She insisted that at his company, Donald Trump is “color blind and gender neutral”.
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Ivanka Trump saluted her father’s personal attributes – his “fairness”, his “kindness”, his “generosity” and his “compassion”.
From left, daughter-in-law Lara Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, and Tiffany Trump listen as Eric Trump addresses those in attendance Wednesday evening during the third day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
After a week long of anticipation, Ivanka Trump stepped out to a roaring crowd in a almost full Quicken Loans Arena to set the table for her father’s impending speech in which he would formally accept the Republican Party’s presidential nomination. She asserted that he had more female executives than male at his companies and that women are paid equally as their male counterparts at his firms. “I think she could actually help her father and her father’s operation when it comes to outreach to women because I think there’s a lot of Republican women that identify with some of the balances with family versus professional”, she said.
The glamorous businesswoman and daughter of the Republican nominee has been a constant presence in her father’s campaign. She was also tasked with illuminating the kinder and gentler side of her father and talking up his commitment to women’s issues – a bid to counteract key tenets of the platform of Donald Trump’s Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton.
“I remember him telling me when I was a little girl, ‘Ivanka, if you’re going to be thinking anyway, you might as well be thinking big, ‘ ” she said at that announcement last June.
She is thought to be one of her father’s most influential advisers, a person who can persuade him to hire or fire someone. “I think she’s done very, very well”. Over the phone, she read me some passages from Mrs. Obama’s speech as examples. ABC News reported that she was a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority at Penn, and graduated this year alongside Vice President Joe Biden’s granddaughter, Naomi.
Then he and his wife sat next to Ivanka Trump at a dinner in Park City, Utah.
Ivanka Trump spends far less time on the campaign trail than her brothers and her Twitter feed is rarely political, instead focusing on her clothing line and the family business.
“Whatever he does, he gives his all, and does it well”, she said.
However, sources close to Ivanka and Chelsea told Politico that the pair have made a decision not to appear in public together during what is expected to be a grueling campaign.
On Thursday night, Ivanka took the stage to introduce her father, saying that he “sacrificed greatly” to enter the world of politics as an “outsider”. “More than party affiliation, I vote right based on what I believe is right for my family and for my country”.
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Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner on March 26 in New York City.
