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President-elect Donald Trump said Monday that he doesn\u2019t expect Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to appoint his daughter-in-law Lara Trump to the Senate.<\/p>\n

The seat in Florida will soon be vacant because Trump has chosen Republican Sen. Marco Rubio to be secretary of State. Trump had discussed the possibility with DeSantis that he pick Lara Trump to fill the seat, but he told reporters Monday at Mar-a-Lago that he \u201cprobably\u201d didn\u2019t expect that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t. I probably don’t, but I don’t know,\u201d he said when asked if he expected DeSantis to appoint her. \u201cRon is doing a good job. It is his choice, nothing to do with me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Blue Light News previously reported<\/u><\/a> that DeSantis was considering several options for the seat, including Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nu\u00f1ez, Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody or former Florida House Speaker Jose Oliva. The governor announced over social media that he was vetting candidates and interviewing them, and with a selection \u201clikely made by the beginning of January.\u201d The formal confirmation process for Rubio won\u2019t begin until after Trump is sworn into office.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s biggest supporters on social media \u2014 and a few in the Senate, including Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) \u2014 have been pushing for DeSantis to appoint Lara Trump, who has been a Florida resident for 3.5 years and was co-chair of the Republican National Committee. She has said during media interviews that she would be interested in the job, and recently resigned from her RNC role. But on Monday, Trump noted his daughter-in-law was also being recruited for television jobs as well. \u201cShe\u2019s got so many other things that she\u2019s talking about,\u201d he said. \u201cHe\u2019ll make the right decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump and DeSantis spoke a couple of weeks ago, when they both attended a memorial for state deputies who were killed in a crash. On Monday, he called his daughter-in-law \u201cunbelievable\u201d and \u201cincredible,\u201d citing her work at RNC with chair Michael Whatley, who is staying on in the role.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe is so highly respected by women,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI mean, even her work-out routines are through the roof. She lifts 150 pounds. I don’t know how the hell she does it. She is a bad example for men and women, because I wouldn’t be able to beat her, I don’t believe. I would try like hell.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President-elect Donald Trump said Monday that he doesn\u2019t expect Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to appoint his daughter-in-law Lara Trump to the Senate. The seat in Florida will soon be vacant because Trump has chosen Republican Sen. Marco Rubio to be secretary of State. Trump had discussed the possibility with DeSantis that he pick Lara Trump […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}