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According to reports, Barron Trump will make his debut in the political arena at the Republican National Convention.
“The Republican Party of Florida on Wednesday night picked the 18-year-old youngest son of former President Donald Trump as one of the state’s at-large delegates to the Republican National Convention,” POLITICO reports.
BREAKING: The Republican Party of Florida chooses Barron Trump as one of the state’s at-large delegates to the Republican National Convention pic.twitter.com/QKjuyKnMPu
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POLITICO reports:
The state party also selected other Trump children as delegates, including Eric Trump as its delegation chair — meaning he’ll place his father’s name in for the nomination — and Donald Trump Jr. and Tiffany Boulos, formerly Trump, and her husband Michael Boulos as other at-large delegates.
A Trump campaign official said Barron “is very interested in our nation’s political process.”
Donald Trump recently lamented that he wouldn’t be able to see Barron Trump graduate high school given his trial in Manhattan involving hush-money payments to an adult film actress, but the judge relented to allow him to attend next week’s ceremony at Oxbridge Academy in suburban West Palm Beach. Barron Trump hasn’t announced what his plans are for after graduation.
The delegates will appear at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in July.
“We have a great delegation of grassroots leaders, elected officials and even Trump family members,” Florida GOP chairman Evan Power said, according to NBC News.
“Florida is continuing to have a great convention team, but more importantly we are preparing to win Florida and win it big,” he added.
Just in: The Republican Party of Florida has Baron Trump the son of President Trump as one of the state’s party at-large delegates to the 2024 Republican National Convention.
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Per NBC News:
Eric Trump, the delegation’s chairman, joined Power, the state GOP chairman, on a phone call with party leaders Wednesday night.
Donald Trump has won the state twice, including by more than 3 percentage points during his 2020 failed re-election bid, and the state party has largely lined up behind his presidential bid this year even before he has been formally nominated.
The party was put in a difficult position this cycle with Gov. Ron DeSantis also running for the GOP presidential nomination, but even with their home-state governor in the race, Florida party officials signaled they would back Trump.
In September, party leaders voted to remove a loyalty pledge requirement that would have required GOP presidential candidates to support the eventual Republican nominee to be on the state’s March 19 primary ballot. The proposal was supported by Trump but openly opposed by DeSantis’ campaign.
Beyond Trump family members, the Florida GOP approved several of the former president’s top supporters as RNC at-large delegates.
Others include Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump Jr.’s fiancée; Michael Boulous, Tiffany Trump’s husband; former state Attorney General Pam Bondi, a longtime Trump ally who has run pro-Trump super PACs; longtime Trump adviser Sergio Gor; former Marvel Entertainment Chairman Ike Perlmutter, a prominent Trump donor; and a series of state-level Republican politicians who took the risk of endorsing Trump over DeSantis.
