Trump’s top advisers explain why Trump picked Vance: ‘Torch-carrier of MAGA’

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Trump advisers Chris LaCivita and Tony Fabrizio said President-elect Donald Trump‘s selection of Vice President-elect J.D. Vance was a move for the future, in an interview that was the deepest dive inside the 2024 Trump campaign yet.

Fabrizio and LaCivita told Politico that Trump views Vance as the “torch-carrier” of the MAGA movement, and that he was a “deliberate” pick regardless of who the Democratic nominee for president was.

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