President Trump briefly appeared to acknowledge that his handling of the economy is not polling well, telling NBC News that he doesn’t know why that is the case, Mediaite reports.
Said Trump: “I don’t believe the polls. And some polls, I mean, I could show you polls where I’m polling at 69% popularity and some polls where– I have one at 71…”
Save to FavoritesRobert Pape: “Since February, the United States has surged more than 150 aircraft, two carrier strike groups, over a dozen warships, and tens of thousands of personnel into the region….
USA Today: “With more than 3,100 events planned nationwide to protest President Donald Trump’s actions and policies, organizers expect the No Kings protests to draw millions of Americans into the…
A new Fox News poll finds 64% of Americans are dissatisfied with how things are going in the U.S. Save to Favorites
Politico: “It’s not just Hormuz. There’s a second strait in the Middle East vital to global energy markets that Iran is threatening to close if President Donald Trump fails to…
Financial Times: “Iran is working to establish a system of approved passage for ships through the Strait of Hormuz, a tightening of control over the crucial waterway that Tehran suggests…
Energy Common Sense: “Ethylene, methanol, and petrochemical feedstocks, the inputs that underpin manufacturing, agriculture, and industrial systems, are tightening. More than half of global refining capacity has been impacted, along…
A special panel of the House Ethics Committee has found that Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) was guilty of more than two dozen ethics violations, Punchbowl News reports. The full Ethics…
Forbes says Donald Trump is now worth $6.5 billion, which is roughly $1.4 billion more than he was worth last year. Save to Favorites
Reuters: “The United States can only determine with certainty that it has destroyed about a third of Iran’s vast missile arsenal as the U.S. and Israeli war on the country…
“Nearly one month after the U.S. began strikes on Iran, President Donald Trump is sending thousands of troops to the Middle East to potentially fight in a war he said…
Senate Republicans blinked. In a rare overnight session, the chamber voted to reopen most of the Department of Homeland Security — but carved out immigration enforcement, leaving ICE and Border…
“The Republican-led effort to put Utah’s redistricting law back on the ballot fell below the required threshold in one state Senate district on Wednesday after a signature removal campaign by…
A new Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll finds 13% of Americans who cast ballots for Donald Trump in 2024 say they regret how they voted in the last election. Among Kamala…
Scott Brown (R) told Semafor “he’s not dropping his Senate campaign in New Hampshire, despite the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Senate Leadership Fund, and President Donald Trump endorsing his opponent,…
Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO), the chairman of the House Committee on Transportation, is pulling his plans to seek re-election for his Missouri seat, joining dozens of other lawmakers who are…
Wall Street Journal: “Today was supposed to be the last day of President Trump’s pause on planned U.S. military strikes on Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure. On Thursday, Trump…
Bloomberg: “The fissures are still relatively isolated, at least publicly, but include some critical GOP figures on the Hill, suggesting there’s growing unease about the length of the war, Donald…
“The U.S. and Israel are pounding Iran’s missile-launching sites, hitting some over and over across almost a month of war. But Tehran’s missiles keep flying,” the Wall Street Journal reports….
Punchbowl News: “Who won the Senate standoff? No one, in truth. Nothing really changed. Both sides wanted to have this fight, so it happened. It was another example of how…
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.