A RNC video showing rioters setting a city street on fire in “Biden’s America” is actually a photo from Barcelona, Spain, BuzzFeed News reports.
The video was intended to be a warning of the dire consequences if Biden is elected president.
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“Roy Cooper is expected to announce his campaign for the North Carolina Senate as soon as Monday,” Politico reports. “The popular, former two-term governor’s entrance into the Senate race —…
“When Justice Department officials reviewed what Attorney General Pam Bondi called a ‘truckload’ of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein earlier this year, they discovered that Donald Trump’s name appeared multiple…
“I’ve watched this party pour $110 million into Jaime Harrison’s campaign against Lindsey Graham. That was a fool’s errand. How many Michigan state Senate seats could we have picked up…
“The Pentagon’s independent watchdog has received evidence that messages from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Signal account previewing a U.S. bombing campaign in Yemen derived from a classified email labeled ‘SECRET/NOFORN,’”…
Rachel Bade: “After months of the base complaining Democratic leadership couldn’t land a blow on Donald Trump, House Democrats have seized on the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.” Save to Favorites
“The U.S. is reportedly closing in on a trade agreement that would impose 15% tariffs on goods from the European Union,” Axios reports. “The framework — details of which were…
“A federal judge in Florida on Wednesday denied a request from the Trump administration to release grand jury transcripts from an investigation into the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, stymying efforts…
Most modern presidents have kept the Justice Department at arm’s length from the White House. But the erosion of that norm is now central to a growing controversy, after the…
“It seems as though the Trump administration is willing to declassify anything and everything except the Epstein files.” — Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), quoted by the New York Times, on…
New York Times: “Displaying a willingness to weaponize the federal government in ways that were as novel as they were audacious, he took on a wide variety of individuals and…
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) took questions from reporters: REPORTER: You had to pull the rule because of fear of Epstein votes… JOHNSON: No. We don’t have any fear. There is…
“Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and his staff are pushing Democratic senators to create TikTok accounts for official purposes, despite a federal law banning the social media app on government devices,”…
Tara Palmeri, who investigated Jeffrey Epstein for years, has a great description of what I think attracted Donald Trump to him. “The whole operation was designed to normalize the depravity….
“Democrats are hoping to jam Republicans with Jeffrey Epstein-related amendments ahead of a Thursday Appropriations subpanel markup,” Politico reports. Save to Favorites
“Speaker Mike Johnson is on the defensive as he prepares to let the House leave early for August recess rather than allow his conference be hammered further by agitation on…
The State Department has opened an investigation into Harvard University’s eligibility as a participant in the government’s exchange visitor program, further ratcheting up pressure on the Ivy League institution, the…
“There’s a new warning tucked into the tender offer for Elon Musk’s SpaceX: The billionaire may not be done with politics just yet,” Bloomberg reports. “The company added the language…
“Democrats are facing a redistricting problem as Republicans in Texas — and potentially other states — are redrawing their maps to create more Republican-leaning seats. But state Democrats say that…
Eli McKown-Dawson: “For one more presidential cycle — this won’t be true following redistricting in 2032 — Democrats can still technically win the Electoral College through the ‘Blue Wall’ states…
Adam Nagourney: “The Democratic Party had just lost another presidential election. It was hemorrhaging support among blue-collar voters and was seen as out of touch on cultural issues. It was…
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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