A new Emerson College survey of the Republican primary election for South Dakota governor finds Rep. Dusty Johnson (R) leading the race with 28% support, followed by Toby Doeden at 18%, incumbent Gov. Larry Rhoden at 17%, and State Rep. Jon Hansen at 14%, while 23% are undecided.
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President Trump laced into Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) as the worst Republican in Congress ever, as he gears up for a trip to Kentucky, the New York Post reports. Said…
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“House GOP leaders discussed trying to attach military aid to a party-line policy package during a closed-door meeting Tuesday afternoon,” Politico reports. “Speaker Mike Johnson and his team are weighing…
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“Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei ‘is safe,’ according to the son of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, as questions swirl over his public absence and rumors he was wounded during…
Matthew Yglesias: “They say that defeat is an orphan while victory has a thousand fathers.” “So even though the invasion of Iraq was extremely popular in 2003, you rarely meet…
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Jonas Murphy quietly pleaded guilty just before Christmas to felony interstate transportation of stolen property, according to the previously unreported plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District…
“Vice President JD Vance will soon kick off a domestic fundraising tour, marking a reemergence amid reported frustration among allies over his silence about the Iran war,” Semafor reports. Save…
David Graham: “The Trump administration can’t say why the United States went to war with Iran, and it can’t say what the goal of the war is. Now it can’t…
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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