Playbook: “It was supposed to be Ron DeSantis’ big day on Capitol Hill. Yet Donald Trump managed to overshadow him from almost 1,000 miles away.”
Politico notes several Republican lawmakers “tried to downplay their attendance, saying they went because the governor was a former colleague and they wanted to say hello.”
Meanwhile, CNN reports that Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) will become the seventh Republican lawmaker from Florida to endorse Trump over DeSantis.
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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.