Trump reportedly considered choosing Ivanka as his running mate in 2016

President Trump was reportedly eyeing a potential Trump-Trump ticket in 2016. According to an upcoming book by former Trump deputy campaign manager Rick Gates, Trump suggested naming his daughter Ivanka Trump as his running mate in 2016, The Washington Post and Bloomberg report. "I think it should be Ivanka," Trump reportedly said. "What about Ivanka as my VP?" Gates writes that "we all knew Trump well enough to keep our mouths shut and not laugh" at the idea, per Bloomberg, as Trump went on to ...