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“Tesla CEO Elon Musk had a seat at the family table for Thanksgiving dinner at Mar-a-Lago, joining President-elect Donald Trump, Melania Trump and their 18-year-old son Barron, in the latest…
“You have to be open to them — when I say you, the left — has to be open to them not agreeing with us on everything, having some heterodox…
“During the campaign, President-elect Donald Trump swore he had ‘nothing to do with’ a right-wing policy blueprint known as Project 2025 that would overhaul the federal government, even though many…
Playbook: “As grim reality has set in following Donald Trump’s election victory, those staffers toiling away in the West Wing and EEOB have had something else sapping their morale —…
“Saudi Arabia has abandoned its pursuit of an ambitious defense treaty with Washington in return for normalising relations with Israel and is now pushing for a more modest military cooperation…
“President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to install loyalists have left officials fearful that he intends to carry out his threats of retribution but hopeful that rule-of-law norms can hold,” the New…
“Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum is convinced that her country can reach a deal with the US to avoid the 25% tariff threatened by US President-elect Donald Trump, she told reporters…
Russian president Vladimir Putin has a secret daughter who’s living in Paris under a pseudonym, the Times of London reports. Elizaveta Krivonogikh uses the family name of a deceased ally…
Washington Post: “Gov. Greg Abbott and other top officials have spent the past four years positioning themselves as the Biden administration’s greatest antagonists — and heirs to the border enforcement…
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent weeks lobbying Donald Trump to nominate an Agriculture secretary who would be his ally in a war with the sugar, soybean, corn and other farm…
New York Times: “He wants friendly relations with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, may slash U.S. support for Ukraine and has threatened to withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty…
Think tanks and advocacy groups preparing for a second Trump term have reaped hundreds of millions of dollars in donations since 2020, Bloomberg reports. Save to Favorites
“Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News has captured nearly three-quarters of all US cable news audiences in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s election victory, as liberal Americans tune out of the former…
In his victory speech on Nov. 6, President-elect Donald Trump claimed Americans had given him an “unprecedented and powerful mandate,” the Los Angeles Times reports. “But given that Trump’s lead…
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“People who are casually following the recent announcements from President-elect Donald Trump about how he intends to staff the upper ranks of the executive branch could be forgiven for thinking…
“Donald Trump’s second administration risks being rife with potential conflicts of interests given the sprawling business and financial interests of several cabinet picks and allies, warn ethics watchdogs and experts,”…
“Donald Trump’s picks for the incoming administration are being shaped by a combination of different power centers including one-man influences like top Trump adviser Boris Epshteyn and combined groups led…
“China wields new powers as it confronts the prospect of another trade conflict with the US, expanding its retaliatory reach in recent years to include tools capable of wreaking havoc…
New York Times: “To offset gains that Donald Trump made in rural and suburban America in 2024, Kamala Harris needed to do better than Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s strong 2020…
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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