Can Ivanka Trump become president? Experts believe without the Trump surname, she is 'nothing in politics'
Political consultants have no good news for Ivanka Trump, who is reportedly eyeing to become the President of the US in the future.
While Dr Louis Perron, a Switzerland-based political consultant and scientist, said the January 6 Capitol riots have adversely impacted the future political aspirations of the former first daughter, a UK-based academic Dr Sinead McEneaney said Ivanka’s chances to become the leader of the country is very less because of her inability to connect with her father’s support base.
When Perron was asked what makes the 39-year-old ineligible for the presidency, he told Express.co.uk, “The Trump last name. Nothing more and nothing less. If she wasn’t a Trump, she would be nothing in politics. And I say this as somebody who has worked for famous politicians and their children.”
He also mentioned that “any political future for Donald Trump or his children will depend on how the Trump brand will be seen in two respectively four years from now. Who knows now what will be the political setting by that time, but at the moment, it seems very unlikely to me that the brand can recover."
"The events from the past month will likely leave a big stain. I think that a scenario where we will learn more about how chaotic and detached from reality the Trump White House has operated is more likely than a recovery of the brand,” he added.
“I don't see a distancing strategy as a possible scenario for her. I think that such a distancing strategy could only work for people who worked with Trump, but were less associated with him and had more of an independent personality. For example Nikki Hailey or Mitch McConnell and his wife,” Perron explained, before referring to Ivanka’s tweet in which she labeled Capitol rioters as “patriots” but soon deleted it.
He said that her now-deleted tweet shows how much she wrongly judged the situation. Perron also spoke about the political future of other children of Donald Trump. He stated, “The same way as for Ivanka and the other Trump children. The only possible scenario I see for them is to run in a state or congressional district that is a Trump stronghold and where the Trump base (which exists) is enough to win. But for a high-profile, competitive election, I don't see it.”
Dr Sinead McEneaney, a lecturer in history at the Open University, was quoted as saying by Express.co.uk: “As adviser to her father, Ivanka is well placed to build on his networks of connections, especially if she was interested in raising money for a possible run for elected office. There is a problem with being tainted by the legacy of her father, but there is a long history of presidential children successfully entering politics in their own right.”
McEneaney continued, “I think the bigger challenge for Ivanka is finding an authentic political home: she does not naturally display the kind of conservatism her father so readily embraced. She doesn’t have the same ability to disrupt that he does. She often sits on the fence. This won’t speak to the Trumpist base in the same way as, say, Donald Jr might."
She contined, "It would not be unreasonable to expect the first woman president to be a Republican. Of course, that’s assuming that Ivanka would see her political future in the Republican party. It is difficult to imagine, though, that any Democrat would take her seriously.”
McEneaney also talked about the controversial tweet posted by Ivanka and said it negatively affected her credibility. “When Trump was elected, centrists who were appalled at the antics of her father hoped that Ivanka would be some kind of moderating influence on him. This did not turn out to be the case. Time after time, Ivanka fell into line behind her father’s worst impulses. The badly framed tweet implying that the attackers of the Capitol were patriots is another example of this,” she added.