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June 26, 2016By Taegan Goddard0 Comments

“We have a candidate who doesn’t need to figure out what’s going on in order to say what he wants to do.”

— Trump adviser Paul Manafort, in an interview on Meet the Press.

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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 Wonk Wire, Political Job Hunt 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.

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Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.

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