New book gives inside look at Trump, Biden, Harris 2024 campaigns: Eight key takeaways

Published July 8, 2025 5:57pm ET



2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America is the latest book narrating the events of last year’s presidential election, including how then-President Joe Biden stunned the country by dropping his campaign for reelection, and Democrats’ subsequent and resounding loss months later to President Donald Trump. 

The new book, released on Tuesday, is written through the lens of 350 interviews conducted by reporters Tyler Pager, Josh Dawsey, and Isaac Arnsdorf of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post, respectively. The authors painted Biden’s inner circle in a negative light, highlighting unease about his cognitive decline while accusing his closest allies of sidelining concerns from the public and the press. 

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