On Monday, Donald Trump Jr.is to be the featured guest at a Houston fundraiser, the first solo appearance at such an event by any of the Trump children.
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After a week in which Republicans largely focused on Clinton’s deficiencies rather than on Trump’s attributes and personal story, Ivanka Trump offered a new window into the Republican nominee. “What’s risky about Ivanka is that when she lies, you want to believe her”.
“Politicians talk about wage equality, but my father has made it a practice at his company throughout his entire career”, Ivanka added. She appealed to women.
“The only filter is himself”, Ivanka Trump said of her father’s speaking style.
“I’m with you”, Trump said.
“I think he will be a tremendous draw”, says Mica Mosbacher, who is raising money for Trump and knows his children personally from the social scene in New York City, where she resides part-time. “And I will fight for this, too, right alongside of him”. Not to mention the fact that the notion of equal pay for women and affordable childcare is completely AWOL from the Republican platform. She introduced the celebrity businessman in June 2015, moments before he took his famous escalator ride to announce his then-quixotic presidential campaign. He echoed Reagan and Nixon, and stoked a conservative indignation that coursed through the whole week in Cleveland. He also doubled down on some of his most controversial policies. She urged him to tone down his rhetoric on the divisive Muslim ban. Check. Building a border wall? “I never back down from challenges”. In lines that could have been spoken by Hillary Clinton, she pledged to make it her mission to help women in America. Her most detailed proposal was about the rights of women and mothers in the workplace. It’s an issue that she has championed outside the campaign, on her lifestyle website, on her social media pages and in a forthcoming book.
“My father not only has the strength and ability necessary to be the next president, but also the kindness and compassion that will enable him to be the leader that this country needs”, said the elegant blonde.
This goodwill for Ivanka may prove to be a powerful political weapon for her father.
Where her siblings had supplied mere adjectives – Donald Trump is “kind”, Donald Trump is “loving”, Donald Trump is “strong” – Ivanka revealed anecdotes, vignettes from a childhood unlike any other that attempted to demonstrate what Donald Trump is like behind gilded doors.
“These sites are also incredible melting pots, gathering people from all walks of life and uniting them to work towards a single mission”, she said. He recognizes real knowledge and skill when he finds it. “He is color blind and gender neutral”.
Presenting her father, who officially accepted his nomination as Republican candidate for United States president, she said: “I have loved and respected him my entire life and I could not be more proud tonight”. After all, as Time contributor Darlena Cunha points out, “Her father is Donald Trump, and his world has defined hers”.
That, of course, didn’t happen.
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“We’re at the cycle of the campaign when voters no longer are just trying to figure out who you are as a person – they are trying to envision you in the Oval Office and they want to know there’s someone there who shares their values”, David Gergen, who has advised four presidents, told CNN.
