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Frankly, We Did Win This Election

The Inside Story of How Trump Lost

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Frankly, We Did Win This Election

By: Michael C. Bender
Narrated by: Eric Pollins
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Michael C. Bender, senior White House reporter for the Wall Street Journal, presents a deeply reported account of the 2020 presidential campaign that details how Donald J. Trump became the first incumbent in three decades to lose reelection - and the only one whose defeat culminated in a violent insurrection.

Beginning with President Trump’s first impeachment and ending with his second, Frankly, We Did Win This Election chronicles the inside-the-room deliberations between Trump and his campaign team as they opened 2020 with a sleek political operation built to harness a surge of momentum from a bullish economy, a unified Republican Party, and a string of domestic and foreign policy successes - only to watch everything unravel when fortunes suddenly turned.

With first-rate sourcing cultivated from five years of covering Trump in the White House and both of his campaigns, Bender brings listeners inside the Oval Office, aboard Air Force One, and into the front row of the movement’s signature mega-rallies for the story of an epic election-year convergence of COVID, economic collapse, and civil rights upheaval - and an unorthodox president’s attempt to battle it all.

Fresh interviews with Trump, key campaign advisers, and senior administration officials are paired with an exclusive collection of internal campaign memos, emails, and text messages for scores of never-before-reported details about the campaign.

Frankly, We Did Win This Election is the inside story of how Trump lost and the definitive account of his final year in office that draws a straight line from the president’s repeated insistence that he would never lose to the deadly storming of the US Capitol that imperiled one of his most loyal lieutenants - his own vice president.

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same old same old. at least for the first half.

This is a good book. I really enjoyed it. when I started listening to it, for the first half of the book there was nothing new. it just confirmed much of what I had read in the Woodward books. but the second half was more about the closing days of the Trump Whitehorse and how utterly dysfunctional it was. I can't say there was any major revelations but I saw a little deeper under the covers. well worth reading

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Great read

Such amazing insight. Really worth the time, highly recommend if you are at all politically minded.

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