United States: Ivanka Trump in her father's footsteps towards the White House?
SPOTLIGHT - The former "First daughter" would consider running for a Senate seat in Florida in November 2022. A first step towards the White House?
Will there be a Trump in the White House again? The former American president dreams of it. Since his defeat on November 7, he has not ruled out running for re-election in 2024, in case his maneuvers to denigrate the November election did not offer him that much desired second mandate.
On paper, he has the right. History even has a famous precedent: Grover Cleveland, elected in 1884, defeated four years later and final
ly re-elected in 1892. The Constitution limiting to two terms, consecutive or not, President Trump was therefore preparing, behind the scenes, a possible news application. In December, fundraising, as well as polls, also confirmed this hypothesis: 87% of Republicans said they were ready to vote again for him.
And then there was January 6: the riots on Capitol Hill, his speech calling on his supporters to "march" on Congress to challenge Joe Biden's certification, the gagging of his Twitter account, and ultimately a growing president. isolated among republicans. Then, in the wake, a second impeachment procedure for "incitement to insurrection" which currently compromises any desire for political reconquest.
So on January 20, before climbing the steps of Air Force One and joining Mar-a-Lago, the customary "I" gives way to an unusual "we": "We will come back one way or another. ". Sign that Patriarch Trump is considering handing over? Nothing is less sure.
Florida as a base?
Still, in Florida, where he can count on a solid base of sympathizers, Donald Trump is also surrounded by his clan. Tiffany Trump, the former president's fourth child, 27, has settled in South Beach. Donald Trump Jr. and his partner Kimberly Guilfoyle are reportedly looking for a place to settle north of Palm Beach.
And, according to the celebrity press, her daughter Ivanka and her son-in-law Jared Kushner have just purchased a beachfront plot of land on the ultra-chic and ultra-secure island of Indian Creek, off Miami, for over $ 30 million. All this therefore raises questions: what will the Trump-Kushner couple ("Jaranka"), who advised the American president for four years, do in the "Sunshine state"? Do they want to grow their popularity there?
Candidate for the Senate in 2022?
"Ivanka definitely has political ambitions, no doubt about it," said a source close to the clan to CNN. An argument between father and daughter, revealed by the Daily Mail, says a lot about the ambition of the 39-year-old heiress. Ivanka would have reproached the American president for refusing the nomination of Joe Biden, on the pretext that this decision does not “endanger” his “promising political career”. She even threatened to go there to "save her reputation".
Ivanka will finally be traveling on the presidential plane on January 20, heading to Florida. Florida, where the former "first daughter" would seriously consider running for one of the two senator's seats in the November 2022 poll, multiple media reports. But she wouldn't expect to stop there.
Ivanka first president?
In his book, Fire and Fury, published in 2018, journalist Michael Wolf ensured that Ivanka dreams of being the first woman at the head of the country. A deal has even been made with her husband Jared Kusher. "If in the future the opportunity arose, it would be the one to run for president," wrote the author. "The first woman president, Ivanka joked, wouldn't be Hillary Clinton, it would be Ivanka Trump."
A prospect that could well come closer just as Donald Trump's political future darkens. If he were to be prevented from claiming the presidency a second time, the Republican billionaire would nonetheless retain an important stranglehold on the party and its base. This would then put him in the advantageous position of the “maker of kings”, and in this case of “queen”, for 2024. From then on, his father's “favorite” could also become her in the eyes of the Americans.
