by Nicholas Ballasy
Lara Trump, President-elect Trump’s daughter-in-law, announced she’s stepping down as Republican National Committee co-chair while her name remains in the mix for to fill the Senate seat currently held by Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.
The incoming president selected Rubio as his nominee for secretary of state. He is subject to Senate confirmation.
Mrs. Trump’s name as been floated, among others, as a potential replacement.
“The job I came to do is now complete and I intend to formally step down from the RNC at our next meeting,” she said in a Sunday in an X post.
Trump has expressed in the opening.
“But yeah, I would 100 percent consider it,” Trump told the Associated Press in an interview. “If I’m being completely transparent, I don’t know exactly what that would look like. And I certainly want to get all of the information possible if that is something that’s real for me. But yeah, I would 100% consider it.”
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Nicholas Ballasy has been breaking news for more than a decade in the nation’s capital and questioning political leaders about the most pressing issues facing the nation. Since 2008, Ballasy has interviewed former President Bill Clinton, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, former President Donald Trump, Sen. Mitt Romney, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. John McCain, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Vice President Al Gore, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and more.
Photo “Lara Trump” by Gage Skidmore CC2.0.
