The MAGA wing of the Trump family takes center stage

Donald Trump will be surrounded by his most valued set of advisers and surrogates — members of his own family — when he accepts the Republican presidential nomination here Thursday, less than a week after surviving an assassination attempt.

MILWAUKEE — Former President Donald Trump will be surrounded by his most valued set of advisers and surrogates — members of his own family — when he formally accepts the Republican presidential nomination here Thursday, less than a week after having survived an assassination attempt.

The roles of those relatives have shifted over Trump's nine years in the political arena, with more recent changes reflecting a tighter adherence to the political, policy and personality preferences of his Make America Great Again base.

Trump's eldest daughter, Ivanka Trump, and her husband, Jared Kushner — criticized as symbols of nepotism run amok by the left and by Trump loyalists as too close to the establishment when they served as White House advisers — have kept their distance publicly since his 2020 defeat. Former first lady Melania Trump has been all but absent from her husband's third campaign for the Oval Office.

All three plan to be present at the Republican convention here Thursday, but it's a different troika — Donald Trump Jr., daughter-in-law Lara Trump and her husband, Eric Trump — that has emerged in this campaign as the most influential set inside the Trump family.

Their rise is evident in Lara Trump's appointment as a co-chair of the Republican National Committee this year and the sons' insistence, at the eleventh hour, that their father name Sen. JD Vance of Ohio as his running mate.

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