Steve Contorno
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JD Vance embraces tricky role as Trump’s midterm messenger — and potential successor (opens the original)
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Dallas (CNN) â Behind closed doors on Thursday, Vice President JD Vance urged a room full of Republicans to sell voters on the administrationâs more popular achievements that he worried werenât always breaking through. One person, however, has proved particularly difficult to keep on message: President Donald Trump. Since joining Trumpâs ticket in 2024, Vance has taken on the role of disciplined translator for a president whose instinct-driven improvisational style enthralls his admirers
After a decade as GOP’s main character, Trump gets one more starring role at midterm convention (opens the original)
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Dallas (CNN) â For a decade, President Donald Trump has made himself his partyâs main character â a singular force around whom its rallies, conventions and political identity have revolved. Republicans are taking that devotion a step further this week, gathering in the Lone Star State at Trumpâs behest for an unprecedented midterm convention conceived by him and to celebrate him. Trump will appear both nights of the event and watch from a suite as the loyalty from party leaders and allie
How Republicans — and Trump — are grappling with the party’s future after he leaves the stage (opens the original)
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A picture of Donald Trump at a rally is seen in an elevator, ahead of the GOP Midterm Convention, at American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas, on Tuesday. President Donald Trump on stage in December 2025 in Washington, DC. Signage for different state delegates is seen ahead of the GOP Midterm Convention, at American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas, on Tuesday. Dallas (CNN) â For a decade, President Donald Trump has made himself his partyâs main character â a singular force around whom it
Without Charlie Kirk, Turning Point is building a future for his movement — and for JD Vance (opens the original)
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(CNN) â Charlie Kirk sat before a Salt Lake City audience of restaurateurs last September 10, dispensing business advice drawn from his own unlikely rise. The conservative activist argued that a company needed a deep connection to the founderâs âenergy and visionâ to endure, but he also warned that âseparating the brand from the founderâ was among the greatest challenges an entrepreneur could face. âWe have not done this successfully yet,â Kirk acknowledged of Turning Point USA,
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