How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution

by Joel Pollak, Larry Schweikart

Overview

From the moment Donald Trump announced his candidacy for the White House until very late on Election Night 2016, media and pollsters kept insisting Trump wouldn't—couldn't—be president.

But for Larry Schweikart-one of a ragtag group of amateur politicos called "the Deplorables" who had been publishing shockingly accurate polls and predictions-and Joel Pollak-a Breitbart News senior editor following Trump on the campaign trail-Trump's win was a near certainty. Schweikart and Pollak watched the Trump campaign build a powerful coalition between working Americans from both parties; they saw the momentum that the mainstream media and pollsters completely missed; and now, in How Trump Won, they tell the whole incredible story: from the early poll predictions of "the Deplorables" to the campaign trail to Election Night.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781621573951
Publisher:	Skyhorse Publishing
Publication date:	02/27/2017
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Joel B. Pollak is a veteran reporter, Harvard-trained lawyer, author of numerous books including See No Evil: 19 Hard Truths the Left Can't Handle, and senior editor-at-large at Breitbart News.

Larry Schweikart is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of popular and scholarly works including A Patriot's History of the United States and The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents Part 1: From Washington to Taft. He recently retired from the University of Dayton as a professor of history.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

Cold Open On the Campaign Trail: Las Vegas xiii

Chapter 1 The Most Astounding Election in American History 1

Chapter 2 On the Campaign Trail: Washington to North Carolina to New York 15

Chapter 3 How We "Renegade Deplorables" Saw Trump Could Win- Back in the Summer of 2015 33

Chapter 4 On the Campaign Trail: Ohio, New Hampshire, Nevada, Colorado, and New Mexico 57

Chapter 5 The Wild Ride: Primary Season 2015 81

Chapter 6 On the Campaign Trail: Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Florida 103

Chapter 7 "When Did You Become a Republican?" From the Birth of the Parties to Trump's Primary Victories 127

Chapter 8 On the Campaign Trail: From Florida to North Carolina and New Hampshire (Again) 155

Chapter 9 The Trump Revolution 169

Chapter 10 On the Campaign Trail: From Seven-State Sunday to Election Day 209

Epilogue 241

Acknowledgments 249

Notes 251

Index 281