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The inside story of the historic 2020 presidential election and Joe Biden’s harrowing ride to victory — from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Shattered, the definitive account of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign.
Almost no one thought Joe Biden could make it back to the White House — not Donald Trump, not the two dozen Democratic rivals who sought to take down a weak front-runner, not the mega-donors and key endorsers who feared he could not beat Bernie Sanders, not even Barack Obama.
The story of Biden’s cathartic victory in the 2020 election is the story of a Democratic Party at odds with itself — torn between the single-minded goal of removing Donald Trump and the push for a bold progressive agenda that threatened to alienate as many voters as it drew.
In Lucky, #1 New York Times bestselling authors Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes use their unparalleled access to key players inside both the Democratic and Republican campaigns to reveal how Biden’s nail-biting run for the presidency vexed his own party as much as it did Trump. Having premised his path on unlocking the Black vote in South Carolina, Biden nearly imploded before he got there — after a relentless string of misfires left him freefalling in polls and nearly broke.
Allen and Parnes brilliantly detail the remarkable series of chance events that saved him — from the botched Iowa caucus tally that concealed his poor result to the pandemic lockdown that kept him off the stump, where he was often at his worst.
More powerfully, Lucky unfolds the pitched struggle within Biden’s general election campaign to downplay the very issues that many Democrats believed would drive voters to the polls — especially in the wake of Trump’s response to nationwide protests following the murder of George Floyd.
Even Biden’s victory did not heal his party’s divisions; instead, it revealed a surprising, complicated portrait of American voters and shattered Democrats’ belief in the inevitability of a blue wave.
A thrilling masterpiece of political reporting, Lucky is essential reading for understanding one of the most consequential elections in American history — and the future that will come of it.
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