Wall Street Journal: “Starting at 8 p.m. on Sunday, 14 men are scheduled to face off in seven bouts under a towering spaceshiplike structure on the South Lawn, fulfilling President Trump’s penchant for showmanship and boundary-pushing as he hosts the Ultimate Fighting Championship.”
“Even by Trump’s standards, the event will be a rare spectacle, merging corporate interests on one of the most famous plots of public land with exclusive access for select VIPs.”
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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.