Inside the factions jostling for Donald Trump's ear at Mar-a-Lago

Donald Trump's campaign team showed few signs of fracturing in the months ahead of Election Day. Insiders say there are different spheres of influence jockeying for influence at Mar-a-Lago as President-elect Donald Trump builds out his new administration Trump has been holed up at Mar-a-Lago since winning the Nov. 5 election Tucker Carlson, Cheryl Hines, Robert F Kennedy Jr., Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump Jr, Tulsi Gabbard at dinner last month during an America First Policy Institute gala 'He likes to line people up against each other and let them scrap it out and see what happens,' said one Washington-based expert. She is lined up to be Trump's White House chief of staff and has built a tight-knit team of loyalists around her Taylor Budowich and James Blair and seen with other key figures in the Trump campaign at a rally last year The Trumps Trump's daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner may have distanced themselves from the campaign this time around, but they still turned up on stage at the victory party in West Palm Beach in the early hours on November 6. Vance as his running mate Vance is seen as the MAGA heir to Trump and frontrunner for the 2028 Republican nomination The Attorneys Boris Epshteyn is Trump's top legal adviser and is one of the few figures to have survived in his inner circle since the 2016 campaign. He voiced opposition to Treasury secretary frontrunner Scott Bessent, a hedge fund manager, and pushed instead for financier Howard Lutnick, who is seen as more skeptical of tariffs, Trump's favorite tool of trade and diplomacy.