--- title: Ivanka Trump: What to Know Before her RNC Speech description: Donald Trump had his sons speak on Tuesday and Wednesday. 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"He’s really set the agenda for what both parties are talking about,” Ivanka says of Donald’s campaign_ by [Will Drabold](https://time.com/author/will-drabold/) ## Will Drabold Jul 21, 2016 2:12 PM UTC by [Will Drabold](https://time.com/author/will-drabold/) ## Will Drabold Jul 21, 2016 2:12 PM UTC Donald Trump had his sons speak on Tuesday and Wednesday. Next up at the Republican National Convention: his daughter Ivanka. Ivanka Trump is many things in her family: [entrepreneur](http://www.ivankatrumpfinejewelry.com/), [manager](http://time.com/4405825/the-apprentices/) and [diplomat](http://time.com/4392409/ivanka-trump-donald-trump-feminist/). But above all, Ivanka, 34, is Donald’s most trusted advisor. While Donald Jr and Eric, Trump’s two other children from his first marriage, have been key surrogates on the campaign trail, Ivanka has publicly softened her father’s rough persona and pushed him to make important decisions. Ivanka [told TIME](http://time.com/4405825/the-apprentices/) she started young in the family business, shadowing a foreman at a Trump building in Manhattan when she was 15\. Today, Ivanka has her own jewelry line, recently purchased a luxury golf course in Miami and is overseeing construction of a hotel a few blocks from the White House. “My father is a feminist,” Ivanka [said earlier this month](http://time.com/4392409/ivanka-trump-donald-trump-feminist/). “He’s a big reason I am the woman I am today.” Married to Jared Kushner, a New York real estate investor and top Trump advisor, Ivanka has three children. She converted to Judaism when she married Kushner, a fact that recently came up during her father’s [Star of David controversy](http://time.com/4392387/donald-trump-star-of-david-tweet-8chan-pol/) on Twitter. Though wives traditionally introduce their candidate husbands at conventions, Ivanka, not Donald’s wife Melania, will introduce him to accept the Republican nomination for president on Thursday night. This unusual choreography shows the important role Ivanka plays in her father’s inner circle. “She is, without question, one of her father’s most trusted advisers,” a longtime Trump advisor [recently told TIME.](http://time.com/4405825/the-apprentices/) One reason Donald values Ivanka is because she speaks her mind. “I’m a daughter, not a clone,” [Ivanka told People](http://motto.time.com/4414551/ivanka-trump-donald-daughter/). “I share my viewpoints with him privately, not publicly. I’m not the candidate.” As the Republican convention reaches its crescendo Thursday night, all eyes will be on Ivanka as she frames America’s future as full of problems only her father can solve. > [](https://twitter.com/CNN/status/755548917610188801) ## Transcript I'm so proud of what my father's accomplished. And, while I play no formal role on the campaign, I'm his biggest supporter and advocate. [ MUSIC ] I've seen firsthand what he's been able to do in his capacity as a parent. Which as a parent of three children myself, I recognize, is no easy task to raise children. And to make them feel loved and confident, secure, to instill on them a sense of work ethic and ambition and drive. So [ UNKNOWN ] did as a parent [ MUSIC ] Especially now as an adult, looking back in retrospect, it was really amazing, and obviously my mother played a massive role in that as well. But also, what he's done at the Trump organization as a leader. He sets big audacious goals, and then he gives people the confidence to help him achieve them. And he's done that his entire life in business and in a lot of senses, he's doing that vis- a- vis his campaign on a much bigger scale. He's really set the agenda for what both parties are talking about, he has big dreams for the future of America and And the capability to execute on that. [ MUSIC ] I try not to get ahead of myself. I certainly have a lot on my plate with a young family, with a husband who I love very much and wanna spend as much time with as I can and running the Trump Organization and my own business. So You know at this point I'm really taking things day by day. Should we get there, and I hope we will. Come November then you can ask me the question. 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