Posted on 11/16/2022 9:49:01 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Yowza. At one time, Team Trump pushed the idea that Ivanka Trump could become the next generation of a political dynasty. She served a critical role in her father’s term as both a key advisor and to some extent a calm and moderating PR presence in a chaotic White House.
Instead of following through on those efforts, the former First Daughter has abdicated her place in the succession, refusing to participate in the Donald Trump Restoration effort:
Former first daughter Ivanka Trump said late Tuesday that she would play no part in her father’s 2024 presidential campaign, one day after The Post reported the former commander-in-chief had pleaded with her to be on stage with him when he announced his run.
“I love my father very much. This time around, I am choosing to prioritize my young children and the private life we are creating as a family. I do not plan to be involved in politics,” Ivanka, 41, said in a statement.
“While I will always love and support my father, going forward I will do so outside the political arena,” she added. “I am grateful to have had the honor of serving the American people and I will always be proud of many of our administration’s accomplishments.”
The Post’s earlier report foreshadowed this development, even if it seemed a bit gossipy at the time. Sources told the Post that Trump had “cajoled” Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner — an official adviser to Trump in the White House — to join him on stage for last night’s announcement. As it turned out, Jared was in the audience but not on stage, and Ivanka didn’t show up at all.
Even a silent no-show would have eventually gotten some notice. The fact that Ivanka decided to issue a public statement at nearly the exact moment of her father’s campaign-launch announcement speaks volumes about the tension in the Trump empire over the new effort. Forget the megadonors for a moment — Ivanka’s declaration that she will only support her father “outside the political arena” is a mega-Trumpian anti-endorsement, and from the real inner circle: the Trump family and its heir apparent.
That certainly takes some shine off of Trump’s announcement, but it hurts him politically in other ways. Plenty of voters, even some of Trump’s earlier supporters, have gotten fatigued of the Trump drama over the last couple of years. Ivanka’s statement validates that in a way that a thousand polls and/or mainstream media stories wouldn’t. If even Ivanka’s tired of Trump’s campaigns, a whole lot of people will start considering their own fatigue legitimate.
Furthermore, Ivanka actually was a key political asset for Trump, helping smooth the roughest edges of his persona and working to salvage support from women, especially younger women. She may not have been poised for dynastic ascension, but Ivanka kept Trump from alienating female voters that he might have otherwise lost — or at least stemmed the exodus to some extent.
Some Trump supporters might not be too sad to see Ivanka go. They considered her more of a centrist, and perhaps even more distant than that. (Non-Trump conservatives had the same reservations, for that matter.) Still, Trump used that to good effect to woo disaffected centrists, blue-collar classic liberals, and others who saw Ivanka as a signal of pragmatism in the first campaign. No one in the family can fill that political role now, and no one outside the family would be close enough to have the credibility to pull it off.
With Ivanka out, so go the dynastic ambitions, if they ever really existed at all. And it leaves the impression that Team Trump has already thrown a wheel just getting off the line, which is not likely to help build much enthusiasm for the race.
Wow, Trump 2024 gets even better. Thank you Jesus.
it is more interesting that don jr. didn’t show up because he was supposedly hunting from some links that i was reading.
> “Remember those close to the President who where hunted and hounded when dining out in WA DC restaurants by Democratic Party activists? The Deep State hatred of Donald Trump is beyond bounds.”
That’s why a stern VP is needed for Trump, someone who will not hesitate to bypass the US Attorney General (McConnell approved) and order FBI field commanders to round up the Antifa types and throw them into the DC Gulag.
Erm, succession? What are we saying there?
So what about Jared? https://www.nowtheendbegins.com/abraham-accords-jared-kushner-becomes-middle-east-power-player-raising-billions-prince-of-the-covenant/
F-OFF and take your schmendrick husband with you.
What about her husband?
GOOD
take jared with you
I think Ivanka thought it would enhance her life to be involved the first time. Instead she got her shoe line cancelled, she became a national pariah on the left where she had most of her friends, she had to move to FLA from her home state of NYC, her father’s house in FLA was raided, the whole family has been sued/under criminal investigation and indictment and on and on. I don’t care for her and do not want her involved in the administration, but I completely sympathize with her desire to stay out of politics. Not everyone is cut out for it generally but I doubt anyone is cut out for what the Trump family has experienced. Honestly, she’s probably infer fir her life and her children’s lives abd is sending out the messafe: Were not involved. Leave us alone.
in fear of her life
What a biased article full of hearsay.
Not surprised all the NeverTrumpers and squishy conservatives hate her. Anyone that works to take down child and human trafficking gets in the crosshairs since it’s such a billion dollar industry. People make more money on it than selling illegal drugs and weapons.
I’m sure she’s had numerous threats on her life and her family that they are not going to talk about.
I don’t blame her for getting out of it for the sake of her family.
A lot of Hot Air in this opinion piece.
Kushner did do a good job.
The vote is not for two years.
Parties with pal Jaime Goerlick and Soros in the Hamptons
Daca loving
Syrian Muslim Invader lovin
Global warming Crackpots
Amnesty Backers
Hired Cohen the Leftist Trump hating Goldman Sachs Snake Spy who tried to sabotage everything
Professional Whore Kim K Let at Felon out of prison WH meeting
Spring WS Crook Father from fed prison
They just want back was into Learjet Leftist Hamptons party circuit and hang with Soros and Jaime and Ugly Chelsea Hubble again .
which idiot?
Trump isn’t conservative. He never was.
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