During Donald Trump’s presidency, son-in-law Jared Kushner and daughter Ivanka Trump followed a pattern: get close when things were going well and distance themselves when things turned bad. Both worked as advisors within the administration and had broad portfolios that at various points encompassed Mideast peace and Covid-19 response (his) and women’s entrepreneurship and human trafficking (hers). Practically, the couple also served as two of the former president’s most consistent advisors in White House marked by constant chaos and nonstop turnover.
Since leaving government, the younger Trump and Kushner have lived semi-private lives in Miami, though Instagram remains an outlet for the former first daughter. Last week when the New York Times asked Trump, through Kushner, if she might join her father’s campaign in its final days, he was adamant she would not.
So it’s perhaps politically telling that the couple will be attending the campaign’s election night party at Mar-a-Lago, per three sources close to the couple. Ivanka was absent from the early campaign when her father’s political fortunes seemed dire, skipping his low energy campaign launch in November 2022. “While I will always love and support my father, going forward I will do so outside the political arena,” she said at the time.
The couple has shown support at some of the campaign’s bigger moments throughout the summer. After the assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Pennsylvania in July, Ivanka wrote on social media “Thank you for your love and prayers for my father and for the other victims of today’s senseless violence… I love you Dad, today and always.”Both Ivanka and Jared and their children were at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in later that month to see the elder Trump nominated.
As Election Day draws to a close, the pair will be close. According to two of the sources, Kushner has been telling people he’s “cautiously optimistic” that his father-in-law will win. “Kamala is not getting the turnout she needs,” Kusher said, according to a source who spoke with him.
Kushner declined to comment, as did a spokesperson for Ivanka.
