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Donnelly Will Vote Against Kavanaugh

September 28, 2018 at 12:25 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-IN) — a red state Democrat up for re-election in 2018 — announced Friday that he will oppose Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, CNN reports.

“The Indiana senator was one of three Democrats in the chamber to back President Donald Trump’s first Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, and Donnelly had been an a handful of undecided senators from red or purple states that Kavanaugh’s supporters had targeted for support.”

Donnelly Profits from Same Outsourcing He Slams

July 13, 2017 at 9:11 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-IN) “railed against Carrier Corp. for moving manufacturing jobs to Mexico last year, even as he profited from a family business that relies on Mexican labor to produce dye for ink pads,” the AP reports.

“Donnelly, considered one of the nation’s most vulnerable Democratic senators up for re-election next year, has long blasted free-trade policies for killing American jobs… However, an arts and crafts business Donnelly’s family has owned for generations is capitalizing on some of the very trade policies — and low-paid foreign labor — the senator has denounced.”

Quote of the Day

January 24, 2017 at 12:55 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“I, every day, look at this as I’m 10 points down with 10 days to go. We don’t want to waste a second.”

— Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-IN), quoted by National Journal, on his reelection efforts.

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.

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