The 2024 presidential election is, literally, years and years away — buta recent poll of Republican votersshows some of them are partial to keeping a Trump or Trump ally in the White House.
Neither beat Vice PresidentMike Pence, however: Pence got 40 percent in the poll of about 1,800 Republican or Republican-leaning voters, compared with 29 percent for Don Jr. and 16 percent for Ivanka.
Nikki Haley, a former governor of South Carolina and U.N. ambassador, came in third with 25 percent.
Don Jr., 42, is PresidentDonald Trump‘s oldest son and one of his most vocal surrogates and defenders, making numerous campaign appearances on behalf of his father and mimicking his aggressive social media style.
He’s said he’s certainly interested in the idea of running for office one day,tellingBloombergin March, “My father decided to get into politics at 68. … I’ve got plenty of time.”
Last year he publishedTriggered, which was part memoir, part polemic and part defense of his dad.
“I never want to rule it out,” he said in March. “I definitely enjoy the fight. I definitely like being out there and I love being able to see the impact and the difference that it makes on these people’s lives that I get to see all over the country.”
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Meanwhile, the president (who isabout to go on trialin the Senate after being impeachmed)has arguedIvanka, 38, would “be very, very hard to beat” if she decided to run.
Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury, a headline-grabbing tell-all from inside the West Wing, reported in 2018 that Ivanka has discussed it, though a profile of her inThe Atlanticin April noted “Ivanka has never talked with her friends about running for office, and the president said she has never expressed any interest about that to him.”
The White House, in turn, regularly boasts of her economic accomplishments in broad terms.
In September,The Atlanticpublisheda lengthy account of the Trump family’s rise, political aspirations and, allegedly, the infighting between Ivanka and Don Jr., including suspicions of planted stories about the other.
“The idea that … a reporter atThe Atlantic[has] any factual reads on what goes on within the Trump family is completely asinine,” Ivanka’s spokeswoman, Jessica Ditto, previously told PEOPLE.
Ditto also contended thatThe Atlanticarticle was more smoke than fire: “All of this is false and a flimsy single anonymous source will not succeed at creating a rift in the family.”
source: people.com
