“They start shooting them right between the eyes and you see a guy fall and another one fall and you have no guns, very few people would be able to stand there and do it… They had like 4 or 5 snipers in buildings up high, and you’re standing there and all of a sudden the guy on your left goes down.”
— President Trump, speaking to reporters as he’s surrounded by children in the Oval Office.
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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.