“Donald Trump’s campaign team launched into transition mode barely 12 hours after polls closed — a jarring turn that left exhausted staffers and members of the media scrambling on Wednesday,” Politico reports.
“Huddled in West Palm Beach, Florida, Trump’s advisers by midday were hurriedly ironing out transition plans, particularly how to handle a deluge of questions about the people and policies that will shape the second Trump White House.”
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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.