“Former President Trump — now a criminal defendant — has consolidated control over the House GOP, scrambling the majority’s agenda and cementing his status as the true power behind the gavel,” Axios reports.
“Trump’s allies had already ensured that the central themes of his 2024 campaign — victimhood and vengeance — would permeate the House GOP’s priorities. Trump’s indictment has kicked that dynamic into overdrive — unnerving some vulnerable Republicans in the process.”
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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.