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Coming from Vance, the phrase carried added weight. His political journey has been one of transformation. Once publicly critical of Trump — even drawing comparisons that placed him among history’s darkest figures — he has since become one of the former president’s most vocal defenders. That evolution has not gone unnoticed. To some, it reflects pragmatic alignment within a reshaped Republican Party. To others, it underscores how fully Trump’s political gravity has pulled former skeptics into orbit. Against that backdrop, a whispered promise of reckoning feels less incidental and more deliberate.