“She was out in California and really my relationship is with Tiffany”.
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The Trump offspring, who have also emerged as political advisers on everything from staffing to their father’s vice presidential pick, have proven to be sharp attack dogs as well. “And I don’t think anyone does, because she kind of keeps it to herself”.
“My father and our next president, Donald J. Trump”, Ivanka Trump said before her father walked on stage. Her primetime speech elicited repeated applause and much praise from delegates in the arena. In fact, her speech aligns her more with President Obama – who recently identified affordable child care as a top priority for propping up the nation’s stalling middle class-than with her father.
“He’s the single-most qualified person to serve as chief executive of an $18 trillion economy”, she said. “They made a real effort to ensure that we knew that they would always be there for us and accessible to us and it helped us through a hard time”. But ultimately it is unlikely that her efforts alone will be sufficient to overcome her father’s challenges with women voters.
That message is similar to one Donald Trump has been trying to send for a while: His campaign isn’t about party doctrine. I was hired to work the exact same job as my brother-in-law, and after talking to him discovered that I was being paid about $4 an hour less than him to do the exact same job.
“I have seen him fight for his family”, she continued, “I have seen him fight for his employees, I have seen him fight for his company, and now, I am seeing him fight for our country”. Her conversion, meanwhile, enables her father to respond to charges that his campaign is fomenting anti-Jewish sentiment by pointing to his Jewish daughter and grandchildren. “He is not politically correct. So they tried to mitigate the attention that that moment received”.
“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.
“She’s intelligent; she’s strong-willed; she has an entrepreneurial spirit”. Ted Cruz’s endorsement snub, telling CNN, “We don’t need it”. Yet it also makes her more relatable.
“In a family business you are all running toward a common goal”, Ivanka has said about the family business, which applies to the White Houe.
Trump, by his own admission – or his own boasting, depending on your read – is one of those men who did little in his own household, instead expecting his wives to take almost full responsibility for child care while he earned the money.
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. “But I don’t know her views on everything”. “I’ve never spoken in a stadium like this, but really, I just want to make sure I do a great job for him”.
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She added: “So even if I bomb, my father won’t hold it against me”.
