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In a unanimous decision, the court ordered Nixon to turn over his secret tape recordings, which doomed his presidency. Over the next two years, Nixon’s illegal conduct was gradually exposed by the news media, the Senate Watergate Committee, special prosecutors, a House impeachment investigation and finally by the Supreme Court. Nixon then ran against the senator George McGovern, a South Dakota Democrat widely viewed as the much weaker candidate, and won in an historic landslide with 61 per cent of the vote and carrying 49 states. With a covert budget of just $250,000, a team of undercover Nixon operatives derailed the presidential campaign of the senator Edmund Muskie, of Maine, the Democrats’ most electable candidate. He accomplished it through a massive campaign of political espionage, sabotage and disinformation that enabled him to literally determine who his opponent would be in the presidential election of 1972. The heart of Nixon’s criminality was his successful subversion of the electoral process - the most fundamental element of American democracy. "Frankly, we did win this election," he wrongly claimed (Photograph by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) Alongside Vice-President Mike Pence, his wife, Karen Pence, and first lady Melania Trump, Donald Trump addresses supporters in the East Room of the White House early on the morning of November 4, 2020.