In yet another sign of how remarkable this election is: North Carolina’s board of elections sent out a reminder that it is a felony to cast two ballots, a day after President Trump encouraged his supporters to vote by mail and in person.


In yet another sign of how remarkable this election is: North Carolina’s board of elections sent out a reminder that it is a felony to cast two ballots, a day after President Trump encouraged his supporters to vote by mail and in person.
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Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), who enthusiastically backs President Trump’s mass deportation agenda, told NOTUS he’s “going to bat for” one immigrant that he knows who was arrested because he deemed…
The judge currently handling Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s (R) divorce case has decided to shield the records in the case from public disclosure, KUTX reports. Save to Favorites
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) “appeared to send a pointed message to President Donald Trump: If the Department of Justice does not release more information on disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein,…
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered the State Department to “stop commenting on the fairness, integrity and legitimacy of foreign elections, a major shift away from a decadeslong practice of…
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A White House official tried to wave away the Jeffrey Epstein controversy, telling Politico this morning that “no one outside the Beltway is talking about it anymore.” But Brian Stelter…
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Congress is barreling toward a September 30 deadline to fund the government, and this week is shaping up to be a critical moment in the appropriations battle. While all twelve…
“As smoke and debris swirled over the Syrian presidential palace, the chatter in the West Wing grew louder: Benjamin Netanyahu is out of control,” Axios reports. Said one White House…
President Trump went after Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), attacking the former lead House impeachment manager as a “thief” and sharing an apparent tax document to make his case that Schiff…
Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) warned Russian president Vladimir Putin on Fox News that President Trump is about to put a “whoopin’ on your ass.” Said Graham: “The game has changed…
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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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