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New book ‘2024’ offers inside look at twists and turns of the presidential election

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Journalists Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf are out with a new book unpacking the twists and turns of the 2024 presidential election. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with insiders, the book offers a revealing look at the circumstances that led to Trump’s return. Amna Nawaz spoke with the writers about “2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America.” PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Reporters Josh Dossi, Tyler Pager, and Isaac Arndstorff are out with a new book unpacking

0:06.1

the twists and turns of the 2024 presidential election.

0:10.1

Drawing on hundreds of interviews with insiders from the Trump, Biden, and Harris campaigns,

0:15.1

the book offers a revealing look at the extraordinary circumstances that led to Donald

0:19.7

Trump's return to the White House

0:21.3

and the Republican Party's reclamation of Congress. The book is called 2024, how Trump

0:27.7

retook the White House and the Democrats lost America, and I spoke with two of its co-authors

0:33.0

earlier today. Tyler and Isaac, welcome to The NewsHour. Thanks for being here. Thanks for having

0:38.2

us. Thanks so much. So kick us off here, Tyler. There's no shortage of books about the 2024

0:42.2

election, the rise of Donald Trump, the disarray among Democrats. This is the first book I read where

0:47.6

you're really layering all of these narratives and tying everything together, though. What was it

0:52.0

you wanted to achieve in writing this book?

0:56.0

Yeah, what we wanted readers to be able to understand is really how we got to where we are.

0:58.2

And you can't just start with that fateful debate last June.

1:01.4

You need to understand this two-year time period,

1:03.8

this remarkable moment in American history,

1:05.7

where we see Trump, we begin the book with the search at Mar-a-Lago

1:10.2

where the FBI is looking for those documents.

1:12.5

And we begin just before the 22 midterms where there's this lot of anxiety about Joe Biden running again.

1:17.7

So we wanted to take readers from those moments to where we are now and interspers that all in real time with Kamala Harris, of course, as well.

1:25.1

So there's a lot to unpack about this election.

1:27.6

And we hope readers will find that in the book.

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