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Clinton Says She’s Listening and Learning

May 27, 2015 at 6:28 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 6 Comments

Hillary Clinton “lacks some of the extraordinary gifts for connection and empathy that her husband possesses, and the round-table events that have characterized her early campaign can feel stage-managed. But even these settings are producing revealing moments, as Mrs. Clinton finds herself far from the world of international diplomacy and scrambling to re-educate herself about the nation she hopes to lead,” the New York Times reports.

“A lot has changed since Mrs. Clinton left domestic politics to become the secretary of state: Student debt has ballooned, access to credit has tightened, and the cause of income inequality has taken on a forceful momentum.”

“Ever an eager student, she has immersed herself in dense briefing papers and academic tomes and consulted more than 200 experts as she thought about her economic policy. But now, as the campaign faces pressure to reveal specific policy proposals, Mrs. Clinton has 35 million more advisers — also known as the Democratic primary electorate.”

Conservative Group Backs Grayson in New Ad

May 26, 2015 at 4:44 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 21 Comments

“In a rare encroachment into a Democratic primary, the conservative Club for Growth is airing a television ad that attacks Florida Senate candidate Patrick Murphy for supporting the Export-Import Bank and praises potential rival Alan Grayson for opposing the credit agency for American businesses,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“The ad is part of a $1 million advertising campaign by the Club for Growth, a free-market group that casts Ex-Im spending as corporate welfare and is best known for attacking centrist Republicans.”

Walker Says He Might Skip Florida Primary

May 26, 2015 at 4:36 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 24 Comments

Gov. Scott Walker suggested he might avoid an expensive primary fight in Florida while Sen. Marco Rubio and former Gov. Jeb Bush battle it out for favorite son, the New York Times reports.

Said Walker: “The neat thing about being around the country is that if we choose to get in, I don’t think there’s a state out there where we couldn’t play in, other than maybe Florida, where Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio are at least in some of the polls essentially tied. They’re going to eat up a lot of the financial advantage that Governor Bush is going to have.”


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Clinton Company Shows Loophole in Disclosure

May 26, 2015 at 3:22 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 19 Comments

“The newly released financial files on Bill and Hillary Clinton’s growing fortune omit a company with no apparent employees or assets that the former president has legally used to provide consulting and other services, but which demonstrates the complexity of the family’s finances,” the AP reports.

“Because the company, WJC, LLC, has no financial assets, Hillary Clinton’s campaign was not obligated to report its existence in her recent financial disclosure report… Little is known about the exact nature and financial worth of Bill Clinton’s non-speech business interests.”

The GOP Has a Math Problem

May 26, 2015 at 1:18 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 161 Comments

The Fix: “If the 2016 GOP nominee gets no better than Romney’s 17 percent of the nonwhite vote, he or she would need 65 percent of the white vote to win, a level achieved in modern times only by Ronald Reagan in his 1984 landslide. Bush’s 2004 winning formula — 26 percent of the nonwhite vote and 58 percent of the white vote — would be a losing formula in 2016, given population changes.”

“The 2016 electorate, demographically speaking, will be worse for Republicans than 2012. And unless Republicans can begin winning more of the nonwhite vote, the 2020 election will be worse for the party than the 2016 election. And 2024 will be worse than, well, you get the idea.”

Bernie Not Found

May 26, 2015 at 1:09 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 7 Comments

Sen. Bernie Sander’s (I-VT) has a great error page for website visitors who arrive via a broken link.

The Rise of Liberals

May 26, 2015 at 12:47 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 25 Comments

For the first time since Gallup began tracking it in 1999, there are now as many Americans who describe their views on social issues as “liberal” as there are who describe them as “conservative,” the Washington Post reports.

“It’s been a long and slow crawl, but Americans have steadily become more liberal on social issues without much interruption — except for a brief dip when President Obama first took office in 2009. Today, it’s tied at 31 percent. Back in 1999, it was about two-to-one conservative over liberal.”

Cuomo Approval Falls to New Low

May 26, 2015 at 12:33 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 5 Comments

A new Siena Research Institute survey in New York finds Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) approval rating at an all-time low, with only 41% approving of his job performance and 59% who do not.

Bonus Quote of the Day

May 26, 2015 at 12:08 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 3 Comments

“I will be very, very, very heavily outspent.”

— Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), in an interview with CNBC, on his presidential campaign.

Landrieu Joins Lobbying Firm

May 26, 2015 at 11:59 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 7 Comments

Former Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) is becoming a lobbyist, the New Orleans Times Picayune reports.

“Former senators are barred from lobbying their former colleagues for two years after the end of their congressional careers. For Landrieu, that means she can’t lobby colleagues until January, 2017. But she can lobby members of the executive branch, and is free to provide Van Ness Feldman clients with strategic advice.”

Pantsuit Up

May 26, 2015 at 11:55 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 23 Comments

Hillary Clinton is selling The Everyday Pantsuit Tee on her campaign website.

Olivia Nuzzi: “The unisex pantsuit t-shirt, reminiscent of the ubiquitous tuxedo t-shirt sold on boardwalks and in Spencer’s Gifts in malls across America, has the distinction of being the most aesthetically unappealing piece of political paraphernalia that I have ever had the displeasure of laying eyes on… It is truly horrific in every imaginable way…”

The Latest on Wonk Wire

May 26, 2015 at 10:42 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

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Investigation Into Schock Fundraising Widens

May 26, 2015 at 9:42 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 8 Comments

Former Rep. Aaron Schock’s (R-IL) use of a couple’s “condo and travel services may run afoul of campaign laws and House ethics rules,” the Chicago Tribune reports.

“And that couple’s financial activity in 2010 raise questions of a possible donor-swapping scheme between Schock’s and now-former Rep. Michael Grimm’s (R-NY) supporters, totaling about $16,000 on each side.”

Meanwhile, the Chicago Sun Times reports Schock also did not report any in-kind donations for a major fundraiser headlined by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) last summer.

Kirkpatrick Will Challenge McCain in Arizona

May 26, 2015 at 9:35 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 40 Comments

Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick (D-AZ) will challenge Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) for U.S. Senate, Roll Call reports, giving Democrats a top recruit in a potential pick-up opportunity in 2016.

How to Deal with So Many Presidential Candidates

May 26, 2015 at 8:01 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 31 Comments

My column in The Week: Republicans should run their debates like American Idol.

The Case for Bernie Sanders

May 26, 2015 at 8:00 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 39 Comments

Steve Kornacki: “The scale of the challenge Bernie Sanders faces is well-established. In Hillary Clinton, he will square off against the most overwhelming non-incumbent front-runner either party has seen since the dawn of the modern nominating process. And while the odds that he’ll actually defeat her are vanishingly slim, he may nonetheless be better-positioned than any other Clinton challenger to at least make her break a sweat.”

First Read: “For political historians out there, think of Sanders as a potential Eugene McCarthy. McCarthy’s ability to gain traction against LBJ drove LBJ out in 1968 and sparked more Dems to run. If Sanders gets enough traction to actually knock off Clinton in an early state, then Katie bar the door.”

GOP Clings to Bush Economics

May 26, 2015 at 7:59 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 24 Comments

Jonathan Chait: “Indeed, the striking fact about the Republican Party is how little it has questioned Bush’s economic program. The central tenets of Bush-era economic doctrine remain as firmly entrenched as ever. All the Republican economic proposals combine deep tax cuts, higher defense spending, and a general refusal to accept that revenues must bear some long-term relationship to likely outlays.”

“The party’s disposition toward Bush’s Iraq War has attracted deep (and warranted) scrutiny. Its disposition toward Bush’s economic policies has not. Despite their bellicose rhetoric, none of the Republican candidates are actually proposing to recapitulate his regime-change policy, in Iraq or elsewhere. It is in domestic policy where Bush-era dogma remains completely unreconstructed.”

Why Announce Now?

May 26, 2015 at 7:58 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 2 Comments

First Read: “If you are a minor candidate who’s not expected to raise a lot of money, there is a strategic reason why you might want to announce in late May or early June: You’re able to downplay your 2nd quarter fundraising report.”

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