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Christie May Not Appear on Maine Ballot

December 2, 2023 at 11:04 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is in danger of not appearing on Maine’s primary ballot after he fell short of the minimum 2,000 signatures needed from Maine voters to qualify for the state’s Republican presidential primary,” CBS News reports.

Filed Under: 2024 Campaign

Trump Promises More Activist Government

December 2, 2023 at 7:33 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“As he campaigns to retake the White House, Donald Trump has increasingly tossed aside the principles of limited government and local control that have defined the Republican Party for decades,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“The former president is laying plans to wield his executive authority to influence school curricula, prevent doctors from providing medical interventions for young transgender people and pressure police departments to adopt more severe anticrime policies. All are areas where state or local officials have traditionally taken the lead.”

“It is a governing platform barely recognizable to prior generations of Republican politicians, who campaigned against one-size-fits-all federal dictates and argued that state legislators, mayors and town halls were best positioned to oversee their communities. While many of his proposals would be difficult to achieve, the second-term agenda outlined by Trump could require waves of new federal intervention, even as he calls for firing government workers, neutering the “deep state” and cutting regulations.”

Filed Under: 2024 Campaign

Trump and DeSantis Will Hold Dueling Campaign Events

December 2, 2023 at 7:15 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Ron DeSantis plans on Saturday to complete his campaign promise to visit each of Iowa’s 99 counties, a timeworn tactic for presidential candidates hoping to make their mark in the leadoff state over months mingling with voters at the state’s diners, cookouts and Pizza Ranches,” the AP reports.

“But the Florida governor’s moment, like much of his campaign, will take place under the towering shadow of former President Donald Trump.”

“Around the same time DeSantis is set to take the stage Saturday afternoon in Newton, Iowa, Trump will be addressing cheering supporters about 100 miles away in Cedar Rapids.”

Filed Under: 2024 Campaign

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Trump’s Lawyer Says Trial Would Be Election Interference

December 1, 2023 at 5:04 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Holding Donald Trump’s election interference trial next August would amount to serious ‘election interference,’ the former president’s lead Atlanta attorney told a Fulton County judge on Friday,” the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.

“Making his courtroom debut for Trump, attorney Steve Sadow said the timing proposed by prosecutors — in which the Georgia racketeering case would begin just three months before the general election — would restrict Trump’s ability to campaign for a return trip to the White House. Trump is facing 13 felony charges in Fulton County.”

Politico reports Trump wants his trial pushed to 2029 — after he leaves the presidency, assuming he is elected next year.

Filed Under: 2024 Campaign, Trump Legacy

Trump Accuses GOP Lawmaker of Running ‘Scam PAC’

December 1, 2023 at 4:39 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign accused Rep. Kevin Hern (R-OK) of misusing the former president’s image and tricking donors in an online fundraising scheme, The Messenger reports.

Filed Under: 2024 Campaign, Campaign Finance

Here We Go Again?

December 1, 2023 at 3:24 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Andrew Sullivan: “I was one of a handful of pundits who thought in early 2016 that Trump not only could, but probably would, win the election. I could feel his appeal in my lizard brain, and had long studied the fragility of liberal democracy in my frontal cortex. But the moment I knew his presidency was almost certain was when the Brexit result was announced in June, when everyone still assumed Hillary was a shoo-in. Something was stirring. And that’s why, after my annual trip back to Britain last week, I’m feeling the nausea again.”

“The mood is just ugly — a deep pessimism suffused with barely stifled fury. It’s not quite right or left, as we used to understand those things. It’s more irrational than that, and less predictable.”

Filed Under: 2024 Campaign

DeSantis Campaign Blames His Super PAC

December 1, 2023 at 3:17 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Tensions between Ron DeSantis’ struggling presidential campaign and his allied super PAC are boiling over, with the campaign losing confidence in Never Back Down’s leadership and ability to orchestrate a TV advertising campaign,” Politico reports.

Filed Under: 2024 Campaign

Democrats Relish Trump’s Obamacare Comments

December 1, 2023 at 2:45 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Democratic Senate candidates across the country are relishing the notion of playing off former President Donald Trump’s renewed calls to repeal the Affordable Care Act if he wins the presidency next year,” The Messenger reports.

Filed Under: 2024 Campaign, Health Care

Inside Donald Trump’s Campaign for Young Voters

December 1, 2023 at 2:18 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Semafor: “The hope is to marry Trump’s base of young conservative voters with a mix of disaffected Biden voters and more politically marginal voters that can be reached outside conventional media. They are looking at ways to leverage Trump’s inroads in pop culture, especially hip hop.”

Filed Under: 2024 Campaign

DeSantis Super PAC Suffers Another Big Staff Loss

December 1, 2023 at 1:05 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The main super PAC supporting Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign has been rocked by another significant departure, as Adam Laxalt, a friend and former roommate of the Florida governor, has stepped down as chairman of the group,” the New York Times reports.

“Mr. Laxalt, who unsuccessfully ran to become a Republican senator in Nevada in 2022, lived with Mr. DeSantis when he was training as a naval officer. He joined Never Back Down in April, soon after his own campaign ended and before Mr. DeSantis officially joined the presidential race, in a move that was widely seen as Mr. DeSantis and his wife seeking to have someone they trusted monitoring the activities of the well-funded group.”

Filed Under: 2024 Campaign

Special Election to Replace Santos Is a Toss Up

December 1, 2023 at 1:02 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The Cook Political Report rates the race to fill the seat of expelled former Rep. George Santos (R-NY) as a Toss Up.

Filed Under: 2024 Campaign

‘The End of the Republic’

December 1, 2023 at 12:58 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) told CBS News that Donald Trump’s election in 2024 would be “the end of the Republic.”

She also expressed alarm at how comfortable the Republican party has become with his lies.

Filed Under: 2024 Campaign

Why Cornel West Is Broke

December 1, 2023 at 11:40 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Newly uncovered divorce filings reveal allegations of a “secret life” and help explain why the presidential candidate, who has earned millions of dollars over the years, has hardly anything left, Forbes reports.

Filed Under: 2024 Campaign

The Dual Threat of Donald Trump

December 1, 2023 at 11:34 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

David Graham: “A candidate who is running to potentially stay out of prison is a dangerous candidate. He is not just running for his own ideology or pride; he’s running for his very freedom. That warps his incentives, making him more likely to employ demagogic tactics, less concerned about the way history might judge him, and more inclined to use every avenue possible to win the election—even if it means bending or breaking the law.”

“Yet Trump may not be alone. In recent weeks, the former president has been more explicit about his intention, if reelected, to prosecute Joe Biden. And that means both leading candidates could have their freedom at stake.”

Filed Under: 2024 Campaign

There’s a Bomb Under the Table

December 1, 2023 at 11:32 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Pamela Paul: “Trump’s first term will look benign compared with what we can expect from a second. ‘The gloves are off,’ Trump has declared.”

“Still, the Democrats act as if everything is normal. They talk about why to support Joe Biden’s campaign for re-election: He has done a pretty good job, they say. He led the country out of the pandemic and avoided a deep recession. He beat all other primary candidates last time. And he beat Trump before. We should go with a proven contender.”

“But even if Biden has done a pretty good job as president, most Americans don’t see that. His approval ratings have just hit a new low. Biden may want another term, but the obvious if unchivalrous response is, ‘So what?’ Not every person, whether young or elderly, wants what is in his own best interest, let alone in the interest of a nation. Democrats can’t afford to take a version of the ‘It’s Bob Dole’s turn’ approach this time around.”

Filed Under: 2024 Campaign

Trump Steps Up His Advertising in Iowa

December 1, 2023 at 10:05 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“With less than 50 days until the Iowa caucuses, former President Donald Trump’s campaign is making a major weekly six-figure advertisement buy in the Hawkeye State — marking one of the first times the campaign will go up on broadcast TV as the early GOP front-runner takes a big step in seeking to fend off his rivals,” ABC News reports.

“In a preview of the two ads set to air in Iowa, first shared with ABC News, the campaign plans to attack President Joe Biden in one and tout Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’ past praise of Trump in another.”

Filed Under: 2024 Campaign

Extra Bonus Quote of the Day

December 1, 2023 at 8:01 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“People increasingly think it’s over. It’s a dumpster fire.”

— A person close to Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), quoted by the Washington Post, on his presidential campaign.

Filed Under: 2024 Campaign

Tucker Carlson Endorses Trump for President

December 1, 2023 at 7:23 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Tucker Carlson told Roseanne Barr that he’s endorsing Donald Trump for president.

Said Carlson: “I became an active Trump supporter when they raided Mar-a-Lago last summer. That just can’t stand. I’m voting for Trump, and if they convict him, I will send him the max donations and I will lead protests. That’s how I feel.”

Carlson added that he has “always agreed with Trump’s policies,” even “losing friends over it.”

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.

Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.

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