FiveThirtyEight launched its national polling average for the 2024 Republican presidential primary.
It shows Donald Trump receiving 49.3% of the national vote and Gov. Ron DeSantis (who has not officially entered the race) receiving 26.2%. Mike Pence, another potential candidate, is at 5.8%, while Nikki Haley is at 4.3%.
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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.