“What’s frustrating me is I firmly believe that House Republicans are going to lose the majority — and we’re going to lose it because of ourselves.”
— Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX), quoted by The Hill.
Save to Favorites“What’s frustrating me is I firmly believe that House Republicans are going to lose the majority — and we’re going to lose it because of ourselves.”
— Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX), quoted by The Hill.
Save to FavoritesA new Spotlight PA/MassINC poll in Pennsylvania finds Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump among likely voters in a multi-candidate race, 50% to 46%. Save to Favorites
Kamala Harris on Friday night told rallygoers in Wisconsin not to pay too much attention to the polls, The Hill reports. Said Harris: “46 days until the election. And, what…
Jonathan Last: “Up until last night, the GOP in North Carolina could have replaced its gubernatorial candidate. Robinson is going to lose this race. He’s going to lose it so…
“Kamala Harris delivered an impassioned speech about abortion rights on Friday in Georgia, accusing Republicans who support abortion bans of causing unnecessary suffering as she described the far-reaching, painful and…
“The NRCC raised $9.7 million in August, $12.6 million less than the DCCC raised over the same time period,” Punchbowl News reports. “The NRCC has $70.75 million on hand, $16…
“That’s the ‘Roy Cohn School of Management.’ You demonize and demonize and demonize and give credit to nobody else. And that is the antithesis of good leadership. That’s the antithesis…
“Donald Trump is facing calls both from his allies and from within his own campaign to pull his endorsement from scandal-plagued North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson,” NBC News reports….
“Donald Trump spoke by phone this week with a Nebraska state senator as part of a last-minute push to change how the state allocates its electoral votes and block the…
Cook Political Report: “Things already weren’t looking great for North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s chances in the race for governor. Democrats have pummeled him for months over his…
Rick Hasen: “With early voting already underway, one might think that the rules of the game for November’s election are set, and that it will all just come down to…
A new University of Mary Washington poll in Virginia shows Kamala Harris barely ahead of Donald Trump among likely voters in a multi-candidate race, 47% to 46%. Save to Favorites
Teamsters president Sean O’Brien told CNN that the Teamsters’ decision not to endorse in the presidential race “was not an endorsement for the Republican Party.” Save to Favorites
North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) will not be attending Donald Trump’s rally Saturday in Wilmington, North Carolina, NBC News reports. Save to Favorites
Montana U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy’s (R) book appears to contain four plagiarized portions, the Daily Montanan reports. “It is not the first time the details of Sheehy’s life before…
“Speaker Mike Johnson signaled that former President Donald Trump could soften on his calls to shut down the federal government if a measure requiring proof of citizenship to register to…
“There’s a real possibility that Kamala Harris wins the presidency and Democrats lose the Senate in November – in which case she’ll almost surely run into trouble stocking a Cabinet…
Nikki Haley’s Iowa campaign co-chair writes in the Des Moines Register that she endorses Kamala Harris for president. Save to Favorites
Vice President Kamala Harris did the Wired autocomplete interview. Save to Favorites
“Nebraska appears unlikely to adopt a winner-take-all model of awarding Electoral College votes, despite renewed pressure from prominent Republicans, according to a key state senator,” the Omaha World Herald reports….
Kamala Harris retook the lead over Donald Trump in Nate Silver’s forecast model for the first time in more than three weeks, 51% to 49%, but the race is essentially…
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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