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President Trump quoted House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy last night in a tweet saying House Republicans would sustain a possible veto of an attempt to stop Trump’s proposed tariffs on Mexico.
Playbook: “We cannot find McCarthy saying that anywhere. His office pointed us to his interview with Laura Ingraham. Nothing he said there resembles what Trump quoted McCarthy as saying. The White House did not immediately reply to a request for comment.”
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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.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.