A new CBS News poll in New Hampshire finds Donald Trump leading the GOP presidential race with 32%, followed by Marco Rubio at 13%, Ben Carson at 10%, Ted Cruz at 10%, John Kasich at 8%, Jeb Bush at 6%, Carly Fiorina at 6% and Chris Christie at 5%.


A new CBS News poll in New Hampshire finds Donald Trump leading the GOP presidential race with 32%, followed by Marco Rubio at 13%, Ben Carson at 10%, Ted Cruz at 10%, John Kasich at 8%, Jeb Bush at 6%, Carly Fiorina at 6% and Chris Christie at 5%.
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Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) “broadened his attack on the Trump administration’s handling of records about the financing of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking network, urging the Internal Revenue Service to investigate…
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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.
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