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| Dec 31, 2020

Hello America…here comes Ivanka!

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Ivanka Trump, Assistant to the President, speaking last Monday during a campaign rally for Republican Georgia Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue. (Photo: John Bazemore for Times of Israel)

Ivanka Trump’s Monday tweet showering Iowa with affection is fueling speculation that she may be eyeing a 2024 run for the Republican presidential nomination.

Iowa is the first state to vote in the presidential primaries and an essential part of building momentum for any campaign hoping for a successful run.

Outgoing President Donald Trump is still thought to be considering a 2024 run. Few former Presidents have sought the office again after losing re-election, and only one has been successful. Grover Cleveland finally won a second term in 1892 after losing r-election in 1888.

Mr Trump might hold a rally on January 20 in Florida at the same time as President-elect Joe Biden holds his inaugural address, Axios reported earlier this month.

This may be the moment Trump chooses to announce a 2024 run. An announcement would almost certainly clear the field of almost all Republican challengers, including Trump’s children, as he still holds a large part of the Republican base in a vice-like grip.

Donald Trump Jr is also said to be mulling a run for office and many observers think that he has a much closer relationship to his father’s base of supporters than his sister Ivanka.

Eric Trump’s wife Lara Trump is reportedly eyeing a run for the Senate in her home state of North Carolina in 2022 as current Senator Richard Burr has announced that he will not run for reelection.

Burr stepped down as the chairman for the Senate intelligence committee in May after an investigation was opened to decide if he was guilty of insider trading. The result of the investigation has still not been announced.

Rumours about Ivanka Trump’s political intentions have already been swirling in connection to a possible run for Senate in Florida, challenging Marco Rubio in 2022. Ivanka’s father beat Rubio by 19 points in Florida’s 2016 Republican primary, showing that Rubio is far from unbeatable for a Trump in the state.

White House senior advisor Ivanka Trump listens as she participates in a “small business relief update” video conference virtual event along with her father U.S. President Donald Trump and banking executives to discuss the U.S. government’s rescue program for businesses hurt by the coronavirus pandemic, in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner have bought a plot of land in Miami Beach, The New York Post first reported. The purchase could be part of a plan to build a base in the state to possibly run for office. Florida is fertile territory for the Trumps.

Donald Trump bought the exclusive resort Mar-a-Lago in southeastern Florida in 1985 and has called it “The Southern White House” during his time in office. Long considered a swing state, Florida voted twice for Donald Trump who increased his winning margin in the state in 2020 compared to 2016. Barack Obama narrowly won the state in 2008 and 2012.

Adam Smith, the former political editor at the Tampa Bay Times, told CNN that the “normal rules would not apply to Ivanka”.

“I think she’d be the immediate frontrunner if she ran for US Senate against Rubio, given her father’s popularity in the Sunshine State,” he said.

The chairman of the Florida Republican Party Joe Gruters said that the rumours of Ivanka’s possible Senate run were “just noise,” Orlando Weekly reported.

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