CNN’s Town Hall featuring Sen. Amy Klobucher (D-MN) finished third in total viewers and the key 25-54 demographic in the cable news ratings race Monday night, The Hill reports.
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“Entities behind President Donald Trump’s crypto coin have accumulated close to $100 million in trading fees in less than two weeks, according to estimates from three blockchain analysis firms, a…
“Beijing is readying an opening bid to try to head off greater tariff increases and technology restrictions from the Trump administration—a sign that China is eager to get trade talks…
Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced that American businesses would be barred from contracts with the province and that he’d “be ripping up” a contract with Elon Musk’s Starlink. Save to…
“President Donald Trump signed an executive action he said would direct officials to create a sovereign wealth fund for the US, following through on an idea he floated during the…
Gideon Rachman: “‘Our strategy on tariffs will be to shoot first and ask questions later.’ That was what one of Donald Trump’s key economic policymakers told me late last year.”…
“President Donald Trump on Monday appointed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent as the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a powerful watchdog agency whose operations Bessent immediately halted pending…
“About 200 Marines and soldiers landed at Guantánamo Bay over the weekend to provide security and begin setting up at a new tent city for migrants, as officials comply with…
“Secretary of State Marco Rubio harshly criticized the U.S. Agency for International Development on Monday, saying the agency wastes money and doesn’t reflect U.S. national interests,” the Washington Post reports….
New York Times: “Over most of its history, NASA has risen above partisan bickering, with broad support in Congress from Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals. But the makeup of…
President Trump said the United Kingdom could be spared from his global trade war because Prime Minister Keir Starmer has been “nice.” Said Trump: “We’ve had a couple of meetings,…
“Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) said he would place a ‘blanket hold’ on all of President Trump’s State Department nominees until his administration’s attack on the leading foreign-assistance agency ends, a…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been made acting administrator of USAID, ABC News reports. Bloomberg: “The move to give Rubio authority over USAID further erodes its independence after several…
“President Donald Trump is set to test the limits of his immigration crackdown by invoking a wartime law to deport immigrants alleged to be gang members without court hearings, a…
Fans of the Vancouver Canucks booed the U.S. national anthem before playing the Detroit Red Wings at home. The same scene unfolded as the Toronto Raptors hosted the Los Angeles…
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries issued a key demand Monday as a March 14 government funding deadline approaches, saying President Donald Trump’s recent federal spending freeze “must be choked off”…
Timothy Snyder: “Theirs is a logic of destruction. It is very hard to create a large, legitimate, functioning government. The oligarchs have no plan to govern. They will take what…
“President Claudia Sheinbaum said she had struck a deal to delay Trump administration tariffs, which were set to take effect on Tuesday, for a month after reaching a series of…
“Speaker Mike Johnson already has to worry about a clutch of hard-line conservative ideologues inside the House Republican ranks as he tries to pass the heart of President Donald Trump’s…
Jonathan Chait: “The Democratic Party, at least in theory, is an organization dedicated to winning political power through elected office, though this might seem hard to believe on the evidence…
After four years out of power, there’s little doubt that President Trump and his allies were more prepared for his second term than they were for his first. Here are…
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.
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