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“Sen. Tina Smith is endorsing Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan as her successor over Rep. Angie Craig, taking sides in a hotly contested primary to fill Smith’s Senate seat that’s…
Nate Silver: “It’s prudent to consider worst-case scenarios. What makes the situation especially hard to assess is that there’s no particularly clear precedent for the situation the United States finds…
President Trump announced the U.S. and India have reached a trade deal and will immediately move to lower tariffs on each other’s goods, CNBC reports. Trump added that Prime Minister…
New York Magazine profiles Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC). “She was obsessed with monitoring her reputation online. In addition to reportedly having her staff create burner accounts to defend her, Mace…
“By any measure, the FBI’s search of an election center in Fulton County, Ga., last week was extraordinary. Agents seized truckloads of 2020 ballots, as President Trump harnessed the levers…
Democrats are approaching their political comeback the only way they can: one step at a time. First come the midterms. If they want any real leverage, they need to win…
Quinta Jurecic: “On the basis of the record available so far, the case against them appears factually weak, legally shoddy, and marred by a baffling series of procedural irregularities that…
“Middle East powers are working to arrange a meeting between the US and Iran as the Islamic republic signals that it is preparing to hold negotiations with the Trump administration…
“An official in Fulton County, Georgia, announced the county will file a lawsuit Monday over the FBI’s search and seizure of 2020 election records,” CNN reports. “The FBI served a…
ProPublica published the names of the two federal agents who shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, with an editor’s note saying “few investigations deserve more sunlight and public scrutiny than this…
“I applaud Don Lemon being arrested. He should be. As I go through the state and I hear people, they are tired of this. They are tired of seeing what’s…
Kaitlyn Tiffany: “The chaotic end to the files’ release is really just a beginning.” Save to Favorites
President Donald Trump has threatened to sue the journalist Michael Wolff, accusing the author of “conspiring with Jeffrey Epstein” to harm him, the Daily Beast reports. Wolff responds: “This is…
“A swing of this magnitude is not something that can be dismissed. Republicans should be clear-eyed about the political environment heading into the midterms.” — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, warning…
Jonathan Cohn: “As of this past Wednesday, the South Carolina Department of Public Health had logged more than eight hundred cases of the highly contagious disease, with many more unreported…
Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon (R) told Wyoming PBS he hasn’t yet ruled out a bid for a third term. However, he would need to challenge a state law limiting governors…
“U.S. weapons makers are fighting a battle on two fronts: ensuring strong returns for investors and trying to satisfy their biggest customer—the Pentagon,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Lockheed Martin,…
The U.S. population could decline this year for the first time in American history, Bloomberg reports. Save to Favorites
“A U.S. intelligence official has alleged wrongdoing by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in a whistleblower complaint that is so highly classified it has sparked months of wrangling over…
Bill and Hillary Clinton have been advised to cut a deal with Republicans to avoid being held in criminal contempt of Congress, after they defied a congressional subpoena to testify…
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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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