{"id":108119,"date":"2024-12-09T12:03:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T12:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/rnc-co-chair-lara-trump-to-step-down-amid-speculation-about-florida-senate-seat\/"},"modified":"2024-12-09T12:03:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T12:03:47","slug":"rnc-co-chair-lara-trump-to-step-down-amid-speculation-about-florida-senate-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/rnc-co-chair-lara-trump-to-step-down-amid-speculation-about-florida-senate-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"RNC Co-Chair Lara Trump to step down amid speculation about Florida senate seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-12-09\/Untitled%20design%20-%202024-12-09T065608.926.png\" alt><figcaption>Anita Pouchard Serra\/Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(WASHINGTON) &#8212; Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of President-elect Donald Trump whom he tapped to co-chair the Republican National Committee for the 2024 election cycle, said she intends to step down from her position.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes amid mounting speculation that she could be tapped to fill an upcoming Senate vacancy in Florida, whose Sen. Marco Rubio has been nominated for secretary of state.<\/p>\n<p>&#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 a post on X.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is something I would seriously consider,&#8221; Lara Trump said in an interview with The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anita Pouchard Serra\/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) &#8212; Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of President-elect Donald Trump whom he tapped 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<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/rnc-co-chair-lara-trump-to-step-down-amid-speculation-about-florida-senate-seat\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}