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There’s a Backup Plan, Right?

May 24, 2022 at 10:00 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Gabriel Debenedetti: “As far as Biden’s camp is concerned, there isn’t any ambiguity about 2024 at all. He has said in private that he sees himself as the only thing standing between the country and the Trumpian abyss and has instructed his aides to redouble their planning for a rematch.”

Said an exasperated longtime Biden adviser: “People ask me with some regularity, ‘When is Biden going to come out and say what he’s going to do?’ And I say, ‘Well, he has!’”

“Relatively few people outside the White House totally buy it. With Trumpism reascendant, ambivalence about Biden’s age and political standing is fueling skepticism just as the image of his understudy, Vice-President Kamala Harris, dips even further than his.”

Filed Under: 2024 Campaign

Bonus Quote of the Day

May 24, 2022 at 9:58 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The national Democratic Party has done a terrible job talking about what we’ve accomplished and what we’re fighting to accomplish. Nobody is more aggravated than I am with the national Democratic Party, that we didn’t fight harder to extend those child tax credits for working people in this state.”

— Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO), quoted by Politico.

Filed Under: Democrats

Viktor Orbán Won’t Discuss Russia Oil Embargo

May 24, 2022 at 9:56 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Viktor Orbán has ruled out discussing the EU’s proposed oil embargo of Russia at next week’s summit of leaders, in a fresh blow to the union’s efforts to win backing for its landmark sanctions package,” the Financial Times reports.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs

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Wisconsin Speaker Survives Attempt to Oust Him

May 24, 2022 at 9:54 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: “Wisconsin’s Assembly speaker remains at the center of the fight within the state Republican Party over the false claims of voter fraud successfully deployed by former President Donald Trump to build doubt over his legitimate election loss in 2020.”

“And on Saturday, Vos withstood a second attempt in as many years to call for his removal — a punishment Republican activists want to level for his refusal to rescind the state’s 10 Electoral College votes cast for President Joe Biden.”

40% of GOP delegates backed a resolution to “decertify” the 2020 election.

Filed Under: State House

New Mexico Delivers ‘Inflation Relief’ Checks

May 24, 2022 at 9:50 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“New Mexico is delivering the first in a series of direct payments to the state’s adult residents to offset higher consumer costs amid inflation,” the Albuquerque Journal reports.

“Individual taxpayers who get direct deposit rebates were scheduled to receive $250 and couples who file jointly were set to receive $500 last week.”

A policy which will actually only make inflation worse.

Filed Under: State House

Ted Cruz Stumped for Mo Brooks

May 24, 2022 at 9:48 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) campaigned for Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) on the eve of the Senate Republican primary in Alabama, AL.com reports.

Filed Under: 2022 Campaign Tagged With: AL-Sen

Iran Revolutionary Guard Colonel Shot Dead

May 24, 2022 at 9:46 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

” A senior member of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard was killed outside his home in Tehran on Sunday by unidentified gunmen on a motorbike,” the Los Angeles Times reports.

“Although the Guard gave only scant detail about the attack that occurred in broad daylight in the heart of Iran’s capital, the group blamed the killing on ‘global arrogance,’ typically code for the United States and Israel.”

“That accusation, as well as the style of the brazen killing, raised the possibility of a link with other motorbike slayings previously attributed to Israel in Iran, such as those targeting the country’s nuclear scientists. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.”

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs

Florida Law on Social Media Found Unconstitutional

May 24, 2022 at 9:28 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“A Florida law intended to punish social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter is an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment, a federal appeals court ruled Monday, dealing a major victory to companies who had been accused by GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis of discriminating against conservative thought,” the AP reports.

Filed Under: Technology

Pennsylvania GOP Extends 2020 Election Inquiry

May 24, 2022 at 9:21 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Republicans in the Pennsylvania Legislature are extending their inquiry into the state’s 2020 presidential election inspired by former President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud,” WHYY reports.

“The contract is to last for another six months, through Nov. 18, under an extension signed last week by Senate Majority Leader Kim Ward, the Senate Republicans’ general counsel, and the Senate’s chief clerk.”

Filed Under: Republicans

Arizona GOP Fails to Ban Ballot Drop Boxes

May 24, 2022 at 9:19 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“An impassioned effort by some Arizona Senate Republicans to ban the use of ballot drop boxes failed,” the AP reports.

“About 90% of Arizona voters cast early ballots, either through the mail, at early voting sites or by using drop boxes put in place by county election officials. Those boxes are most important in the week before an election, when there is doubt a mail-in ballot will reach the local election department in time.”

Filed Under: Election Administration

GOP Sides with Mehmet Oz In Ballot Case

May 24, 2022 at 9:09 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The national Republican Party is taking the side of Mehmet Oz (R) in Pennsylvania’s neck-and-neck GOP primary contest for U.S. Senate and opposing a lawsuit that could help David McCormick (R) close the gap in votes, the AP reports.

Filed Under: 2022 Campaign

Trump Is Slowly Losing His Stranglehold on Republicans

May 24, 2022 at 8:58 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Edward Luce: “This is not an obituary of Donald Trump. He still has a plausible shot at becoming the first ex-president to be re-elected since Grover Cleveland in 1892. But politics is about momentum — and the energy behind Trump is dissipating. The bad news for Trump’s detractors is that his ‘MAGA’ base is not fading. The Kraken lives on. It just no longer shows such deference to the man in Mar-a-Lago.”

“Trump’s handicap is that he is obsessed with one issue — that he was cheated by Joe Biden of his rightful election victory in 2020. Most Republican voters share in that belief, which is a litmus test for candidates. Yet the stolen election myth is their politics’ starting point, not its be-all and end-all. By confining himself to rigged elections, Trump is forgetting Maga’s animating spirit, which is hatred of America’s cultural elites.”

“When Trump’s monomania backfires, it leaves him looking weak.”

Filed Under: Trump Legacy

New York City Bids to Hold Democratic Convention

May 24, 2022 at 8:31 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Eight years after New York City’s failed attempt to host the Democratic National Convention, Mayor Eric Adams is giving it another shot,” Politico reports.

“The Democratic mayor is entering a national contest with his counterparts from Chicago, Atlanta and other cities to host the presidential nominating convention in 2024.”

Filed Under: 2024 Campaign, Democrats

Biden Cleans Up His Taiwan Comments

May 24, 2022 at 7:37 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Biden said he would maintain longstanding U.S. policy toward Taiwan, a day after triggering global confusion when he said the U.S. would respond militarily to any effort by China to take the island by force,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

Said Biden: “My policy has not changed at all.”

The New York Times notes this is the third time Biden has suggested that the U.S. would defend Taiwan if China attacked — and in each instance, his remarks prompted a staff scramble to clean it up.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs

Michael Bennet Braces for a Red Wave

May 24, 2022 at 7:32 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“How precarious is Senate Democrats’ majority? Just ask Colorado’s Michael Bennet,” Politico reports.

“The low-key Democratic senator hails from a state that President Joe Biden won by 13 points. His in-state colleague, Sen. John Hickenlooper, won by 9 points in 2020 against a Republican incumbent. Yet Bennet has an ominous warning for any Democrat feeling optimistic about holding the majority and even expanding it in November.”

Said Bennet: “When you’re in the same party as the president, that’s gonna be a tough cycle.”

Filed Under: 2022 Campaign Tagged With: CO-Sen

David McCormick Sues to Allow Undated Ballots

May 24, 2022 at 7:28 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Pennsylvania Senate candidate David McCormick (R) filed suit to try to force the state to count undated absentee and mail-in ballots in the very tight primary between him and Mehmet Oz (R), the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.

Filed Under: 2022 Campaign Tagged With: PA-Sen

Trump’s Candidate Way Behind In Georgia

May 24, 2022 at 7:21 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

If the polls are correct, Donald Trump is set to suffer a humiliating endorsement loss in Georgia’s Republican gubernatorial primary today, Politico reports.

“The Republican base is poised to take a turn delivering Trump a stinging rebuke in a state where, during his presidency, the GOP lost two Senate seats, two House seats and the state’s Electoral College votes for the first time since the mid-1990s.”

Playbook: “For Trump, the risk is not simply that his favored candidate could lose. It’s that a defeat here could further erase the sense of him as an untouchable GOP kingmaker. If Perdue goes down, it’ll be the third time this year that a Trump-endorsed gubernatorial candidate has been defeated in a GOP primary.”

Filed Under: 2022 Campaign Tagged With: GA-Gov

Quote of the Day

May 24, 2022 at 7:18 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“If Trump is alive, Biden is running.”

— A longtime adviser to President Biden, quoted by New York magazine, on the 2024 presidential race.

Filed Under: 2024 Campaign

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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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