Ivanka Trump opts out of father’s 2024 campaign
In a Facebook post, Ivanka Trump said she was not “100 percent” ready to run for president “the next four years” after her father’s announcement Sunday that he is running for a second term next year.
She wrote in her post: “I have always said I would like to serve my country in a way that feels right for my family, for my state and for the country, and to that end, I have decided to be an all-volunteer candidate for the President’s Committee of Runners for America. I will be launching my campaign at my eponymous law firm in the fall.”
It’s not entirely clear what the announcement will mean for the Trump White House.
But in a post Sunday, Donald Trump told the New York Times he wanted to “make this announcement because I love the country and I love the work.”
Trump will focus on issues like the economy, health care, education and protecting the environment.
The White House refused to comment on whether or not Ivanka Trump will be a candidate, nor if other high-level staff will.
President Trump’s campaign tweeted Sunday they are “waiting to hear what Ivanka’s decision means.”
“It’s hard to imagine Ivanka Trump, who said she has always wished to be in politics in her career, not running for president,” former deputy White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on ABC’s “This Week.”
While not the first family to make a campaign announcement by their children, the announcement by the third eldest daughter of the nation’s leader comes at a particularly trying time.
Last month, Donald Trump Jr. and Trump’s daughter Tiffany resigned from Trump’s business empire after he was accused of sexual misconduct by several women. The accusations drew national condemnation and forced Trump and his supporters to defend him.
On Thursday, the White House denied the claim that Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen paid off porn star Stormy Daniels in a $130,000 hush money deal just before the 2016 election.
Ivanka has also been criticized for her role in her father’s
