DONALD Trump’s daughter-in-law is eyeing a soon-to-be-vacant seat in the Senate, which would mark a monumental arc from a former TV producer to a political leader.
The president-elect tapped Florida Senator Marco Rubio to lead his State Department once he takes the White House, meaning Governor Ron DeSantis can appoint who fills Rubio’s seat.
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Lara Trump, seen with her husband, Eric Trump, at an October rally, could be eyeing a Senate positionCredit: EPA
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Lara, who spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference, had made a dramatic rise to politics after working as a personal trainer and chefCredit: AP
Calls for the job to go to Lara Trump, who’s married to Donald’s third kid Eric Trump, started circulating online as Republican supporters speculated she could be the best person for the job.
Republican Alabama Senator Katie Britt publicly called for Lara, 42, to fill Rubio’s seat on Tuesday, saying she “understands the America First agenda,” according to Axios.
“For me, I think she would be a tremendous pick, a voice for hard-working families and another mom of school-aged kids that understands what we’re up against, and that’s to fight to protect the American dream,” Britt told the outlet about Lara.
Lara, who shares two kids with Eric, was elected the co-chair of the Republican National Convention by a unanimous vote after her father-in-law endorsed her.
Before she was voted in as co-chair, Lara declared that if she were elected, “every single penny will go to the number one and the only job of the RNC — that is electing Donald J. Trump as president of the United States and saving this country,” NBC News reported.
Donald was elected to be the 47th President of the United States last week in a landslide win against Democrat Kamala Harris.
His daughter-in-law was often seen on the campaign trail throughout his journey to victory, as she’s supported the Trump family for years.
Lara, born Lara Yunaska, is a native of Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, which is just east of Wilmington.
She studied communications at North Carolina State University and went on to earn a degree in pastry arts from the French Culinary Institute in New York, according to Town & Country Magazine.
Lara told comedian Tyrus this summer that she first met Eric on a night out in New York City, according to Fox Corporation site Outkick.
After dating for six years, the couple married at the family’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida in 2014.
On top of being a chef and a personal trainer on the side, Lara quickly became involved in the TV field.
Lara worked as a story coordinator and producer at Inside Edition, a TV news magazine series, from 2012 to 2016.
She hit the campaign trail with Eric and Donald’s other kids in 2016, particularly advocating for her father-in-law in her home state of North Carolina.
In the two months before the presidential election in 2016, when Donald Trump faced off against Hillary Clinton in the race to the White House, Lara put her job as an associate producer on hold.
“I wasn’t going to have the time to adequately dedicate to this,” Lara told local Wilmington paper Port City Daily at the time.
“When they’re reporting on your family on the show you work for, it’s a little challenging.
“We managed to keep everything pretty even-keeled for the duration of this whole thing, but certainly it’s nice to not have to worry about that from day to day,” she said.
After Donald was elected, Lara took an active role in the White House and worked on his 2020 reelection campaign.
On March 29, 2021, she joined Fox News as a contributor – but the stint didn’t last long.
After Trump declared his second re-election bid, Fox News announced in 2022 that Lara would no longer work at the network due to company policy.
Now, Lara might fill a seat in the Florida Senate as long as DeSantis doesn’t pick James Uthmeier, his longtime chief of staff, for the role.
Uthmeier, who serves as DeSantis’ chief of staff, could hold the Senate position until the next election in 2026, when the governor could run for the seat at the end of his gubernatorial term.
Either way, DeSantis has a huge decision ahead of him, and whatever choice is made could drastically change Florida’s political landscape.
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