A reported account of the 2024 U.S. presidential race hit shelves on 8 July. “2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America,” by journalists Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf, draws on roughly 350 interviews with figures from the Trump, Biden and Harris campaigns to chronicle the events that returned Donald Trump to the White House and left Democrats out of power. Among the book’s new disclosures are four confidential strategy memos sent to Kamala Harris’s campaign by Republican veteran Maria Comella in the final weeks of the race. Comella warned that Harris had failed to give swing voters a reason to support her, urged the Democrat to create “clear daylight” from Joe Biden on issues such as crime, border security and the economy, and pressed for appearances on mainstream podcasts including Joe Rogan and Bill Simmons. The advice was largely set aside, and Harris stayed publicly aligned with Biden, a decision the authors link to her eventual loss of every swing state. The volume also recounts miscues that shaped the race: Biden advisers encouraged an early nationally televised debate that backfired; former President Barack Obama privately questioned Biden’s viability months before Election Day; and Harris struggled to distance herself from the incumbent even after Biden withdrew. Internal deliberations over a running mate—narrowed to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro—are portrayed as another distraction that sapped campaign momentum. Early reviews from the New York Times, Kirkus and Vanity Fair describe the book as a thorough, often irreverent post-mortem that could become the definitive narrative of the 2024 contest.