Why the 2024 Presidential Election Was the Wildest Election of Our Lifetimes, with Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes

This American President

Society & Culture, Education, History

4.6 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

A president in cognitive decline. A beleaguered Vice President. A party in shambles. An ex-president on the verge of the greatest political comeback in American history. And a lot of cat and dog memes. The 2024 presidential election featured all this, and more. In this episode, Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes take us behind the scenes in some of the biggest moments of America's craziest election.

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The United States,
0:09.0	The Most people have moved on from the 2024 election, but I haven't.
0:32.7	I was absolutely riveted by everything going on.
0:35.9	It was the wildest election I've ever lived through,
0:38.4	which is saying something because we've lived through 2000 and 2016 and 2020. This election,
0:46.1	2024, featured two presidents, a sitting president and an ex-president. And one of those
0:52.6	presidents, the sitting president, had a cognitive decline in full
0:56.9	display. There was a virtual party coup to remove him. The installation of his vice president as the
1:04.4	new nominee. We had an assassination attempt. And we had one of the most epic political comebacks ever, not to mention
1:13.0	all of the dog and cat memes. And during all of these events, a lot of people usually say,
1:20.7	oh, I just can't wait till it's over. I'm the complete opposite. I loved every moment,
1:26.1	living through actual history in the making. So when it
1:30.2	ended, I was very excited about the books that would come out. And I knew about the team of Jonathan
1:36.7	Allen and Amy Parns. I knew that they would be on top of this because they wrote bestselling
1:41.9	books on the 2016 and 2020 elections.
1:45.4	So I couldn't wait for them to write a book on this election.
1:49.5	And they did not disappoint.
1:52.3	They already have the book.
1:54.1	It's out there.
1:55.7	It's in bookstores.
1:57.7	So make sure you check it out.
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