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Where’s Ivanka?

October 30, 2024 at 6:40 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

New York Times: “So it is in her father’s fiercest and potentially final campaign that Ms. Trump — his oldest daughter, one of his former top aides and perhaps his closest family member — has become a nearly silent observer, with seemingly no intention of boosting his candidacy in any public way.”

“That decision to separate herself from her father’s politics comes as Mr. Trump has faced the prospect of four separate criminal trials, including one in her — and his — former home of Manhattan, where he was convicted of 34 felonies in late May, and one in Washington, in connection with the Capitol riots of Jan. 6, 2021. One of Ms. Trump’s most prominent appearances during the 2024 race has been at Mr. Trump’s civil fraud case last fall, when she testified that she wasn’t ‘privy’ to her father’s finances.”

“Ms. Trump, 42, declined to be interviewed, asking instead that Mr. Kushner speak for her and her family. And when asked the chances that she might rejoin the campaign fray in the final stretch of the race, Mr. Kushner was blunt.”

Said Kushner: “Zero.”

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goddard-bw-snapshotTaegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.

Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.

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Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.

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