Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-TX) lost his reelection bid to challenger Beto O’Rourke (D) in the Democratic primary in Texas’s 16th congressional district, the AP reports.
“The 67-year-old Reyes was first elected to Congress in 1996. Reyes received a rare primary endorsement last month from President Obama.”
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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.
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