Ivanka Trump’s political hiatus appears to be over.
The businesswoman and former White House adviser is back in the spotlight after choosing the beach over the ballot box during her father Donald Trump’s ugly exit from the White House following his election defeat and the January 6 attack on the Capitol.
At the time, Ivanka said she wanted to leave politics to focus on her children and entrepreneurial pursuits, lamenting that she was proud of what she’d accomplished and had “given it all” in Washington.
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump watch a tennis match at the Miami Open in April.
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She and her husband, Jared Kushner, moved to Florida with their three young children shortly after Trump left the White House, and have since spent the time vacationing, doing charity work, and rekindling old friendships. people The magazine reported last year.
“She basically wants a new life to make up for what she lost during her four years in Washington with her father,” a source in Ivanka’s social circle told the magazine. “She misses her active social life and her group of friends.”
But with her father’s path to a second term looking increasingly bright following a shaky performance at last month’s debate with President Joe Biden, Ivanka is slowly returning to the political stage. She is scheduled to attend the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee next week, where she will appear in a personal capacity in support of her father, according to a person familiar with the matter. Daily Mail.
Kushner, Trump and their families attended a baseball game in New York later in 2023.
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Her decision to attend as a member of the public, rather than as a delegate or fundraiser, is in contrast to her role at the 2020 convention, where she headlined and introduced her father on stage.
While she has not yet played a prominent role in her father’s campaign, she appeared on the right-leaning Rex Friedman Podcast last week in her first major interview of the election cycle and for the first time commented on her father’s hush money trial in Manhattan.
She said it was “painful” to see the case end, adding that she still fully supported her father.
Ivanka Trump attended an NBA playoff game in Miami last April.
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She also said she sought to take a more active role during Trump’s first term because he was a political novice and needed a trusted group of advisers at his side.
“My father had never spent the night in Washington, D.C., before staying at the White House,” she says, “and I couldn’t imagine myself at 70 or 80 being comfortable saying no.”
Ivanka, who frequently posts photos from a variety of vacations to her 7.5 million Instagram followers, told Fridman that politics is a “pretty dark world that’s at odds with the life I want for myself and my family,” but time will tell if she’ll stick to sunbathing over political strategy.
