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Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio offered a preview of a post-Trump Republican Party on Tuesday at a gathering of many of those who in the coming years will be responsible for running it.
No one at the black-tie conservative gathering mentioned “2028,” though it was an unmistakable undercurrent as the two featured speakers, who both hope to carry the Trump legacy into the future, laid out their respective visions.
The affair was ostensibly a celebration of the brand of economic populism that’s taken hold in the Republican Party under President Donald Trump. But American Compass’ “New World Gala” at Washington’s National Building Museum was really a forum for laying the intellectual groundwork for a MAGA movement once the president leaves office.
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