Jonathan Allen & Amie Parnes — Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House - with Ali Vitali

EPISODE · Jun 14, 2025 · 59 MIN

Jonathan Allen & Amie Parnes — Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House - with Ali Vitali

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The ride was so wild that it forced a sitting president to drop his re-election bid, a once and future president to survive felony convictions and a would-be assassin's bullet, and a vice president, unexpectedly thrust into the arena, to mount an unprecedented 107-day campaign to lead the free world.Fight is the backstage story of bloodsport politics in its rawest form--the clawing, backstabbing, and rabble-rousing that drove Donald Trump into the White House and Democrats into the wilderness. At every turn, the combatants went for the jugular, whether they were facing down rivals in the other party or their own.Bestselling authors Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes give readers their first graphic view of the characters, their motivations, and their innermost thoughts as they battled to claim the ultimate prize and define a political era. Based on real-time interviews with more than 150 insiders--from the Trump, Harris, and Biden inner circles, as well as party leaders and operatives--Fight delivers the vivid and stunning tale of an election unlike any other.In the end, Trump overcame voters' concerns about his personal flaws by tapping into a deep vein of dissatisfaction with the direction of the country. At the same time, Democrats struggled to connect with an electorate that felt gaslit by Biden's insistence that he had delivered economic prosperity--and his pledge to be a "bridge" president. He tore his party asunder, leaving destroyed personal relationships in his wake, as he clung to power. And when he gave it up, he kneecapped Harris by demanding unprecedented loyalty from her.As Allen and Parnes have done in the #1 New York Times bestseller Shattered and Lucky, they provide readers with a skeleton key to the rooms where it all happened, revealing a story more shocking than previously reported.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: https://politics-prose.com/book/9780063438644?ic_referral=rabqiaISFJoGBRnJr6y-k28xRVunIVA6WyXyH_sX4rcwM52cHCKbohn0mf8MUscvVinG63zKTV-OLSpifXEearGweq75C8SvirL7oVsAnFDXMeIyQO6dAI_Zr7ROy7bLhUPtmrUJonathan Allen is an award-winning political reporter at NBC News. He previously worked as the Washington bureau chief for Bloomberg News and as the White House bureau chief for Politico. He has coauthored three prior books with his writing partner, Amie Parnes, two of which, HRC and Shattered, became New York Times bestsellers.Amie Parnes is a senior political correspondent covering national politics at The Hill. She previously worked as a staff writer at Politico, and during the first Trump administration, she was a CNN political analyst. Amie has also appeared on CBS, NBC, and ABC and is the coauthor of three books with Jonathan Allen, including the New York Times bestsellers HRC and Shattered. Allen and Parnes are in conversation with Ali Vitali, the host of “Way Too Early” on MSNBC. Most recently, Ali covered Congress as a Capitol Hill Correspondent for NBC News. In 2022, Vitali authored Electable: Why America Hasn’t Put A Woman In the White House…Yet, a book detailing her experiences as a “Road Warrior” and investigating the double standards placed on female presidential candidates. She joined NBC News in 2012 and is a graduate of Tulane University. 

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