“Iranian hackers sent unsolicited information they stole from Donald Trump’s presidential campaign to people who were affiliated with Joe Biden’s campaign over the summer,” CNN reports.
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Time: “Two years ago, the FBI raided Donald Trump’s home to retrieve government records he had refused to return, including hundreds containing classified information. The indictment that followed alleged the…
Greg Sargent: “There are 1,000 convoluted theories floating around on social media that purport to explain why Donald Trump won the presidential race. But some Democrats and people on Kamala…
“The Justice Department plans to focus on arresting the “most egregious” Jan. 6 rioters — particularly those who committed felony assaults on law enforcement officers but have not yet been…
Punchbowl News looks at what it will be like to be in Washington for a Trump presidency: Save to Favorites
New York Times: “For months leading up to Mr. Trump’s political comeback — and in the heady days since his victory was confirmed — foreign leaders have rushed, once again,…
“President-elect Donald Trump has not yet submitted a legally required ethics pledge stating that he will avoid conflicts of interest and other ethical concerns while in office, raising concerns that…
New York Times: “With Mr. Trump now headed back to the White House, many potential migrants are rethinking their plans, while border officials are working hard to understand what a…
“With Republicans set to regain control of the White House and the Senate, the spotlight has turned to the Supreme Court and whether the two oldest justices may step down,…
“As Donald Trump watched election results roll in from a party at his Mar-a-Lago compound, Elon Musk sat arm’s length away, basking in the impending victory he had helped secure,”…
ABC News: “Trump won, in part, by building an unprecedented multiracial coalition within the Republican Party. White working-class men, as they did in 2016, fueled his success but Trump also…
“Voters in three states — Arizona, Missouri, and Nevada — chose on Tuesday to advance protections for abortion rights in their state constitutions. Donald Trump, meanwhile, is likely to win…
“Donald Trump pledged in one of his final campaign speeches to work with Democratic mayors and governors if reelected. But just hours after the former president was projected to win…
Wall Street Journal: “It is an online universe of YouTubers, podcasters, live-streamers, online pranksters and more. They vary wildly in their tone, substance and obsessions. Some are jokey; some are…
“The signs of a political shift in the reliably blue counties that line Texas’s southern border with Mexico had been coming,” the Washington Post reports. “Local GOP offices were emerging…
Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) defeated challenger Sam Brown, winning a second term to represent Nevada in the U.S. Senate, the Nevada Independent reports. Save to Favorites
New York Times: “This week, Democrats became a party effectively without a leader. Its new standard-bearer, Vice President Kamala Harris, is on track to have lost the Electoral College and…
Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) said Friday that local police in his Florida district notified him about a “potential plot” against his life and told him that an armed man had…
Several Democratic operatives and insiders told Rolling Stone they tried to convince the Kamala Harris campaign and her allies that palling around with the Cheneys was a bad idea with…
Podcast host Jon Favreau said that President Biden’s internal polls showed Donald Trump defeating him in an Electoral College landslide before he exited the race in July, Mediaite reports. Said…
“As President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team plans his energy and environment agenda, it is relying on two seasoned former cabinet leaders and fossil fuel lobbyists to dramatically reshape the agencies…
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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