Nicole Goodkind

Staff Writer

Nicole Goodkind is a political reporter with a focus on Congress. She previously worked as a reporter for Yahoo Finance, where she covered fiscal and monetary policy. Before that she wrote about music and culture for Paper Magazine, The Today Show and Fuse TV. Nicole is a native New Yorker.

  
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 Can Biden Overcome Past Mistakes to Face Trump in 2020? The GOP quickly jumped on Joe Biden’s history of losing. He "has been running for president and losing since the ’80s, 2020 won’t be any different," read a Republican National Committee statement.
  
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 O'Rourke: We Need Consequences For Trump Border Policy The former El Paso congressman said of those who advocated for the policy of border separation that “without accountability, you won’t have justice. Without justice you will not have rule of law in...
  
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 Pelosi: Republicans Should Be 'Ashamed' of Trump “If the fact-finding takes us [to impeachment], we have no choice, but we’re not there yet,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said.
  
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 Hillary Clinton Says She Understands Rise of Socialism Capitalism, said Clinton, has been growing more “predatory” and “free of any kind of check and balance” since the 1960s and 1970s.
  
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 Hillary Clinton on Trump Impeachment: It’s on the Table “I have a weird, personal history with impeachment,” said Hillary Clinton to laughs from the TIME 100 Summit audience.
  
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 Pete Buttigieg Isn’t Winning Enough Black Voters Buttigieg has raced ahead in Democratic polls this month but still struggles to attract the black and Hispanic vote, crucial blocs for a Democratic presidential contender.
  
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 How Elizabeth Warren Stands Out from 2020 Contenders  In a presidential race starved for hard policy ideas, the Massachusetts senator is looking for a way to set herself apart, and she may have found it.
  
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 How Democrats Will Use Mueller Report to Win in 2020 Robert Mueller spent 22 months investigating how Russia interfered in the 2016 election and whether it was aided by the Trump campaign. We've seen most of his conclusions, but what happens now?
  
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 Mueller Report Passes Buck to Congress “The conclusion that Congress may apply the obstruction laws to the President’s corrupt exercise of the powers of office accords with our constitutional system of checks and balances and the...
  
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 Robert Mueller Did Not Absolve Trump of Collusion The only references to "collusion" in Mueller's report quote the president, his surrogates and former FBI Director James Comey.
  
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 Mueller Report Release: Live Updates  Live updates the special counsel Robert Mueller's report.
  
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 New York Voters Haven’t Made Up Minds About Buttigieg  The South Bend, Indiana, mayor got personal, telling a crowd in Brooklyn that he would like to have a child soon. He also aired a little marital grief.
  
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 Pete Buttigieg Draws Obama Comparisons Amid 2020 Surge “His is a campaign not just for an office but for an era,” a judicial adviser to Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign commented.
  
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 William Barr Is Redefining What It Means to 'Spy' President Donald Trump repeats the attorney general's claim that the federal government spied on his 2016 campaign.
  
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 Where Democrats Stand on Medicare for All “This is a struggle for the heart and soul of who we are as American people,” said Sanders. “The American people are increasingly clear: They want a health care system that guarantees health care...
  
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 Texas Debate Over Confederate Monuments Gets Heated "We want to teach, so should we erect a statue with slaves hanging from a tree?" Democratic state Representative Jarvis Johnson said knocked Republican supporters of a bill that would protect...
  
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 Meghan McCain Slams Trump After He Pays Tribute to POWs "No one believes you care about prisoners of war and 'people who get captured,'" Meghan McCain wrote back to the president on Tuesday.
  
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 56 Percent Say Race Relations Are Worse Under Trump About two-thirds of Americans in a new Pew Research Center survey said it had become more common for people to express racist views since Donald Trump took office.
  
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 Trump Deems Iran Revolutionary Guard a Terrorist Org Israel heads to the polls on Tuesday, April 9.
  
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 Bernie Sanders Leads the 2020 Presidential Pack Can Bernie Sanders now win over those who voted for Donald Trump in 2016?
  
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 Trump is Right, There is a Border Crisis  Donald Trump's solutions could make the crisis worse.
  
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 Herman Cain’s Most Bizarre Moments  Fed nominee Herman Cain has a history of gaffes and notorious moments from his years on the campaign trail that could be hard to shake off during a Senate confirmation hearing. Here are a few of them.
  
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 Dems Celebrate 100 Days in House by Going After Trump House Democrats requested six years’ worth of the president’s tax returns through the IRS and began the process to subpoena the full and unredacted Mueller report.
  
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 Beto O’Rourke Tops Democratic Field in Daily Donations O'Rourke earned nearly $10 million in just 18 days, but can he keep that momentum going?
  
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 Matt Gaetz Argues Against Equality Bill  "Consider this possibility—if President Trump were to say, I am now the first female president? Who would celebrate that?" Gaetz said during a Tuesday hearing.
  
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 Path to Power: A Conversation With Robert Caro Prize-winning author and presidential chronicler Robert Caro has a new book. And no, it’s not about Lyndon Johnson.
  
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 GOP Darling Charlie Kirk Is Worried About AOC, Sanders "I’m worried about her ideas. She’s nothing more than the symptom of a broken culture," Charlie Kirk said of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
  
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 If Trump Wins in 2020, the GOP Is Ruined: Jeff Flake Another four years of Trump could doom the Republican Party for good, says former Arizona Senator Jeff Flake.
  
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 Joe Biden Accused of Unwanted Kiss While Vice President “My brain couldn’t process what was happening. I was embarrassed,” wrote Lucy Flores. “I couldn’t move and I couldn’t say anything. I wanted nothing more than to get Biden away from me.”
  
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 ‘I Took Better Care of Puerto Rico Than Any Man’: Trump “Puerto Rico has been taken care of better by Donald Trump than by any living human being. I think the people of Puerto Rico understand it. But you do have a mayor of San Juan that frankly doesn’t...
  
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 Mueller Finished His Report: Here’s What Happens Next Attorney General William Barr intends to inform Congress over the weekend about special counsel Robert Mueller’s conclusions in the probe.
  
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 An End to Affirmative Action? In a renewed push for total meritocracy in college admissions, affirmative action could join legacy admissions in going by the wayside.