Ivanka Trump has reportedly ‘become a full MAGA’, considering her political candidacy for Florida governor

Ivanka Trump has “become a full MAGA” in the last days of her father’s administration as she weighs her options for a future political career, according to reports.

Donald Trump’s eldest daughter, long seen as a moderating influence on the president’s populist agenda in her role as an adviser to the White House, has taken a much more aggressive tone in recent months, rebuking her critics.

Last week, confirming that she had been deposed as part of a state investigation into alleged misuse of funds during the 2017 inauguration, the 39-year-old attacked the investigation as a show of revenge and waste of taxpayer dollars led by the democrats. “.

The week before, he had similarly attacked an investigation by New York authorities into his father’s taxes as “outright harassment,” a “fishing expedition,” and an “ongoing political vendetta.” “This ‘investigation’ of New York City Democrats is 100% motivated by politics, publicity and anger,” he tweeted.

Trump’s shift in Ivanka’s public comments comes after a gradual conversion to the right, bringing his point of view more in tune with the president’s own conservative policy, according to CNN.

“(She) has gone full MAGA,” an anonymous source told the station. Another said: “Ivanka definitely has political ambitions, there is no question about it. She wants to run for something, but that has yet to be resolved.”

The CNN article cites “two friends and a small group of White House associates,” “a source familiar with their thinking,” a “source,” “a source who has been working closely with the Trump family,” and ” another source nearby. ” Ivanka.

She is reportedly considering a possible run for governor of Florida in the near future, or for Congress in New Jersey, both states where the Trump family has vacation homes. Trump officially changed his primary residence from New York to Florida last year.

The current Republican Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, has been one of the president’s staunchest allies, urging him to “keep fighting” in his efforts to overturn the election results. DeSantis has been featured as a possible candidate for 2024 – his current term ends on January 3, 2023.

According to CNN, Ivanka’s decision to start “talking more” and stop “sitting back and letting people say what they want and distort the facts” comes with her father’s blessing. “Of all the kids, Trump focuses on her running,” the source said. “He sees Ivanka as the heir apparent.”

However, another source told CNN that the speculation was premature even though she had not “closed the door” to a political career. “Right now, all he cares about is his political endeavors, accomplishing what he can on behalf of the administration in the weeks that remain and taking care of his three young children,” they said.

Trump has previously said that his eldest daughter would be “very, very tough to beat” if she ever wanted to run for president, despite insiders suggesting her progressive leanings are a detour for the “MAGA” base.

“Whether it was or not, it was always supposed to be the ‘moderating influence’ (on his father), which doesn’t make you very popular with the average Republican voter,” said The Atlantic political writer McKay Coppins, to The Times last month. . “There are not many people asking for Ivanka to run.”

Critics within the White House dubbed Ivanka “HABI,” or “home to all bad ideas,” while her husband Jared Kushner was dubbed “secretary to everything” for his extensive meddling, investigative journalist Vicky Ward wrote. in a book about the couple last year.

Ward, Kushner, Inc. Book: Greed. Ambition. Corruption. The extraordinary story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, described the couple as ruthlessly ambitious and hated by many who were forced to work with them.

The president’s more right-wing advisers criticized Kushner’s focus on progressive causes like criminal justice reform, which many believed had hurt him politically.

In July, Axios reported that Trump regretted hearing some of his son-in-law’s advice and would follow his instincts more. “No more crap waking up from Jared,” an advisor told the site, interpreting his comments.

Trump’s rank-and-file animosity toward “Javanka” was epitomized by the couple’s fiery relationship with Steve Bannon, the former chief strategist who left the White House after a fight with his boss in 2017.

In Ward’s book, Bannon recalls clashing with the couple when he tried to turn the rhetoric of Trump’s nationalist campaign into government policy, describing Kushner as a “bloody devil.”

He also claimed to have told Ivanka to “fuck you … you’re nothing” in front of his father during a discussion about who was the biggest media leaker, and Ivanka reportedly called him a “fucking liar”.

The day after Biden declared victory, CNN reported that Kushner had reached out to his father-in-law to concede, a story many hoped had been leaked by the couple as an image-saving measure.