1 What Really Happened in 2020 

2 Elect Republican Secretaries of State

3 Stop HR 1 

4 Donald Trump: One of Our Great Presidents

5 Donald and Me

6 A Kinder, Gentler Trump?

7 The Midterms and the White House

8 The Three Big Issues

9 The Unrecognizable America

10 It’s All About Race and Gender

11 The Inflation Nightmare

12 Free Speech Is Vanishing

13 Democrats Declare War on Small Businesses

14 China Takes Over: It’s Not Independence Day

15 Biden Wants to Take Your Assets

16 Packing the Country: Immigration and the Latino Vote

17 Decriminalize Crime

18 Dumbing Down Education

All is not lost. Thank God we live in a democracy with regular elections, and what liberty and democracy have lost in one cycle can be restored in the next.

It’s our last chance!

In past elections, we were always told that the stakes have never been higher. Pundits regularly warn us about the consequences of the other party winning. The other party will bring disaster. But the elections of 2022 and 2024 are different. The other party already won the election of 2020—sort of—and disaster is already upon us.

To win these next two elections, we must realize that there are new rules under which any electoral battle in the future will now be conducted. We must adjust to them and learn to win under them.

But before we turn ahead to the coming contests, let’s frankly and honestly answer the core question:

Did Donald Trump win or lose the election of 2020?

Would a fair vote count of only timely ballots cast by eligible voters award the election to Trump or to Biden?

The deliberate efforts of the Democratic machine politicians in swing states to conceal and obfuscate the truth has meant that we may never know the correct answers to either question. And the cowardice of the US Supreme Court provides us no help or clarification.

Filling this critical information gap are the various state-sponsored audits of the 2020 election, now under way in Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin. We hope that they will give us an accurate portrait of what happened in the 2020 election.

But one thing is clear: The voter turnout, on both sides, was overwhelming, vastly outpacing any in modern history. The turnout in 2020 exceeded that in 2016, just four years earlier, by almost 20 percent.

Americans reversed almost a century of low voter turnout.

It’s a whole new country that voted in 2020. From 2000 to 2020, voter turnout rose by 51 percent, while voting age population went up by only 21 percent.

Everything we knew—or thought we knew—about American politics is obsolete in this new era of massively higher turnout.

Did the Democrats win because of fraud? Was the election stolen?

It’s certainly true that many paper ballots were forged or cast in the names of voters who had died or moved away—or who simply did not exist. The absence of photo ID—because Democrats refused to require, or even permit it—guaranteed that. Particularly with ballots cast via drop boxes and serviced by Democratic Party workers, many Trump ballots doubtless were never tallied.

Much of the fraud involved real, active voters casting real ballots but doing so after the time deadlines specified by law.

Still, more were cast by eligible voters under the in-person pressure of a Democratic election worker standing in the doorway, compromising their right to a secret ballot.

We can and must change these laws and administrative procedures to stop post-election voting, drop boxes serviced by party workers, and ballot harvesting. We’ve got to require full signature verification, and above all, we must require photo identification to register and vote. We must demand that every mail-in ballot has the last four digits of the Social Security number correctly entered.

However, the likelihood is that, even had we done all that, we probably would still have lost the national popular vote. The Republican fortunes might have been rescued by carrying certain swing states to provide an electoral majority, even amid a popular win for the Democrats.

Were the elections in Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Georgia free from Democratic shenanigans, Trump probably would have won some, or all, of these states, likely enough to carry the Electoral College and re-elect him president.

But we must not let this likely fact obscure the equally evident reality that more people voted for Biden than for Trump, by a massive number. How often can we expect the geographic distribution of the vote to rescue us from oblivion? 

It is the essential premise of this book that we must examine why we lost the popular vote by such a margin, and focus on winning it in the future. We cannot, and should not, expect to stay in power by frustrating the will of the majority of the voters just because the Constitution says we can. Majority rule is still the bedrock principle of democracy.

Out of fifty-eight presidential elections, the popular vote winner lost in the Electoral College only five times: in 1824 (John Quincy Adams’s defeat of Andrew Jackson), 1876 (Rutherford B. Hayes’s defeat of Samuel Tilden), 1884 (Benjamin Harrison’s victory over Grover Cleveland), 2000 (Bush over Gore), and 2016 (Trump over Hillary). We cannot count on it happening every year.

We must not self-indulgently avoid the reality that the Democrats did a better job of getting their people to vote than we did. They won the turnout war, and with it, the election.

There are new rules that govern our politics. The Democrats have learned them—and in many cases, invented them. Republicans and conservatives have not.

And that is why we lost. As Shakespeare wrote in Julius Caesar, “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in our-selves, that we are underlings.”

And unless we learn the new rules and figure out how to beat the Democrats and the radical Left, we will lose again in 2022 and 2024.

If, indeed, we fail in those two contests, it won’t matter how future elections turn out. Our nation and our democratic process will have been so fatally and irretrievably undermined that redemption will be impossible.

This book is divided into three parts:

• Part I lays out what we must do to stop the elections of 2022 and 2024 from being stolen, to make sure that more legal, eligible voters cast ballots for Republicans, and that their votes are not offset by a torrent of illegal ballots.

• Part II explains why our candidate in 2024 will be, and must be, Donald J. Trump. Accept no substitutes. Only he can put together the coalition that generated 74 million votes in 2020. And we don’t want a bleached-out, kinder, nicer, gentler Donald Trump, either! We want and need the same Donald Trump who won in 2016, increased his vote share in 2020 by eleven million votes, and in between, was one of our truly great presidents.

• Part III examines our message. The Democrats are trying to transform America into a nation none of us will recognize. An economy dominated by inflation, where our savings, investments, pensions, 401(k)s, IRAs, and home values shrink each year as the dollar devalues. A country of porous borders and raging crime. They want to see a society as segregated by race as Mississippi or South Africa ever was, but this time with whites bearing the brunt of discrimination. A place where gender is a matter of opinion, and an accoutrement that can be changed as easily and whimsically as hair color. A nation dependent on China for its technology. A society where big tech, big media, and big brother tell us what to read and what to see. An unrecognizable land.

The Trump Revolution cannot succeed without Trump.

Will he run in 2024? You bet he will.

Will he be the GOP nominee? Absolutely.

Will he win the election? Yes.

But what if the Democrat (or the president) is not Biden at all, but Vice President Kamala Harris? Can we still win? Yes. How? You gotta read the book!

(By the way, Eileen and I wrote The New York Times bestselling book Armageddon: How Trump Can Defeat Hillary. It came out in the early summer of 2016, and we had completed it that spring. Our predictions came true. The white high-school-educated vote did turn out for Trump, and that made all the difference. Latinos did defect to Trump. Hillary was so mired in scandals of her own making that she tied herself in knots and could not articulate a message. So we know what we are talking about!)