Josh Dawsey

2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America Josh Dawsey

Three award-winning reporters offer the definitive, inside story of the most tumultuous and consequential presidential campaign in US history. "The whole world was against me, and I won," said Donald Trump in an interview, ten days before his second inauguration. Nearly four years after Trump's turbulent presidency concluded in a violent attempt to overturn the election, he made a political comeback on a scale that stunned the nation. How did the first US president to become a convicted felon regain control of the White House? And at what cost? In 2024, award-winning reporters Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager, and Isaac Arnsdorf bring us the definitive and explosive account of how Trump and his advisers overcame a dozen primary challengers, four indictments, two assassination attempts, and his own past mistakes to defeat the Democrats, and pave the way for a second term that would be far more aggressive and ruthless than the first. Drawing on extraordinary access to the Trump, Biden, and Harris teams, 2024 takes readers beyond the speeches, rallies, and debates and reveals the innermost workings of the Republican and Democratic presidential campaigns. Beginning in August 2022 with the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago, the authors chart how Trump stifled the rise of Republican opponents, and how his campaign landed on a winning strategy. They reveal how Joe Biden and his team brushed off concerns about his age, ignored polling numbers, and held off the next generation of eager Democratic hopefuls. After his disastrous debate performance forced him to withdraw, Biden anointed vice president Kamala Harris as the candidate and tasked her with running the shortest presidential campaign in modern U. S. history. On November 5th, 2024, Trump was elected the nation's 47th president. Gripping and revelatory, 2024 is the shocking inside story of one of the most consequential elections of our lifetime, the result of which will test American democracy and shape the future of the free world.