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Troops at Inauguration Pre-Screened for Extremism

January 17, 2021 at 11:53 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The roughly 25,000 National Guardsmen deployed to the U.S. capital to ensure President-elect Joe Biden is able to be sworn in peacefully went through an additional background check to weed out any whiff of domestic extremism,” Defense One reports.

“Added for one of the most fraught deployments in the history of the Guard, the screening is ‘about the same’ as the standard background check that Guardsmen go through when they initially enlist, the commanding general of the D.C. National Guard said in an interview on Saturday.”

Filed Under: Biden Transition, National Security

Most Republicans Still Don’t See Biden as Legitimate

January 17, 2021 at 9:47 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

ABC News-Washington Post poll: “Overall, more than 6 in 10 Americans say Biden was legitimately elected as the 46th president, including more than 9 in 10 Democrats and more than 6 in 10 independents. But 7 in 10 Republicans say he was not legitimately elected.”

“That suggests that Trump’s claims of widespread voter fraud, propagated by many other Republicans, have taken root within the party despite the absence of credible evidence, dozens of failed legal challenges and multiple recounts affirming Biden’s victories in Georgia and Wisconsin.”

Washington Post: Republicans call for unity but won’t acknowledge Biden won fairly.

Filed Under: Biden Transition

MyPillow Guy Hopes Military Presence Is Trump’s Plan

January 16, 2021 at 10:12 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Following his meeting with President Trump on Friday, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell said in a Facebook interview that he’s praying that the military presence in Washington for the inauguration is part of Trump’s plan to retain power.

Filed Under: Biden Transition

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Biden Plans Blitz of Executive Orders

January 16, 2021 at 3:38 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President-elect Joe Biden, inheriting a collection of crises unlike any in generations, plans to open his administration with dozens of executive directives on top of expansive legislative proposals in a 10-day blitz meant to signal a turning point for a nation reeling from disease, economic turmoil, racial strife and now the aftermath of the assault on the Capitol,” the New York Times reports.

“Mr. Biden’s team has developed a raft of decrees that he can issue on his own authority after the inauguration on Wednesday to begin reversing some of President Trump’s most hotly disputed policies. Advisers hope the flurry of action, without waiting for Congress, will establish a sense of momentum for the new president even as the Senate puts his predecessor on trial.”

“On his first day in office alone, Mr. Biden intends a flurry of executive orders that will be partly substantive and partly symbolic. They include rescinding the travel ban on several predominantly Muslim countries, rejoining the Paris climate change accord, extending pandemic-related limits on evictions and student loan payments, issuing a mask mandate for federal property and interstate travel and ordering agencies to figure out how to reunite children separated from families after crossing the border.”

Filed Under: Biden Transition

Harris to Be Sworn In By Justice Sotomayor

January 16, 2021 at 2:53 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“When Vice President-elect Kamala Harris takes the oath of office at Wednesday’s inauguration, the magnitude of her historic election will be marked not only in her remarks but in the details,” ABC News reports.

“The Vice President-elect will be sworn in by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, another historic female first. Sotomayor is the first Latina Supreme Court Justice.”

Filed Under: Biden Transition

Biden Fills Out State Department Team

January 16, 2021 at 8:34 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President-elect Joe Biden is filling out his State Department team with a group of former career diplomats and veterans of the Obama administration, signaling his desire to return to a more traditional foreign policy after four years of uncertainty and unpredictability under President Donald Trump,” the AP reports.

“A transition official said Biden intends to nominate Wendy Sherman as deputy secretary of state and Victoria Nuland as undersecretary of state for political affairs — the second- and third-highest ranking posts, respectively.”

Filed Under: Biden Transition, Foreign Affairs

Senate Postpones Hearing for Biden’s Spy Chief

January 16, 2021 at 7:25 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The Senate Intelligence Committee has postponed a confirmation hearing — originally scheduled for Friday — for President-elect Biden’s nominee for director of national intelligence, Avril Haines, until next week,” Axios reports.

Filed Under: Biden Transition

Biden Makes Science Adviser a Cabinet Position

January 15, 2021 at 7:25 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President-elect Joe Biden announced Friday that he has chosen a pioneer in mapping the human genome to be his chief science adviser and is elevating the top science job to a Cabinet position, the AP reports.

Filed Under: Biden Transition, Science

Trump Foreign Policy Moves ‘Feel Like Sabotage’

January 15, 2021 at 6:02 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Days before the inauguration, President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team criticized recent Trump administration policy announcements, suggesting that a series of recent statements “begin to feel like sabotage,” the AP reports.

“In the last week, the State Department announced significant policies on Yemen, Cuba, Taiwan and Iran that senior Trump administration officials insist they have been pushing for months, if not years, but that critics label as motivated more by politics than policy.”

Filed Under: Biden Transition, Foreign Affairs

Ted Cruz Will Attend Biden’s Inauguration

January 15, 2021 at 2:57 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) will attend President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20, sources tell KXAN.

“Calls for Cruz to resign mounted in the week since rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol after Cruz called on his colleagues to object to certifying the Electoral College vote.”

Filed Under: Biden Transition

Pence Calls Harris to Offer Assistance

January 15, 2021 at 1:15 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Vice President Mike Pence telephoned Vice President-elect Kamala Harris Thursday to congratulate her and offer his assistance ahead of next week’s swearing-in, the latest indication that Mr. Pence is filling the leadership role all but abdicated by President Trump,” the New York Times reports.

“The conversation, which was relayed by two officials briefed on the call, was described as gracious and pleasant. The discussion is the first time Mr. Pence and Ms. Harris have spoken since they debated each other last fall.”

Filed Under: Biden Transition

Tuberville Suggests Delaying Inauguration

January 14, 2021 at 10:53 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) questioned the timing of Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20 in an interview with WIAT.

Said Tuberville: “We probably could have had a swearing-in and inauguration later after we got this virus behind us a little bit. Again, we’re talking about Washington, D.C..”

“However, the 20th Amendment to the Constitution requires that the inauguration and swearing-in of a new President take place on January 20th.  It wasn’t clear if Tuberville was aware of that during the interview.”

Filed Under: Biden Transition

Biden Postpones Inaugural Rehearsal

January 14, 2021 at 10:15 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A rehearsal for Joe Biden’s inauguration scheduled for Sunday has been postponed because of security concerns, Politico reports.

Filed Under: Biden Transition

Biden Picks More Women for Cabinet Than Predecessors

January 14, 2021 at 9:53 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President-elect Joe Biden has chosen more women for his cabinet than his six predecessors had at the start of their administrations, according to new research from the Brookings Institution, after women played a key role in his November election win,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

Filed Under: Biden Transition

Melania Leaves Quietly

January 14, 2021 at 2:52 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

CNN: “First lady Melania Trump has spent the last several weeks operating inside a gray area of what might happen … The outgoing first lady hasn’t done anything of significance as the weeks of her tenure come to a close. She hasn’t established an office for continuing her platform in the post-White House years, according to a source familiar with her activities. Nor has she helped with the onboarding of incoming first lady Jill Biden — with whom she has still not made contact…”

“The only thing Trump has done, besides pack the White House, work on photo albums of her time as first lady and oversee photo shoots of a rug and decorative items, is make a convoluted statement about the events of last Wednesday, five days after they occurred.”

Filed Under: Biden Transition

Entire National Mall to Close on Inauguration Day

January 14, 2021 at 10:54 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The entire National Mall will be closed for Inauguration Day, only accessible by media and security personnel,” the Washington Post reports.

“The extraordinary closure is the latest in a series of security measures to harden the city against the type of violence that rocked the Capitol on Jan. 6. Local and federal officials had already established a downtown security zone and called up more than 20,000 National Guard troops to protect the presidential swearing in on Jan. 20.”

Filed Under: Biden Transition

Biden Will Skip Train to Washington

January 13, 2021 at 10:45 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President-elect Joe Biden will no longer be taking an Amtrak train to Washington for his inauguration because of security concerns, the AP reports.

Filed Under: Biden Transition

Senate Will Hold Hearing for Biden’s Intelligence Chief

January 13, 2021 at 6:20 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Senate Republicans are heeding calls to protect national security, agreeing to hold a confirmation hearing Friday for Joe Biden’s nominee for director of national intelligence,” Axios reports.

” The hearing will take place at noon via WebEx. It will occur virtually, since senators are in recess until Jan. 19. The hearing will be held by the Senate Intelligence Committee, whose top Democrat is Mark Warner of Virginia.”

Filed Under: Biden Transition

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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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