On Thursday, Ivanka Trump said her father “will fight for equal pay for equal work”.
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She once described her father to a reporter from Fortune magazine as someone who is very candid. “So, you know, he wasn’t always physically present but he was always available”.
It’s hard to imagine that anyone listening to Ivanka – including many Trump skeptics, especially women – could fail to take her compelling message to heart.
This is perhaps more typically a Democratic talking point, but as she noted at the beginning of her speech: “Like many of my fellow millennials, I do not consider myself categorically Republican or Democrat”. “So I’m trying to take that advice”.
Donald Trump’s youngest daughter emphasized in a speech what he means to her as a parent, calling him an “encourager” and said that his example motivates her to be better. “And I’m not sure I totally deserve it”, Trump, the Republican presidential nominee said during his acceptance speech.
It’s a prominent role that the mother of three has been playing since Day 1 of the Trump campaign.
She has campaigned alongside her father and stepped out on her own on the campaign trail, bringing testimonials and personal anecdotes.
With her brothers Donald and Eric, she is thought to have been instrumental in persuading her father to pick conservative Indiana Governor Mike Pence as vice president in a bid to unite the party. “He is not politically correct”.
“He is not gender specific in his criticism of people and people that he doesn’t particularly like or people he likes that he thinks are wrong on a particular issue”, Ivanka told CNN’s Poppy Harlow when faced question over his past treatment of women.
Married to multi-millionaire real estate developer and publisher Jared Kushner, for whom she converted to Judaism, the couple are fixtures on the society circuit but also known to like the quiet life at home. “I wouldn’t be the person I am today, I wouldn’t be a high level exec in his organization if he felt that way”.
“This is pretty novel, other than her father trying to sell Trump Steaks himself in his prior television appearance”, said Robert Kelner, a partner at the law firm Covington & Burling.
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She was the fourth of Trump’s children to speak at the RNC. “She comes off as being intelligent, a smart businesswoman, and someone who’s more informed than her father”, Reid said.
