The stomach-clenching suspense is unexpected.Īlong the way, she fills in the backstory of her from-birth training as a newshound and pulls the curtain back on the less-than-glamorous life of a press-corps journalist.įor those who still experience the election of 2016 as a raw, open wound, Tur’s intimate recounting may need to be read through splayed fingers. She slingshots back and forth between accounts from the long campaign (“May 23, 2015: 535 Days Until Election Day”) to the minute-by-minute ticking clock of Election Day itself. Tur takes an inspired approach to telling a story that we just finished living through - at least from our view in front of the stage. Plus, unlike most of the seasoned political reporters she found herself among, Tur, living as she was on a steady diet of packed and screaming Trump rallies across the U.S., never discounted the candidate’s chances of winning.
By not backing down in the face of personal attacks from her assigned candidate, or from the resulting death threats from his followers, she earned the respect of her colleagues, her own hashtag (#ImwithTur), and equal footing with her hero, Andrea Mitchell, as one of the indomitable “road warriors” of the campaign. Tur covered Trump longer than any other reporter, despite never having done political reportage before without wanting to, she became part of the story she was covering. In the rain in a donor’s back yard in Bedford, New Hampshire, she was startled to hear him call her out, mid-speech, with a telling complaint, “I mean, Katy hasn’t even looked up once at me.” Trump’s bizarre love-hate relationship with Tur reared its head at the first campaign event she covered, just two weeks after his entry into the race. “If you hate it, at least it will be short.”
Learning she was about to be tapped to follow him full-time, she called a veteran of earlier campaigns for advice. ”) Tur was a young NBC foreign correspondent living the life in London and spending romantic weekends in Paris, when a quick trip back to the States just happened to coincide with NBC’s decision to put someone on Donald Trump’s improbable (“ridiculous,” “hilarious”) presidential campaign. (“If I hadn’t decided to turn right at the corner just then, I never would have. In life, timing is everything, for good or ill.
Rather than “For Mom” or “For Pooky-Bear,” it’s “For the love of God.”
In Unbelievable, Katy Tur had me at her dedication.
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