Bloomberg: “Senate Republicans are girding for a demand by Donald Trump to undo the chamber’s filibuster traditions in order to advance his agenda if he returns to the White House.”
“But any attempt to eject that rule would face staunch opposition from the vast majority of Senate Republicans, who in interviews ruled out doing away with the super-majority threshold in the event they regain the majority in November.”
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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.