Senator Marco Rubio Won't Face Ivanka Trump Challenge In 2022

WFSU | By Valerie Crowder

Published February 18, 2021 at 5:30 PM EST

Ivanka Trump is not planning to challenge Senator Marco Rubio in next year’s GOP Primary.

The New York Times first broke the news on Thursday that President Trump’s eldest daughter would not run for U.S. Senate in Florida.

An unnamed campaign spokesperson told The Times that the Rubio campaign has known for weeks that Ivanka Trump wouldn’t pose a challenge in 2022.

Many in the GOP have expressed support for a Trump Senate bid.

Speculation about the Trump family’s political future continues. But the former president is not giving any clues as to how that might look. He recently said it was too soon to talk about running again in 2024.

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Valerie Crowder

Valerie Crowder is a freelance reporter based in Panama City, Florida. Before moving to Florida, she covered politics and education for Public Radio East in New Bern, North Carolina. While at PRE, she was also a fill-in host during All Things Considered. She got her start in public radio at WAER-FM in Syracuse, New York, where she was a part-time reporter, assistant producer and host. She has a B.A. in newspaper online journalism and political science from Syracuse University. When she’s not reporting the news, she enjoys reading classic fiction and thrillers, hiking with members of the Florida Trail Association and doing yoga.

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