Barron Trump named among Republican Party delegates ahead of US election
By Annabelle Timsit and Andrew Jeong
Washington: Former president Donald Trump’s youngest son, Barron Trump, is making his political debut: the 18-year-old has been named as a Republican delegate to represent Florida at the party’s national convention that will nominate the candidate for the November election.
Barron Trump, who was only 10 when his father was inaugurated as president in 2017, has largely been shielded from the political limelight. His selection – along with three of Trump’s other children – reflects the latest expansion of the clan’s takeover of the party.
Barron Trump (right) with Donald and Melania Trump at the funeral of the ex-president’s former wife Ivana Trump in July 2022. Credit: JNI/Star Max/GC Images
Barron’s half brothers Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr, along with his half-sister Tiffany Trump (as Tiffany Boulos), were also nominated, according to a list of 41 delegates at-large released on Wednesday by the Republican Party of Florida. Half-sister Ivanka Trump was not on the list.
The Florida delegates will join thousands of delegates from every state at the Republican National Convention to nominate their party’s candidate for the presidency.
This year, the convention will take place in Milwaukee from July 15 to 18 – just two months after Barron’s high school graduation.
Trump, who declared himself a Florida resident in 2019, won the state in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections.
President Donald Trump, right, and his son Barron Trump board Air Force One in 2020.Credit: AP
Eric, who is executive vice president of the Trump Organisation and served as a highly visible surrogate for his father’s reelection campaign in 2020, will serve as chair of the Florida delegation, the state Republican party said.
Other delegates with connections to the former president include Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump Jr’s fiancee; Michael Boulos, Tiffany Trump’s husband; former Florida attorney-general Pam Bondi; Sergio Gor, a member of Trump’s 2020 campaign team; Issac Perlmutter, former Marvel chairman and billionaire Trump supporter; Steve Witkoff, a Florida real estate investor and Trump donor; Sue Snowden, the chair of the Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign in Palm Beach County; and Florida state representative Randy Fine, the first Republican state lawmaker to announce his defection last year from the presidential campaign of Trump foe and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to Trump.
“We are fortunate to have a great group of grassroots leaders, elected officials, and members of the Trump family working together as part of the Florida delegation to the 2024 Republican National Convention,” said Evan Power, the chairman of the Florida Republican party.
Barron has largely grown up outside the political spotlight – a tradition for the children of presidents that the White House at the time sought to protect.
Barron was 11 when he and his mother, Melania Trump, moved into the White House. He is set to graduate from Oxbridge Academy, a private high school near his father’s Florida estate at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, on May 17.
The former president obtained permission from the judge in his hush-money trial in New York to attend the ceremony.
The new slate of Repulican delegates in Florida is the latest example of the omnipresence of the Trump family in Republican Party politics. The former president’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump was installed as co-chair of the Republican National Committee in March.
The Washington Post
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