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President-elect Trump is hosting a group of Republican governors for dinner at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Fla., Thursday evening.
The meeting comes a week and a half before the former and future president is inaugurated on January 20 and takes over the White House.
The meeting gives Trump a chance to talk to GOP governors who will likely play an integral role in carrying out Trump’s agenda in his second administration, including his push for mass deportation of immigrants with criminal records.
Among those attending the dinner are governors Ron DeSantis of Florida, Brian Kemp of Georgia, Glenn Youngkin of Virginia and Kim Reynolds of Iowa, Fox News confirmed.
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President-elect Trump hosts GOP governors at his Mar-a-Lago resort. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
DeSantis, a one-time Trump ally who clashed with the former president in 2023 and early last year during a contentious race for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, somewhat mended relations with the former president after of the primary season.
DeSantis endorsed Trump and helped raise money for the Republican candidate’s general election campaign.
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis dines with President-elect Trump at Mar-a-Lago before Trump takes office on January 20. (Florida Governor’s Office)
Reynolds, the two-term conservative governor, drew Trump’s ire during the presidential primaries by endorsing DeSantis and serving as his primary surrogate during the Iowa caucuses.
“Excited to meet with President @realDonaldTrump tonight at Mar-a-Lago,” Reynolds wrote in a social media post. “I’m ready to help enact his agenda to make America safe, prosperous and great again!”
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin is one of the Republican governors dining with Trump at Mar-a-Lago. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
Youngkin, who mulled a run for the White House in 2024 before deciding against it, teamed up with Trump a couple of times during the general election campaign.
Kemp, who took over as chairman of the Republican Governors Association in November, was heavily criticized by Trump after he refused to help Trump overturn his razor-thin defeat to President Biden in Georgia in the election of 2020. And Trump urged, then backed, a 2022 GOP gubernatorial primary challenge against Kemp by former Sen. David Purdue. But the former president toned down his criticism of the governor after Kemp crushed Perdue to easily win re-nomination on his way to re-election.
The two politicians appeared to patch up their differences in recent months, as Kemp endorsed Trump in the general election.
Politico was the first to report on Trump’s dinner with the governors.
