“Javier Milei shot to prominence lambasting Argentina’s traditional political elite. Now the radical presidential election frontrunner is the mainstream conservatives’ best shot at clinging onto power,” Reuters reports.
“Left without their own candidate in the contest, the center-right has made an uneasy alliance of sorts with Milei that could push the libertarian over the line in Sunday’s run-off vote against Peronist economy minister Sergio Massa.”
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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.
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