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How J.D. Vance won over Donald Trump

By Jonathan Swan & Maggie Haberman
New York Times·
17 mins to read

It started with a meeting at Mar-a-Lago more than three years ago. Later, Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk and other key allies made direct appeals on his behalf.

The meeting got off to a bad start.

J.D. Vance walked into Donald Trump’s office at Mar-a-Lago on a warm winter afternoon in February 2021. The former President had a thick stack of papers on his desk: printouts of Vance’s copious broadsides against Trump. Vance’s past criticisms had included an essay in one

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