffs would mostly affect consumer goods worth…
“President Joe Biden is expected to make further use of his clemency power before leaving office next week, potentially extending pre-emptive pardons to individuals who could be targeted for retribution…
Steve Bannon told the New Republic that a little-discussed provision of the Laken Riley Act would allow state AGs to file lawsuits to block H-1B visas, which Bannon hopes will…
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“President-elect Donald Trump has said he plans to embark next week on one of the most sweeping deregulatory drives in U.S. history, slashing at rules emanating from every channel of…
“GOP tax writers are gathering support for creative ways to make the price tag $0 for extending Trump’s 2017 tax cuts,” Axios reports. “The procedural and budgetary gambit will free…
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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