Amie Parnes, Co-author of Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House 4-23-2025

It was the election America dreaded, a rematch between the two oldest men to serve as president. But somewhere along the way, the 2024 battle for the White House became the most jaw-dropping, heart-pounding, head-turning contest in American history. 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. Amie Parnes is a senior politicial correspondent covering national politics at The Hill and co- author of FIght.  She joined Mike Pomp on the Morning Information Center to talk about the latest book.