华盛顿州 President Donald Trump floated his daughter 伊万卡·特朗普（Ivanka Trump） as a vice presidential running mate during the 2016 选举, 根据一个 report by The Washington Post 在星期一.
Citing an upcoming book by former Trump deputy campaign chair Rick Gates, “Wicked Game,” that will be published October 13, The Post reported that during discussions about selecting a running mate, then-Republican presidential candidate Trump said to a group of top campaign aides, “I think it should be Ivanka. What about Ivanka as my VP?”
“She’s bright, she’s smart, she’s beautiful, and the people would love her!,” 他加了, 根据报纸.
The presidential candidate was so keen to the idea of Ivanka as a vice presidential pick and “cool to other options, including his eventual selection of then-Indiana Gov. 迈克·彭斯, that his team polled the idea twice,” The Washington Post reported. Ivanka told her father it was not a good idea and Trump chose Pence after the then-governor gave a “vicious and extended monologue” about former President Bill Clinton and Trump’s 2016 rival Hillary Clinton at a breakfast event.
CNN reached out to the Trump campaign for comment about the report.
伊万卡, who serves as a senior adviser to her father in the White House, has been a prominent fixture during her father’s political career. She introduced him when he announced his presidential campaign in June 2015 and is campaigning vigorously for his reelection.
王牌, 反过来, has often praised what he sees as his daughter’s political talent, suggesting in August that his daughter would be a better White House candidate than California Sen. 卡马拉·哈里斯, calling the Democratic vice presidential nominee “incompetent.”
“I want to see the first woman president also, but I don’t want to see a woman president get in to that position the way she’d do it, and she’s not competent, she’s not competent,” he said during a rally in Londonderry, 新罕布什尔. “They’re all saying, ‘We want Ivanka.’ I don’t blame you.”
