“He is like one of those big balloons when you stick a pin in and it swirls around the room until it comes down to nothing.”
— Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), talking about Donald Trump on CNN.
Save to Favorites“He is like one of those big balloons when you stick a pin in and it swirls around the room until it comes down to nothing.”
— Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), talking about Donald Trump on CNN.
Save to FavoritesMinnesota state Rep. Jeff Dotseth (R) “was arrested in 2008 after his then-wife called police to report he’d assaulted her, one episode in what she and her son would describe…
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) accused a leading Muslim civil rights advocate of supporting extremism during a Senate hearing on hate incidents in the U.S., Reuters reports. Asked Kennedy: “You support…
“Russia is now throwing all of its disinformation resources behind operations designed to undermine the Harris-Walz campaign,” Axios reports. “Starting in late August, a well-known Russian influence group, called Storm-1516,…
Kamala Harris spoke with Donald Trump on Tuesday to check in after a second apparent assassination attempt against him, Axios reports. Said Harris: “I told him what I have said…
A judge ruled Trump Media breached an agreement with one of the investors that helped the company go public and must grant the sponsor a larger share of stock, CNBC…
Harry Enten: “It’s kind of hard to believe, but the bottom line is that 4% — 4% in the average of polls — 4% of voters say that they are…
“Donald Trump said that he would revive the state and local tax deduction, a popular tax break for New Yorkers that the former president limited during his time in the…
“A week after President Barack Obama won reelection in November 2012, JD Vance, then a law student at Yale, wrote a scathing rebuke of the Republican Party’s stance on migrants…
“The acting director of the Secret Service told former President Donald Trump that significant additional security arrangements and planning would be needed if he wanted to continue safely playing golf,”…
Tom Nichols: “Two assassination attempts in about two months is indeed horrifying, but it is not unprecedented: In 1975, President Gerald Ford survived two such attempts in fewer than three…
“More than two hours into Republican former President Donald Trump’s World Liberty Financial launch event on X Monday night, the team behind the Trump family’s new crypto project finally unveiled…
“Federal Judge Aileen M. Cannon, the controversial jurist who tossed out the classified documents criminal case against Donald Trump in July, failed to disclose her attendance at a May 2023…
New York Times: “During her 2020 campaign and early in her vice presidency, some of Ms. Harris’s biggest missteps came during unscripted encounters with journalists. To avoid taking chances, she…
“The presidential candidates and their allies plan to spend more than half a billion dollars on television and radio advertising over the final seven weeks of the campaign,” the New…
A new Emerson College poll in Missouri finds 58% of voters plan to vote in favor of the ballot measure to amend the Missouri Constitution to provide the right to…
Peter Baker reminds us: “Trump has long favored the language of violence in his political discourse, encouraging supporters to beat up hecklers, threatening to shoot looters and undocumented migrants, mocking…
“Donald Trump is poised to capitalize on the second attempt on his life in recent months, using the shocking development to try to snatch back the political momentum that Vice…
“A key election official in Arizona’s Maricopa County plans to ask the state’s highest court as early as Tuesday to prohibit nearly 100,000 longtime residents from voting in state and…
“Pagers carried by thousands of Hezbollah operatives exploded at about the same time Tuesday afternoon, leaving more than 2,700 injured and eight dead in an unprecedented event that struck across…
“Palm Beach, one of the richest American enclaves, is seeking government assistance after the cost to protect its most famous resident — former President Donald Trump — soared to $93,000…
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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