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The one essential bet that paid off: How Trump won and Harris lost

By Shane Goldmacher, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
New York Times·
19 mins to read

He made one essential bet: that his grievances would become the grievances of the MAGA movement, and then the GOP, and then more than half the country. It paid off.

Donald Trump’s chief pollster, Tony Fabrizio, had seen just about everything in his three races working for the controversy-stoking former President. But even he seemed to be bracing for bad news.

Trump had just debated Vice-President Kamala Harris, repeatedly taking her bait, wasting time litigating his crowd sizes and spreading

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