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The 2024 Election Post-Mortem: How Trump Beat the Odds

The 2024 Election Post-Mortem: How Trump Beat the Odds

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Despite the chaos of January 6th, 34 felony convictions, and his
party’s underperformance in the 2022 midterms, Donald J. Trump is
once again president. How did he defy political gravity to
win again? Why did former President Joe Biden run despite
overwhelming evidence that voters didn’t want him to? Was there a
coverup to conceal his decline, as Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s
book, “Original Sin” alleges? Why did former Vice President Harris
run such a cautious campaign and refuse to distance herself from
Biden? And was she doomed by Biden’s late withdrawal, or did her
own mistakes cost her the election? As America enters its 250th
year and a new political era, Kara speaks with the authors of 2024:
How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America to
answer these questions and understand how we got here. The trio
breaks down how Trump beat back his Republican primary opponents,
the Biden campaign’s fatal missteps, the Harris campaign’s stifling
paralysis, and why Trump is now governing more like a king than a
president. Isaac Arnsdorf is a senior White House reporter
for The Washington Post. His reporting on the first Trump
assasination attempt was essential to the Posts’s 2025 Pulitzer
Prize for Breaking News, and he’s the author of "Finish What
We Started," about the MAGA movement post January 6th. Josh Dawsey
is a political investigations and enterprise reporter for The Wall
Street Journal. Josh was part of teams at The Washington Post that
won the Pulitzer Prize in 2022 for coverage of Jan. 6 and in 2024
for coverage of the role of the AR-15 in American life. And Tyler
Pager is a White House correspondent for The New York Times. In
2022, he won the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished
Reporting on the Presidency. Questions? Comments? Email us at
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