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Trump ‘Keeps Shitting All Over’ End of Roe v. Wade

June 26, 2022 at 1:26 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Donald Trump “is anxious about what the end of Roe, and the flood of extreme Republican state-level anti-abortion laws it will unleash, will mean for the GOP’s electoral prospects — and for his own,” Rolling Stone reports.

Said one source who spoke to Trump: “He keeps shitting all over his greatest accomplishment. When you speak to him, it’s the response of someone fearing the backlash and fearing the politics of what happens when conservatives actually get what they want.”

The source added: “I do not think he’s enjoying the moment as much as many of his supporters are, to be honest with you.”

Filed Under: Abortion

Now Antiabortion Lawmakers Want More

June 26, 2022 at 1:23 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“On the heels of their greatest victory, antiabortion activists are eager to capitalize on their momentum by enshrining constitutional abortion bans, pushing Congress to pass a national prohibition, blocking abortion pills, and limiting people’s ability to get abortions across state lines,” the Washington Post reports.

Filed Under: Abortion

GOP Candidate Says Roe Verdict ‘Victory for White Life’

June 26, 2022 at 1:17 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) told a crowd at a rally held alongside former president Donald Trump that the supreme court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade was a “victory for white life,” The Guardian reports.

Miller is running for reelection in the state’s newly redrawn 15th Congressional District against Rep. Rodney Davis (R-IL) with Donald Trump’s endorsement.

Filed Under: Abortion

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GOP Candidate Punches Opponent in the Face

June 26, 2022 at 1:11 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“A Providence police officer who was running for state office as a Republican dropped out of the race on Saturday amid a criminal investigation for allegedly punching his Democratic opponent in the face during an abortion protest,” the Washington Post reports.

Said Jennifer O’Rourke (D) on Twitter: “Last night, after speaking at our Roe rally, my Republican opponent — a police officer — violently attacked me. This is what it is to be a Black woman running for office. I won’t give up.”

Filed Under: 2022 Campaign

Republicans Brace for Impact of Reversing Roe

June 25, 2022 at 3:24 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Republicans finally got the Roe v. Wade decision they wanted, and in public, they are delighted,” Politico reports.

“More quietly, however, according to interviews with more than a dozen Republican strategists and party officials, they just didn’t want it to come right now — not during a midterm election campaign in which nearly everything had been going right for the GOP.”

Filed Under: 2022 Campaign, Abortion

GOP Senator Said 13-Year Old Could Consent to Sex

June 25, 2022 at 3:18 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

In a 2010 deposition in the case, given a week after he was elected to his first term in the U.S. House, Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) testified that he believed a 13-year-old girl could consent to sex, the AP reports.

Filed Under: Senate

How the Abortion Decision Helps Donald Trump

June 25, 2022 at 3:12 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

John Ellis: “First: it changes the subject, something the Trump camp has been quite desperate to do since the Committee hearings began.”

“Second, it reminds the Republican Party’s most important constituency — white evangelical Christians — just who made yesterday’s ruling possible. That would be, first and foremost, Donald Trump.”

“Third, it requires all the other GOP candidates for the 2024 presidential nomination to acknowledge (and feign admiration for) Trump’s role in Roe’s reversal. This reinforces the perception that the Republican ‘field’ of candidates is actually two fields: Trump and everybody else.”

“Fourth, and this is always a consideration in Trump world, it enables an aggressive direct mail fund-raising campaign, asking small donors to express their appreciation for Trump’s role in the reversal of Roe by sending money to the coffers of what might be called the Trump Bank for Future Endeavors. Such an appeal will raise a lot of money.”

Filed Under: Abortion

Prince Charles Took Cash in a Suitcase from Sheikh

June 25, 2022 at 3:11 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The Prince of Wales accepted a suitcase containing €1 million in cash from a controversial Qatari politician, the Sunday Times reports.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs

Top Banks Will Pay for Employees to Get Abortions

June 25, 2022 at 3:07 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Deutsche Bank AG and American Express will pay for employees to travel to another state if needed to obtain a legal abortion, Bloomberg reports.

Stephen Carter: “With Roe v. Wade no longer the law of the land, women seeking abortions will soon start traveling. Could a state punish an employer for covering their costs? The issue is likely to arise: A number of major corporations have come forward with offers to pay the expenses of employees who leave the state to end their pregnancies, and some state legislators are threatening to punish them.”

Filed Under: Abortion

‘Mitt Romney Republican’ Is a Potent GOP Primary Attack

June 25, 2022 at 1:27 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Mitt Romney isn’t up for reelection this year. But Trump-aligned Republicans hostile toward the Utah senator have made his name a recurring theme in this year’s primaries, using him as a foil and derisively branding their rivals ‘Mitt Romney Republicans,’” the AP reports.

“Republicans have used the concept to frame their primary opponents as enemies of the Trump-era GOP in southeast Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania.”

Filed Under: Republicans

The End of Roe Is Just the Beginning

June 25, 2022 at 12:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Ross Douthat: “By any reasonable political science theory, any normal supposition about how power works in our republic, this day should not have come.”

“The pro-life movement has spent half a century trying to overturn a Supreme Court ruling that was presumed to reflect the enlightened consensus of the modern age. It has worked against the public’s status quo bias, which made Roe v. Wade itself popular, even if the country remained conflicted about the underlying issue. Against the near-universal consensus of the media, academic and expert class. Against the desires of politicians who were nominally supportive of its cause, the preferences of substantial portions of American conservatism’s donor class.”

“Across all those years the pro-life cause also swam against the sociological and religious currents of American life, which have favored social liberalism and secularization.”

Filed Under: Abortion

Quote of the Day

June 25, 2022 at 11:58 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“I’m not saying it’s changing the political landscape wholesale but we’re going to see a lot of close races in November, and this is going to keep and put Democrats in office in some of those close races. Republicans are going to be on their heels defending this, because they’ve outlawed abortion even in the most extreme cases of rape and incest.”

— John Anzalone, a pollster for President Biden, quoted by the Washington Post.

Filed Under: Abortion

Biden Signs Landmark Gun Legislation

June 25, 2022 at 11:42 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Joe Biden signed into law the most sweeping legislation aimed at preventing gun violence in 30 years at the White House on Saturday shortly before departing for Europe for a series of meetings with world leaders,” NBC News reports.

Filed Under: Gun Control

Politics Is Strange Sometimes

June 25, 2022 at 10:25 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Mark Halperin: “Given their histories and orientations, there is an irony in the fact that Joe Biden (who was pro-life and now says he is pro-choice) and Donald Trump (who was pro-choice and now says he is pro-life) are truly in their hearts apparently out of step with their respective parties. Trump is attitudinally more pro-choice than Biden is, actually.”

Filed Under: Abortion

A Bombshell That Could Define Biden’s Presidency

June 25, 2022 at 10:17 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Washington Post: “It’s not clear whether Roe’s demise will give Biden a path to find his voice and re-energize his presidency, or will simply exacerbate the social divisions that have created such obstacles to governing.”

Filed Under: Abortion, White House

Justices Inflame a Divided Country

June 25, 2022 at 10:13 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Dan Balz: “By overturning Roe v. Wade and ending the guaranteed right to abortion nationwide, the court’s newly entrenched conservative bloc has set the country on a course toward legal and political warfare destined to last for years, a conflict perhaps even more intense than the one that has raged since Roe was decided in 1973.”

“The implications of the court’s ruling are difficult to overstate and nearly impossible to predict. The immediate impact will be felt by millions of women in states that will now outlaw abortions in all or virtually all circumstances. But it could be felt as well by others who now fear their rights are in danger, particularly those in the LGBTQ community.”

Filed Under: Judiciary

How John Roberts Lost Control of the Court

June 25, 2022 at 9:59 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Politico: “After nearly seven months of deliberations, Roberts found precisely zero takers among his fellow justices for his incrementalist approach that would have avoided overruling Roe for now, but allowed Mississippi to impose a near ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.”

“The court’s conservatives dismissed Roberts’ stance as unprincipled and impractical, while the liberal justices called it ‘wrong’ without detailing their objections.”

“Ultimately, Roberts’ opinion amounted to an afterthought that had no impact on the outcome of the case.”

Filed Under: Judiciary

The Truth About Trump’s Endorsements

June 25, 2022 at 8:00 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Jonathan Bernstein: “Trump is taking credit for endorsing the winner in the Alabama Senate primary run-off. This is actually more about reporters than it is about the Republican Party. Trump had originally endorsed one candidate, then pulled his support and switched to the polling leader. He did a similar thing in the Pennsylvania governor’s primary, with a very late endorsement to a big polling leader. Hey, there’s nothing wrong with endorsing sure winners. It’s part of politics.”

“But any pundit or journalist who buys the idea that the subsequent results say anything at all about Trump’s strength within the party or among Republican voters is failing a very easy test. The truth is that Trump’s endorsements haven’t been very effective in moving voters during this election cycle (or, for that matter, previous ones). That doesn’t mean Republican voters don’t like him. They do. But voters usually like all of their party’s politicians.”

Filed Under: 2022 Campaign, Trump Legacy

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goddard-bw-snapshotTaegan 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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