“Republicans are in full-out panic mode over their plunging support with Hispanic voters after losing a special election in a ruby-red Texas district over the weekend,” Politico reports.

Save to Favorites“Republicans are in full-out panic mode over their plunging support with Hispanic voters after losing a special election in a ruby-red Texas district over the weekend,” Politico reports.

Save to Favorites“House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) could get caught in the undertow of the very blue wave he hopes to ride into power this November as a growing number of…
“Despite more than two weeks of relentless airstrikes, U.S. intelligence assessments say, Iran’s regime likely will remain in place for now, weakened but more hard-line, with the powerful Islamic Revolutionary…
“President Trump is pressuring allies to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz and relieve pressure on the global economy. So far, most of them aren’t biting,” the Wall Street Journal…
President Trump says Cuba is on the brink of collapse and the U.S. may be “taking” the island nation, Politico reports. Said Trump: “I think Cuba sees the end. All…
“President Trump said he had sought to postpone a planned summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, saying he wanted to be in the U.S. as the war continues. Trump had…
“A judge ruled this week that a top Georgia Republican Party official, who has promoted former President Donald Trump’s claims of widespread voter fraud affecting the outcome of the 2020…
Punchbowl News: “The speaker inched ever closer to saying that he’ll try to put a large-scale Iran war funding bill in a reconciliation package. Johnson detailed the outlines for a…
“In a severe blow to the Trump administration’s health agenda, a federal judge in Massachusetts on Monday blocked the government from implementing a series of decisions on vaccines made over…
“Military officials have included options in regular war planning for President Donald Trump to end the conflict in Iran should he decide to do so,” NBC News reports. “As the…
“I knew the Strait would be a weapon. I predicted it a long time ago. I predicted all of this stuff. I predicted Osama bin Laden would knock out the…
President Trump spoke to reporters about the Iran war: TRUMP: I’ve spoken to a certain president, who I like actually, a past president, he said, “I wish I did it.”…
After spending the weekend demanding that key allies help open the Strait of Hormuz, President Trump told reporters today that the U.S. doesn’t need the assistance. Said Trump: “I don’t…
Several U.S. allies — including Germany, Spain and Italy — rebuffed Donald Trump’s call on Monday to send warships to escort shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, drawing criticism from…
Semafor: “The effect of the outside spending on this spring’s primaries, which in some districts involve the first open-seat contests in decades, is huge.” “Super PAC spending has dwarfed the…
As Sam Bankman-Fried, the convicted former crypto mogul, tries to convince Trump to grant him a pardon, some of the biggest crypto supporters in Congress are warning the president to…
“The family of Rev. Jesse Jackson is withdrawing an eyebrow-raising posthumous announcement of an endorsement of Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton for U.S. Senate, saying on Monday that his primary choices…
For months, critics predicted that a war with Iran would split the MAGA movement. The theory was simple: Donald Trump built his political brand railing against endless wars abroad. Launching…
“For weeks on Capitol Hill, there had been quiet murmurs about the health of an ailing veteran House Republican, Rep. Neal Dunn (R-FL), and whether he would be able to…
New York Times: “After all, Epic Fury captures the Trump presidency in its essence. Everything Mr. Trump does, at least as he sees it, is epic — the biggest, the…
“President Donald Trump is increasingly at the mercy of forces he unleashed but can’t control — so he’s taking aim at the umpires,” Politico reports. “Gas prices surging. Unemployment climbing….
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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