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— Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), on Twitter, ahead of a joint session of Congress meeting to ratify Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election.
Save to Favorites“Buckle up!”
— Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), on Twitter, ahead of a joint session of Congress meeting to ratify Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election.
Save to Favorites“A proposed amendment to enshrine access to abortion in Nevada’s constitution is one step closer to appearing on the November 2024 ballot, after a coalition of reproductive rights advocates on…
“Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Martin Gruenberg bowed to pressure to resign from the bank regulator after an external investigation found widespread sexual harassment at the agency and lawmakers of…
Trump Media and Technology Group, the company affiliated with Donald Trump that operates Truth Social, reported $770,500 in revenue for the first quarter of 2024 and a net loss of…
“The judge overseeing former President Trump’s New York hush money trial admonished defense witness Robert Costello Monday for his reactions while on the stand,” Axios reports. “It was one of…
“Your honor, the people rest.” — Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass, quoted by the New York Times, at Donald Trump’s criminal “hush money” trial. Save to Favorites
“Sen. Marco Rubio refused to commit to accepting the results of the 2024 election. Sen. Tim Scott said President Biden should take a drug test. And Rep. Elise Stefanik snapped…
“Donald Trump came out swinging Monday morning, pushing back on claims that he froze up during a speech over the weekend and asserting that an apparent mishap involving a wobbly…
“Angling to tap into strong support for the sweeping health law he helped pass 14 years ago, one of President Joe Biden’s latest reelection strategies is to remind voters that…
Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean (D) decided against a bid to challenge Gov. Phil Scott (R), WCAX reports. Said Dean: “In theory, this is a winnable race. But I’ve been…
“Rep. Garret Graves (R-LA) is committed to running for re-election this fall — but uncommitted on the district,” the Louisiana Illuminator reports. “Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to allow…
Washington Post: “It has been nearly two months since a judge ruled Willis could continue prosecuting the Trump case, as long as Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor she’d appointed and…
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Donald Trump said he would consider tapping Ken Paxton for U.S. attorney general if he wins a second term in the White House, the Texas Tribune reports. Said Trump: “I…
NBC News: “Professional line-standers are a growing part of the gig economy. But the criminal trial of a former president accused of illegally covering up hush money payments to a…
Senate Banking Chair Sherrod Brown (D-OH) called on President Biden to replace FDIC Chair Martin Gruenberg, after damning reports of a toxic workplace culture at the bank regulator where Gruenberg…
Donald Trump just sent out a fundraising appeal falsely claiming he “could even be thrown into PRISON FOR LIFE!” if the jury in his “hush money” case returns a guilty…
Paul Bondar (R), who is running in a Republican primary against Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK), told KFOR “he recently moved to Oklahoma because he had been asked to run for…
Michael Cohen admitted he lied to the Trump Organization about the amount he needed to be reimbursed for paying a tech firm to rig polls during the 2016 presidential campaign,…
“Sources close to Sen. Joe Manchin, a mainstay of Democratic politics in West Virginia, say he is being encouraged to run for governor,” West Virginia Metro News reports. “Two sources…
“It is a suicidal attitude. Because one thing is to take tradition into account, to consider situations from the past, but quite another is to be closed up inside a…
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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