“I
hate the word ‘surrogate.’ What does that mean?” Ivanka Trump said on a
stage on Wednesday morning at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Laguna Niguel,
California. “At one point, major newspapers were writing that I was
running to be a Vice-Presidential candidate. I’m, like, ‘No, I’m a
daughter. I don’t express my views on policy, with one exception.’ “
That exception, she said, was affordable child care, and she proudly
took responsibility for employing her daughterly influence to convince
her father, Donald Trump, to incorporate a child-care tax deduction
and dependent-care saving accounts into his policy platform, because
matters affecting working women were “very core to her professional
mission.” Still, she insisted, “I’m not a surrogate. I’m a daughter.”
Ivanka was appearing at the Fortune Most Powerful Women conference,
an annual gathering of some of the most accomplished women in corporate
America. She had spoken at the conference before, but this year the
stop took on an obviously larger significance. Rather than simply
reaffirming her celebrity presence among the female entrepreneurs and
C.E.O.s of Fortune 500 companies in attendance, Ivanka was trying to
salvage her brand, which is built around young professional women and
working mothers, two groups who appear to be recoiling from her father’s
Presidential candidacy in large numbers.
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