“This president is guilty of inciting insurrection. He has to pay a price for that.”
— Speaker Nancy Pelosi, on 60 Minutes.
Save to Favorites“This president is guilty of inciting insurrection. He has to pay a price for that.”
— Speaker Nancy Pelosi, on 60 Minutes.
Save to FavoritesA new New York Times/Siena College survey of voters previously interviewed finds that Joe Biden appeared to gain slightly in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s conviction last week for falsifying business…
“Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked consideration of legislation that would create a federal right to birth control, after Republicans argued the bill was unnecessary and overly broad,” The Hill reports….
“A Georgia appeals court halted the criminal election case against Donald Trump in that state pending the outcome of his bid to disqualify the district attorney prosecuting the former president,”…
Sarah Longwell: “The day after former President Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felonies, I sat down for a focus group with nine voters from across the country who voted…
A new new NewsNation/Decision Desk HQ poll finds 58% of registered voters say they are living paycheck to paycheck. Nearly 45% said they are worse off than a year ago…
McKay Coppins: “In a CNN interview shortly after launching his presidential campaign in 2015, Donald Trump told a skeptical Jake Tapper that he was ‘in it to win it’ and…
Donald Trump complained once again that his “hush money” criminal trial was “unfair” to him, adding disappointedly that he “never saw a glimmer of a smile from the jury,” the…
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) suggested that the Jim Crow era had some virtues for Black people while trying to persuade voters of color to back Donald Trump, the New York…
“For nearly four years, Republicans have delved into the darkest corners of Hunter Biden’s life, seeking to tie his troubles to his father, President Biden. But as the younger Biden…
“About a hundred Trump supporters, overwhelmingly Black men, gathered at The Cigar Code on Tuesday evening in North Philadelphia, filing into a smoke-filled room with tufted sofas for an informal…
National and state Republican Party officials are slowly revving up recruitment and plans for what they say will be an “unprecedented” Election Day army of 100,000 poll workers, monitors and…
“Donald Trump will attend a private meeting with one of the most powerful business lobbying groups in Washington as he tries to craft an alliance with major corporate leaders,” NBC…
A new Quinnipiac poll in Georgia finds Donald Trump leads Joe Biden in the presidential race, 49% to 44%. In a six-way hypothetical race that includes other candidates, Trump leads…
“Donald Trump’s search for a running mate is intensifying, as the former president awaits sentencing on felony charges and prepares for next month’s Republican National Convention,” NBC News reports. “Vice…
“Senate Democratic campaigns are launching a month-long blitz on reproductive rights, pressing Republicans on abortion as the second anniversary of the fall of Roe v. Wade approaches,” Axios reports. “Republicans…
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office argued in a letter made public Wednesday that former President Trump’s partial gag order in his New York criminal case should stay in effect…
“I have to say this: Every conversation that everyone has in every focus group about President Biden begins with age, in the middle it’s age, and at the end it’s…
“Harry Dunn, the former Capitol Police officer who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6 and unsuccessfully ran for a House seat in Maryland last month, is starting a new PAC…
Former Utah House speaker Brad Wilson’s (R) U.S. Senate campaign “may be quietly throwing in the towel — even as Republican primary voters began receiving their mail-in ballots in Utah,”…
White House officials and President Biden’s allies went on the attack against The Wall Street Journal after the news outlet published a report on the president’s performance in private meetings…
Taegan 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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