JOE CONCHA: 'The Greatest Comeback Ever.' How Trump won the White House all over again

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I was about to appear on "The Big Weekend Show" that hot Saturday afternoon on July 13, 2024, and was watching all of this unfold from the Studio M Green Room at Fox News headquarters in New York. 

After what was about a minute, in what felt like hours, I watched as Trump rose to his feet. At that moment, almost anyone, including myself, would have kept their head down and let the Secret Service rush them to the closest vehicle to get the hell out of there. 

Trump did the opposite. 

"Fight! Fight! Fight!" he declared defiantly with blood on his face, the result of being struck in the ear by a bullet. 

"I think he just won the election," I said to no one in particular in the Green Room. 

From there, Harris rode a wave of slobbering press through August. At one point, according to the Media Research Center, ABC News did 100 straight "news" stories on her campaign where every single one was positive. 

The network also hosted the one and only debate between Trump and Harris, which ended up being a textbook example of overwhelming bias and dishonesty. ABC's news division is run by Dana Walden, who is not only best friends with Harris, she even set the former vice president up with her current husband, Doug Emhoff. 

JD Vance wiped the floor with Walz that night, who literally looked like a deer in the headlines throughout the debate. It was Trump and Vance who appeared to be normal, all while Harris and Walz looked and sounded, well... weird. 

Trump would go on to win every swing state, with 89% of counties in the U.S. going more red than blue. He also won the popular vote. Republicans took back the Senate and held the House. The greatest comeback ever was complete. 

In the end, Harris' campaign blew through $1.5 billion in cash in the span of under 100 days and had nothing to show for it. Democrats were (and still are) rudderless and devastated. 

"Why will people buy your book if they know how it ends?" my 9-year-old asked me recently. It was a good question. And this is what I told her: 

"We also know how "Titanic" ends, yet it made more than $1 billion at the box office in the 90s. Everybody went to go see it because, in my case, I wanted to know the story behind the hows and the whys." 

The same thing applies here. In my new book, those "hows" and "whys" include: 

- How did the Secret Service still allow Trump to go out on stage when they knew there was an active threat?

- How was no one fired by the Biden administration after trump was almost killed?

- Why didn't anyone in the Secret Service check the perimeter?

- Why did Harris decide not to join Joe Rogan on his insanely popular podcast - while Trump did for nearly 4 hours?

- Why did she choose Tim Walz as her running mate? 

We explore all of these questions in "The Greatest Comeback Ever." And we have lots of fun in the process. I hope you enjoy the book!