2024

How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America

De: Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager, Isaac Arnsdorf

Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini

In 2024, award-winning reporters Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager, and Isaac Arnsdorf bring us the definitive, inside story of the most tumultuous and consequential presidential campaign in our history.

“The whole world was against me, and I won,” said Donald Trump in an exclusive interview, ten days before his second inauguration. Nearly four years after Trump’s first 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 U.S. president to become a convicted felon regain control of the White House? And at what cost? 2024 is the 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 listeners beyond the speeches, rallies, and debates to reveal the innermost workings of the Republican and Democratic presidential campaigns. Beginning in August 2022 with the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago for classified documents, and Trump’s subsequent decision to run once again for president, Dawsey, Pager, and Arnsdorf chart how Trump stifled the rise of Republican opponents, including Ron DeSantis, and how his campaign, led by Susie Wiles, landed on a winning strategy. They reveal in unrivaled detail 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—even as Biden was dealing with his own special counsel investigation and the trial of his son Hunter. 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. With only 107 days to distinguish herself from the past four years, Harris lacked the time or space to outrun Biden’s shadow—a challenge in and of itself, but one which Biden would make even more difficult. On November 5th, 2024, Trump was elected the nation’s forty-seventh president, and would return to power vindicated, emboldened, unrestrained, and burning for revenge.

Gripping, revelatory, and deeply reported, 2024 is the shocking inside story of the election that tested American democracy and would go on to shape the future of the free world.

©2025 Penguin Publishing Group (P)2025 Penguin Audio

Trump is a pig.

everyone working for trump, are likewise......pigs, huge porcine mounds of just a little too much gall and blather.

Great but bias

I really liked the book. It was super well-written and covered a ton of stuff. I found it really engaging and interesting. There were some things I didn't know. Politics is a tough game, not for the faint of heart. If I had one issue with the book, it's that the writers are clearly anti-Trump. They go easy on Biden and Harris, like they're these perfect people who only mess up by accident, never on purpose. With Trump, he's the bad guy, a liar who never means what he says. Even when he's telling the truth, they don't let up on him. If you can get past that, the book is good, and it's not like it's everywhere, but you can definitely see their bias in certain parts, and it's totally anti-Trump.

Incredible

Great listen. MAGA all the way. The author hates Trump but tells the truth. And that truth is Trump beat Biden and Harris

Some Interesting Info but Weirdly Gullible Authors

The authors seem to take their interviewee's word for things uncritically, even when it should set off your BS alarms. This is true for both Dems and Republicans, but they're especially bad about trusting Dems.

For instance, at one point Trump says he never considered running for President again until the documents indictment. Really? Not even a thought of running again? Even though tons of people were urging him to run again? Don't bother looking into the outside facts or conflicting quotes, they said so therefore it must be true.

Worst of all is when they breeze past Joe Biden's disasterous debate performance by saying "Every one [of his aides] agree that nothing nearly that bad had ever happened before." Really? You're just going to take their word for it? You're not going to mention all the public appearances where he was noticably getting worse? Not going to mention how this statement conflicts with all the on-the-record and off-the-record comments about Biden's slow decline in Original Sin by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson?

Like I said, the whole book is weirdly gullible when it comes to quoting people, and their credulous coverage of Biden's decline is just bizarre in how much stock it puts in Dem's word for things. But I guess that's what the Washington Post has been reduced to these days. Read Original Sin by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson instead.

Not as in-depth as post 2016 campaign books

seemed to be too high-level, rushed through the campaign, not critical enough of kamala campaign - not specific enpugh about why each side did what they did.

this is empty calories.

I did not like the narration at all.

There are much better books out there regarding the campaign. I just can't recommend this one

Same old TDS.

I wish I would have researched the authors more thoroughly before downloading. This is full of the same old, well rehearsed narrative the left has been obsessed with since 2016.. They tell a fictional story as if its factual. All designed to sell an agenda and convince a naive reader that Harris was a viable candidate. Of course they paint the president as being a pearl clutching newcomer and repeat all the wild fantasies about the law fare being legitimate. They truly have no idea why Harris got soundly rejected.
The authors have spent too much time in the bubble. A trip around the block away from the echo chamber would do them all some good. Until the left figures out they need a serious candidate they will continue to marvel at how many national elections they will ill lose.Hopefully AOC will be their next nominee for the presidency and this same club can be shocked at how badly she loses.
Written by out of touch children, a total wasted of time.

The Trump bashing continues

This was so clearly a negative portrayal of President Trump. Never bothering to discuss how Kamala Harris could not articulate what her viewpoints were. There was more Trump bashing than anything throughout the entire book.

Waste of time - don’t bother.

If you followed the election of 2024 you already know everything in this book. There’s no insight, no analysis, no depth to this report.
The authors take swipes at Trump and blame the Harris disaster on “poor organization of her campaign” yet without comment on her inept and poor performance as a candidate. They report what we already know but give no reason or meaningful analysis of it.
Biden’s stubbornness and his refusal to see himself as he really is was outlined but without commentary or criticism ~ and IMO that is deserved and should be stated.
Overall ~ the book is boring and unsatisfactory and pointless.