Chuck Todd tells Politico that after several appearances as a candidate on Meet the Press, Donald Trump would lean back in his chair and request that the control room replay his appearance on a monitor without sound.
Said Todd: “He wants to see what it all looked like. He will watch the whole thing on mute.”
He added: “He’s a very visual guy. He thinks this way, and look, it’s an important insight in just understanding him. The visual stuff is very real beyond just himself.”
“Kristian Denny Todd, the Democratic strategist and wife of Meet The Press moderator Chuck Todd, is working with former Sen. Jim Webb as he considers a 2016 presidential bid,” Politico reports.
“Todd previously served as the communications director for Webb’s 2006 Senate campaign in Virginia. She is not currently being paid by Webb’s office, according to spending reports for Webb’s political action committee.”
“He’s just sad.”
— President Obama, quoted by the New York Post, picking up a copy of Chuck Todd’s new book, The Stranger: Barack Obama in the White House, in a Washington, DC bookstore.
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“I am not looking forward to the next time I see him.”
— Chuck Todd, talking to Conan O’Brien about his new book, The Stranger: Barack Obama in the 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.