“While Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is intensely focused on November 5, and the opportunity for his party to flip a few seats and retake the House, there’s another consequential date weighing on his mind,” Vanity Fair reports.
Said Jeffries: “One of the reasons it’s extremely important for House Democrats to win the majority in November is so that we have the gavel in our hands on January 3 and can certify the results of the presidential election on January 6.”
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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.