“I think the president for all intents and purposes is not the president. He’s just nuts. He’s going crazy.”
— Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), quoted by CBS News.
Save to Favorites“I think the president for all intents and purposes is not the president. He’s just nuts. He’s going crazy.”
— Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), quoted by CBS News.
Save to Favorites“President Biden, prodded by Democrats to confront former President Donald Trump head-on about Mr. Trump’s criminal conviction in his New York hush-money case, heeded those calls on Monday night during…
“A top executive at The Epoch Times, a right-wing media company, has been arrested and charged with laundering at least $67 million in stolen money through company accounts in a…
“Stormy Daniels has some relationship advice for Melania Trump, and—spoiler alert—it’s not to go to couples counseling in an effort to repair her 19-year marriage to Donald Trump,” Vanity Fair…
“Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee raised $141 million in May, according to his campaign, a fundraising total boosted by a surge in contributions after a New York jury…
“The jury that will hear the gun case against Hunter Biden in Delaware has been selected,” CNN reports. “The panel includes twelve jurors along with four alternates. Opening statements are…
Molly Jong-Fast: “If being a convicted felon is so great for Donald Trump, why are Republicans freaking out?” Save to Favorites
“The Georgia Court of Appeals has set a tentative date of October 4 to hear oral arguments in the effort to have Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis removed from…
Aaron Blake: “This is vintage Trump. He’s not explicitly advocating unrest. He’s not even explicitly mentioning unrest in this case. But he is suggestively pointing to something very bad around…
The Republican who serves as Homer Township supervisor is defending himself after ordering the U.S. flag outside the township offices to be flown upside down as a symbol of national…
A man and woman who sold pro-Donald Trump merchandise out of a bus covered with pro-Trump flags and posters are homeless after the vehicle crashed into several street signs and…
“Congress is headed for a perilous spending pileup in early 2025 — with crisis points on the debt ceiling, federal spending, tax cuts and budget caps all hitting in rapid…
“You never close any options. You don’t know what the political arena is going to have.” — Sen. Joe Manchin (I-WV), on Talkline, on running for office after leaving the…
Associated Press: “It’s a truism of the criminal justice system that defendants hoping for lenient treatment at their sentencing are expected to take responsibility for their actions, even express remorse….
Just as the presidential primaries were getting underway, there was a concerted push around the idea that Democrats should dump Joe Biden as their presidential nominee. The argument — summed…
“Bragg should have settled the case against Trump, as would have been the normal procedure. But he made a political decision. Bragg may have won the battle, for now, but…
“President Biden is expected to sign an executive order Tuesday that would ban migrants who cross the border illegally from claiming asylum, allowing them to be quickly deported back to…
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) “will enter the race for the United States Senate today, filing nominating petitions with over 2,000 signatures in Trenton to seek re-election to a fourth term…
“Nigel Farage, the pro-Brexit campaigner and serial disrupter of British politics, on Monday announced plans to run as a candidate in Britain’s general election next month, dealing a new setback…
In the days since Donald Trump was found guilty of 34 felonies, Republicans have rallied around their presumptive nominee for president. And they’ve rallied hard. It’s not surprising since a…
Washington Post: “For nearly a year… the Czech authorities secretly recorded hours of meetings between several far-right politicians from across Europe and the associate, Artem Marchevsky, who was running the…
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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