Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 188
Nothing to See Here
President Biden held off on dropping out partly because he wasn’t sure Kamala Harris could beat Donald Trump, but grim polling data ultimately changed his mind, Axios reports.
Said a Democratic insider: “No one was able to produce data points that showed him winning. They tried everything. There was no path.”
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.