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Rapture at the New York Young Republican Club Gala

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The New York Young Republican Club’s gala on Saturday night was a black-tie, fur-swaddled celebration of the increasing, and liberal-panicking, likelihood of the Trump restoration, (GOP chaos be damned). Recently evicted-from-Congress club hatchling George Santos was not on hand, but New York’s Shawn McCreesh was — he even talked his way up to the VIP balcony, where he mingled with Representative Lauren Boebert, Andrew Giuliani, and assorted Ivanka look-alikes. As McCreesh found, all anybody seemed worried about was Trump not going far enough if he were reelected. And then the once and possibly future president took the stage …

—Carl Swanson, editor-at-large, New York 

Trump Reassures His Loyalists That He’ll Do Better Next Time At the New York Young Republican Club gala, there was rapture about the coming restoration — and how terrified that makes the “libs.”

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