The essay below is adapted from Jonathan Karl’s forthcoming book, Tired of Winning. Disclosure: Declan Garvey, The Dispatch’s executive editor, served as a researcher for the book.
After two years of desperately working to undo the results of the last election—and pursuing preposterous schemes to eject the current president and get back into the White House—Donald Trump looked at the 2022 midterms as the moment he would complete his political comeback the old‐fashioned way: leading his party to victory in a new election.
Jonathan Karl is the chief Washington correspondent for ABC News and co-anchor of This Week. He is a former president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, and the author of several books, including Front Row at the Trump Show, Betrayal, and Tired of Winning.
