Chris Whipple Analyzes the Wldest Presidential Race Ever-2024

UNCHARTED: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History (Harper Influence)

 

Chris Whipple, the New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers and The Spymasters, now turns his sharp eye towards the historic 2024 presidential race, providing the definitive, insider account of the most dramatic and significant political showdown in modern American history..In minute-by-minute detail, UNCHARTED: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History  chronicles the unprecedented drama as it unfolded, documenting the true story of the Harris and Trump campaigns and the difficult, urgent decisions made in the back rooms of power. Alternating between the Biden/Harris/Walz and the Trump/Vance camps, Whipple draws on his unique access to exclusive sources on both sides, including Jen O'Malley Dillon, Susie Wiles and Ron Klain.

 

Some of the news revelations in UNCHARTED includes:

 *The details of Biden's disastrous debate prep session at Camp David. One source in UNCHARTED said the president was "out of it, disengaged and befuddled."

*Former Obama Chief of Staff Bill Daley's private efforts to get Biden to step aside and his conversations with Biden's chief of staff, Jeff Zients. Biden's first chief of staff, Ron Klain, accused Zients of enabling an "avoidable tragedy."

*What really caused Joe Biden to go blank during the debate.

*Inside a secret meeting between Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden at the White House residence on July 11, 2024.

*How Biden's inner circle convinced themselves that the president should run again despite his obvious cognitive decline.

*How the Biden White House strong-armed democrats from getting into a primary race against the president.

*What Joe Biden and his close aides Steve Riccetti and Mile Donilon talked about during that fateful July 2024 weekend at Biden's Delaware beach house.

* The specific thing that caused Joe Biden to feel Barack Obama betrayed him.

*How Harris and her aides secretly directed Democratic operatives to lay the groundwork for her nomination - even before Biden withdrew. Operatives looked at rules governing a possible swap at the top of the ticket and pressured prominent Democratic senators to call on Biden to step down.

*How Susie Wiles became Trump's most trusted adviser and how taking care of her alcoholic father helps her deal with the president.

* What Trump's campaign co-chairs, Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita, really think of the president.

*Why Harris failed to effectively answer Trump's infamous "trans" ad.

* Why Harris whiffed on a question during her appearance on "The View" about how her presidency would differ from Biden's.

*Why, despite their own internal polling showing otherwise, the Harris campaign boasted that it was winning.

*What Harris said to Trump during her concession phone call.

 

A disastrous debate, a would-be assassin's bullet, an electrifying eleventh hour candidate swap, dramatic and surprising VP selections, betrayals behind closed doors, charges of a stolen election, game-changing blunders-the history-making 2024 presidential election is a political saga of Shakespearean proportions. In minute-by-minute detail, esteemed White House historian and political analyst Chris Whipple chronicles the unprecedented drama as it unfolds, documenting the true story of the Harris and Trump campaigns and the difficult, urgent decisions made in the back rooms of power, with the future of American democracy at stake.

 

Alternating between the Biden/Harris/Walz and the Trump/Vance camps, Whipple tells the fly-on-the-wall story of campaign 2024, drawing on his unique access to exclusive sources on both sides, including conversations with members of the candidates' inner circles. Whipple goes behind the scenes of every headline-making moment to reveal how a post-debate intra-party rebellion forced Biden to step aside, how the nomination of Vice President Harris at a thrilling convention reshaped the race, how Harris rallied excited voters across generations and demographics, but ultimately could not overcome the underlying weaknesses of her campaign. Whipple also burrows inside Donald Trump's campaign to reveal startling new insights into how he overcame primary opponents and multiple prosecutions, rebranded his base to appeal to Gen Z voters, and forged powerful alliances with Silicon Valley CEOs like Elon Musk.

An intimate portrait of American politics on the edge, filled with previously untold stories, anecdotes, and insights, Uncharted is the authoritative account of this pivotal chapter in American politics. As he brings to life the most dramatic and important presidential campaign of the modern age and puts it into historical perspective, Whipple exposes how ambition, conviction, and resilience collide at the highest echelons of power, offering a deeper understanding of the forces that define a divided nation.