# Will either Ivanka or Donald Jr make a run at the president's office in 4 years? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 16, 2020, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-either-ivanka-or-donald-jr-make-a-run-at-the-presidents-office-in-4-years/925655 "2020-11-16T02:30:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tastes_of_chocolate/32/3232_2.png) [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tastes_of_Chocolate)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-either-ivanka-or-donald-jr-make-a-run-at-the-presidents-office-in-4-years/925655/1 "2020-11-16T02:30:07Z")
My current nightmare that either Ivanka or Donald Jr will declare their candidacy for POTUS in 2024. I’m just not sure which one of them will head the ticket. That would leave the next 4 years to keeps 45’s name a live with constant revisionist historical accounts of how much better things were. I just don’t see them going quietly back to their previous lives of business and social hob-knobbing. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-either-ivanka-or-donald-jr-make-a-run-at-the-presidents-office-in-4-years/925655/2 "2020-11-16T02:38:42Z")
I would hope that we’ve learned a lesson about hiring a plumber to wire your house. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-either-ivanka-or-donald-jr-make-a-run-at-the-presidents-office-in-4-years/925655/3 "2020-11-16T02:39:07Z")
No; they will not. They never had a life of business _and_ social hobnobbing; it’s really just the social hobnobbing that they do. I mean, grifters don’t exactly have _jobs_, ya know what I’m sayin’? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-either-ivanka-or-donald-jr-make-a-run-at-the-presidents-office-in-4-years/925655/4 "2020-11-16T02:46:06Z")
I can certainly see either, or both, talking about it, forming committees, and using the idea to fleece MAGAts out of donations. Assuming that they aren’t already in the process of being tried for criminal activity (or already convicted) by mid-to-late 2023, I think that they’d likely drop out of the race – they saw first-hand how close the scrutiny was of their father’s activities, and I have no doubt that they both have very large skeletons in their closets that they would rather not have examined too closely. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-either-ivanka-or-donald-jr-make-a-run-at-the-presidents-office-in-4-years/925655/5 "2020-11-16T19:58:04Z")
Don Jr. seems to be trying to position himself as the firebreathers’ choice for Spiritual Successor in the current tantrumregnum. Ivanka and Jared were playing it cooler but may have hurt themselves by being perceived as trying to talk the Prez down. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-either-ivanka-or-donald-jr-make-a-run-at-the-presidents-office-in-4-years/925655/6 "2020-11-16T20:08:52Z")
Don Jr will run on making coke/crack legal. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-either-ivanka-or-donald-jr-make-a-run-at-the-presidents-office-in-4-years/925655/7 "2020-11-16T21:24:22Z")
Almost certainly _someone_ with the Trump name will run again. Will it be a serious run that goes very far? I doubt it. But they’ve got a massive list of suckers to get donations from and self-dealing they can spend it on. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-either-ivanka-or-donald-jr-make-a-run-at-the-presidents-office-in-4-years/925655/8 "2020-11-16T21:35:24Z")
I think whatever people liked in Trump isn’t transferable to any of his kids. So my guess is that neither Don Jr nor Ivanka get anywhere with their candidacies. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-either-ivanka-or-donald-jr-make-a-run-at-the-presidents-office-in-4-years/925655/9 "2020-11-16T21:48:20Z")
I guess it depends on whether the old tanTrump is still alive and out of prison or not. If he is still alive and out of prison he will try and run himself, if he is dead of natural causes one of the two will try, if he is alive and in prison they will have other worries. Hell, in this last case they may be in prison themselves! Which is what I am rooting for. ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-either-ivanka-or-donald-jr-make-a-run-at-the-presidents-office-in-4-years/925655/10 "2020-11-16T22:05:34Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > They never had a life of business _and_ social hobnobbing; it’s really just the social hobnobbing that they do. I mean, grifters don’t exactly have _jobs_ , ya know what I’m sayin’? [https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/14/politics/jared-kushner-ivanka-trump-post-white-house/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/14/politics/jared-kushner-ivanka-trump-post-white-house/index.html) Apparently, going back to that life will be difficult. Who would have guess that supporting someone who wants to withhold a vaccine from your friends would make it hard to keep those friends. ---
**Author:** ![Brayne\_Ded](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Brayne\_Ded](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brayne_Ded)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-either-ivanka-or-donald-jr-make-a-run-at-the-presidents-office-in-4-years/925655/11 "2020-11-16T22:38:42Z")
It would be fun to see them try, but they would probably be among the first candidates to drop out. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-either-ivanka-or-donald-jr-make-a-run-at-the-presidents-office-in-4-years/925655/12 "2020-11-17T01:54:42Z")
Four years is a lot of time for lawsuits and investigations to muster. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-either-ivanka-or-donald-jr-make-a-run-at-the-presidents-office-in-4-years/925655/13 "2020-11-17T04:14:27Z")
I was going to say this question is too absurd to consider, then I remembered how fucking stupid 70 million in this country are. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-either-ivanka-or-donald-jr-make-a-run-at-the-presidents-office-in-4-years/925655/14 "2020-11-17T04:23:34Z")
I agree, but then again, I’ve said variations of this before. ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-either-ivanka-or-donald-jr-make-a-run-at-the-presidents-office-in-4-years/925655/15 "2020-11-17T04:32:29Z")
The way these Super PAC seem to run the appeal of setting up a shrouded in secrecy funding organization and not having to actually win would seem irresistible. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-either-ivanka-or-donald-jr-make-a-run-at-the-presidents-office-in-4-years/925655/16 "2020-11-17T04:35:11Z")
Ivanka could run for the Senate in 2022. 34 seats will be contested. She’d have a good chance of winning against a weak candidate. Then run for the White House in 2024. The strategy worked for Obama. It’ll be interesting to see if she and Jared create a residency in a state with a vulnerable Senator that’s up for election in 2022. > **[United States Senate elections, 2022](https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Senate_elections,_2022)** > > Ballotpedia: The Encyclopedia of American Politics