Carolyn Hubay Dominguez tucked a pearly nail under the lid of a small, white box and lifted it. Inside were a pair of dangly earrings, each adorned with a rhinestoned American flag. “I thought they would match Lara’s style,” Dominguez said. “They looked like something she might wear.”
What Trump wants, Trump gets. “Sometimes, the only people you can trust are family,” Lara said in a July 5 interview with The Washington Post. “For him, that’s been the case, sadly, more often than not.” “It made me nervous that these changes were being made so close to the election,” said Burns, the Contra Costa County GOP chair.
“On top of the fact that she’s a Trump,” he added, “which gives her instant credibility with the base.” She’s the face of “Protect the Vote,” an RNC effort to recruit 100,000 volunteers to monitor the November elections so that, as Lara puts it, “2020 can never, ever happen again.” She routinely defends her father-in-law in network TV hits — joining CNN, for example, soon after his conviction on 34 felony counts to declare that the outcomes showed “the judicial system being weaponized” against the former president.
“She has the trust of the president, she has excellent TV presence, she has a sense for politics,” says Kellyanne Conway, a former senior White House counselor to Trump who remains close to his campaign. She modeled throughout college and briefly thereafter, winning a handful of bikini contests. She’d moved to New York in 2005She met Eric Trump at a Manhattan bar in March 2008. She was drawn to him not because of his last name — which she claims to not have known — but his height: At 6-foot-5, Eric would still be taller than the 5-11 Lara in heels.
She did a rally with Trump in her home state of North Carolina that fall. It went well; afterward, Trump turned to her and said, “All right, you’re going to be in charge of the state. You’re going to win it for us.” In the campaign’s final weeks, she led a “Women for Trump” bus tour aimed at softening Trump’s misogynistic image.
She had just finished singing a verse of Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down” in a duet with country singer Mark Mackay, which had drawn a standing ovation. Now she was reciting verses of Trumpist folklore. She brought up Trump’s mug shot — “the greatest mug shot in the history of the United States, ladies and gentlemen” — and described how Trump’s criminal convictions helped voters realize “the system that has been taking them down is trying to take him down.
Whether Lara sticks with the family business after Nov. 5 remains unclear. She has considered a position in the second Trump administration, should it come to pass, or a run for office in either Florida or North Carolina. She’d flirted with running for U.S.