From New York Times, I'm Michael Babarro. This is the Daily.

Today, as Donald Trump prepares to retake the White House, my colleagues Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman take us inside the final days of his campaign and inside his early planning for a second administration. It's Friday, November 8th.

So, Maggie and Jonathan, thank you for making time for us from sunny Palm Beach, Florida,

where I know you are not basking in the sun, but covering the early hours of President-elect Donald Trump.

I appreciate making time for us.

Thanks for having us.

Thank you for having us.

And you are there because you were piecing together

the final weeks and days of the Trump campaign

and now are piecing together Trump's plan for a second administration.

And those are the two sides of the episode

that we really want to cover with you

today. So let's start, Jonathan, with what you have learned about that last stretch of the

Trump campaign inside that operation leading up to its victory on Tuesday and how it may have differed from the way it looked

from the outside. Well, it was sort of an interesting situation because as reporters who cover

Trump, I've been covering him for nine years, Maggie's been covering him even longer than that,

but we basically spent all day, every day talking to people in his orbit.

And so it was this very interesting experience of watching a lot of coverage in the last week,

which showed a sort of a vibe shift, if you want.

Trump was out there doing these rallies where it was almost like this absurdist experiment to see how much self-harm

he could inflict and get away with. But there was also this other side to it, which was his campaign's

internal data was very consistent. Tony Fabrizio, his chief pollster, his private polling throughout

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