“In a stunning move with less than two weeks before the primary, Milwaukee Bucks executive Alex Lasry (D) is dropping out of the Democratic U.S. Senate race after having spent more than $12.3 million on the contest,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
“Lasry’s withdrawal puts Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes (D) in the driver’s seat to win the Aug. 9 primary and face Sen. Ron Johnson (R) in the fall… Lasry is expected to endorse Barnes.”
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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.