Hope Hicks and Donald Trump.
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Hope Hicks didn't plan on hanging out with President Trump on Air Force One last weekend. But with a little bit of convincing, White House staffers successfully pulled the ex-communications director to a Trump rally Sunday in Ohio.

They're hoping that same Trumpian vacuum will drag Hicks back in for the president's 2020 campaign, 10 Republicans and officials tell Politico.

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.