Her restrained style, natural elegance, upper-crust diction and media savvy all qualify her as “classy” by any definition, not just the ostentatious grotesquery of gold-plated sinks in private jets draped with supermodels implied when her father utters the word. And Donald Trump has never left any doubt over how he feels about her, regularly lavishing praise on her at campaign events – calling her “our great Ivanka” and “famous Ivanka” from the podium.
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Ivanka stayed out of the public fray during the campaign as anti-Semitic trolls went after Jewish journalists who were seen as attacking her father, and as he tweeted what was widely assumed to be a Jewish star in a denunciation of Clinton.
Eric Trump said Ivanka’s speech brings a different perspective than from the sons of the family, as she is able to highlight more of the doting father-daughter relationship. “He recognizes real knowledge and skill when he finds it”, she said.
“(He would) nearly undermine my thought process about coming into the family business, because he wanted to make sure that I knew that it wasn’t an expectation of his”, she told Borger.
“So, it’s incredible for me, as a daughter, to see how passionate people are about this election cycle, and it’s just been great”, she said. Trump, she said, “will focus on making quality child care affordable and accessible for all”.
The Internet had mixed reactions to her appearance (though there was consensus on the fact that she looked like Vanessa Bayer’s SNL impression of Miley Cyrus) but before you draw any conclusions, here are five things you should know about the other Trump daughter.
At a millennial town hall in Cleveland, a large group of young Republicans agreed that Ivanka is their favorite member of the Trump family.
For all the thousands of words Donald Trump spoke last night, none of them were about child care and equal pay, the issues his daughter had just claimed he cared so much about.
The mother of three campaigned for her father into the final weeks of her third pregnancy and a week after the birth of her child was introducing her father on a platform in the white, blue-collar enclave of Bethpage, New York. “He is color blind and gender neutral”.
“I love children”, he responded at the time. “I think she’s one of his best assets”.
In doing so, she showed us all that she’s not only smart, she’s savvier than you think.
Trump got the biggest cheers when he took Clinton’s “I’m with her” tagline and made it his own – “I’m with you”. “At our family’s company, there are more female than male executives”.
A view shared by some outside the family, considered such a strong asset that her name even came up during the vice presidential search.
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