{"id":35670,"date":"2024-12-09T02:39:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T08:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=35670"},"modified":"2024-12-09T02:21:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T08:21:47","slug":"rnc-co-chair-lara-trump-to-step-down-amid-speculation-about-florida-senate-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=35670","title":{"rendered":"RNC Co-Chair Lara Trump to step down amid speculation about Florida senate seat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of President-elect&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/alerts\/jd-vance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>&nbsp;whom&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/trump-endorses-michael-whatley-rnc-chair-lara-trump\/story?id=107170370\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">he tapped<\/a>&nbsp;to co-chair the Republican National Committee for the 2024 election cycle, said she intends to step down from her position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The move comes amid mounting speculation that she could be tapped to fill an upcoming Senate vacancy in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/alerts\/hurricane-helene\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Florida<\/a>, whose Sen. Marco Rubio&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/trump-select-sen-marco-rubio-secretary-state-sources\/story?id=115728323\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">has been nominated<\/a>&nbsp;for secretary of state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The job I came to do is now complete and I intend to formally step down from the RNC at our next meeting,&#8221; Lara Trump said in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/laraleatrump\/status\/1865959195045920820?s=46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a post<\/a>&nbsp;on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Should Rubio be confirmed as secretary of state in Trump&#8217;s incoming administration, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis would need to choose a successor to serve out the rest of Rubio&#8217;s term, which expires in 2026.<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/trump-promises-pardon-jan-6-rioters-day\/story?id=116577153\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It is something I would seriously consider,&#8221; Lara Trump said in an interview with The Associated Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">She added, &#8220;If I&#8217;m being completely transparent, I don&#8217;t know exactly what that would look like. And I certainly want to get all of the information possible if that is something that&#8217;s real for me. But yeah, I would 100% consider it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/rnc-chair-lara-trump-step-amid-speculation-florida\/story?id=116590610\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of President-elect&nbsp;Donald Trump&nbsp;whom&nbsp;he tapped&nbsp;to co-chair the Republican National Committee for the 2024 election cycle, said she intends to step down from her position. The move comes amid mounting speculation that she could be tapped to fill an upcoming Senate vacancy in&nbsp;Florida, whose Sen. Marco Rubio&nbsp;has been nominated&nbsp;for secretary of state. &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":35671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[31532,31531],"class_list":["post-35670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-lara-trump","tag-national-committee-co-chair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35672,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35670\/revisions\/35672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}