"2024" with Josh Dawsey and Tyler Pager

On Wednesday, July 23, at 6 p.m. the Clinton School of Public Service will welcome Josh Dawsey of the Wall Street Journal and Tyler Pager of The New York Times, authors of "2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America."

Drawing on extraordinary access to the Trump, Biden, and Harris teams, "2024" takes readers beyond the speeches, rallies, and debates to reveal the innermost workings of the Republican and Democratic presidential campaigns.

This conversation will be moderated by Clinton School Dean Emeritus James L. "Skip" Rutherford III.

In "2024," Dawsey and Pager chart how Trump stifled the rise of Republican opponents, including Ron DeSantis, and how his campaign, led by Susie Wiles, landed on a winning strategy.

They reveal in unrivaled detail how Joe Biden and his team brushed off concerns about his age, ignored polling numbers, and held off the next generation of eager Democratic hopefuls.

Josh Dawsey is an investigative reporter focused on politics at The Wall Street Journal. He most recently worked as a political enterprise and investigations reporter for The Washington Post. He joined the Post in 2017 and covered the White House from 2017 to 2021. He was part of the team of journalists that won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for the newspaper’s coverage of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and a team that won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for coverage of the role of the AR-15 in American life. He is also a two-time recipient of the White House Correspondents Association award for news reporting and a lecturer at the Allbritton Journalism Institute. Josh is a proud graduate of the University of South Carolina and the enthusiastic owner of a rambunctious rescue dog named Pepper.

Tyler Pager is a White House correspondent at The New York Times. He previously covered the White House at The Washington Post, where he won the 2022 Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency. He graduated as the valedictorian from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and with distinction from the University of Oxford, where he earned a master’s degree in comparative social policy. He lives in Washington, D.C.

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