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Frankly, We Did Win This Election
- The Inside Story of How Trump Lost
- Narrated by: Eric Pollins
- Length: 17 hrs and 6 mins
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Summary
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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- Kevin M. Corrigan
- 02-08-21
The best yet on the Trump years
Superb narration...and a riveting listen...disappointed when it end..really enjoyable..can thoroughly recommend this great book...if I hadn't lived through it...I'd think it fiction!
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- Kim Slade
- 28-07-21
Nor quite what I expected - but I still enjoyed.
I enjoyed the book, the voice is a little bit mechanical, but not enough to be annoying.
I expected the book to focus more on the final stage of the election, and pull apart some of the arguments made by the Trump team, however it's more about the full election campaign - with throwbacks to various controversies during the entire term, and I wasn't unhappy with what was delivered.
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- vegasbird
- 30-08-21
ok. Dull in places.
I've listened to several books on Trump and the 2020 election and whilst I did find this one interesting, there were some chapters I found a little tedious. I've dipped in and out of it whereas others, such as Disloyal by Michael Cohen, I couldn't switch off.
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- Rui Ribeiro
- 02-08-21
Interesting but a bit disappointing
The author narrates in an insightful and informed view of relevant events in the course of the Trump preparation for the 2020 US presidential election. It is a well narrated description, but I found it to lack a bit of punch. Maybe I was just too well informed, since I accompanied the US political situation rather closely, but it was hard to find really new details on the events that led to the election, Trump's refusal of the election results, leading to the 6th January attempt to stop Congress from validating the results.
I don't think the book does justice to the subtitle - "inside story how Trump lost". Problems in the campaign are described, even leading to the replacement of Brad Parscale, as there are light references to specific issues with the management of the Covid pandemic, but it is more in a description of events format than a slightly more analytical manner. So readers will have to draw their own conclusions on how Trump lost.
Still, being a WSJ reporter, the author had easy access to key Trump associates and Trump campaign staff. The tidbits of information acquired through these circles are well orgazined into an entertaining narration, thus reading the book won't be time wasted,
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- This Guy Vrz
- 09-09-21
It's the bits in-between the news
I liked this for the bits between the news and also how it links the news of the time. Goodness knows what Trump could've achieved with a bit more competence himself and around him. He could've truly changed the trajectory of America and the World but it also shows he probably doesn't get there had he not been himself. An amazing character in history to have witnessed.
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- A. Dailly
- 05-09-21
A very interesting story
A wonderfully interesting behind the scenes account of the 2020 election. Couldn’t stop listing to it. Highly recommended
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- Anonymous User
- 21-08-21
Weakest of the recent titles on 2020 US Presidential Election and Trump
Very ‘Meh’ at times and lacking substance.
Far too often the author allows the narrative to excuse the inexcusable. Goes out of his way to minimise or just ignore criticism of Trump and many of the people around him.
His choices are a bit strange in parts of this book. Makes a big deal of the various personal interactions he has had with Trump but spends the bare minimum time dissecting the insurrection on Jan 6th. In an audiobook that is more than 17 hours it only gets about 10 to 15 minutes - far, far less than a subject of that significance deserves.
His device of inserting some of Trump’s fans as a narrative aid to the book also doesn’t work.
Was also surprised how much he pulled his punches with regards to people like Pence, Kushner and most of the mainstream Republicans. Easy to tell where his sympathies lie.
I’ve read or listened to several of the recent books about the last year of the Trump White House/ US Presidential Election and despite the length this one comes across as the least substantial.
Overall a disappointment, save your money and get one of the other titles on this subject matter.
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- Mr. M. P. A. TAYLOR
- 31-08-21
Elegant Variation? No, thanks.
I found the intonation of the guy reading it a little strange and hence disconcerting. I found Bender's continual use of so-called "elegant variation" really quite annoying.
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