GOP debate: As we approach 2024, what role will Trump's adult children play in campaign?

Donald Trump will skip Wednesday's GOP debate in Miami in favor of a rally in Hialeah. Will his adult children join him at the event, too?

Certainly, they live close enough.

His eldest daughter, Ivanka Trump, and her husband, Jared Kushner, live in the Miami-Dade County. Donald Jr. and his fiancée, Kimberly Guilfoyle, and Eric Trump and his spouse, Lara, live in Palm Beach County, just north of Trump's Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach.

The Trump siblings have been integral to their father's political career.

Ivanka and Jared served as White House policy aides, with Kushner specializing in Middle East geopolitics. Since the Trump administration left office in January 2021, however, the couple has stayed out of the political arena.

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Donald Jr. and Guilfoyle were fixtures on the campaign trail in 2016 and 2020, and have done speaking engagements for Trump since he announced his White House comeback campaign in November of last year. So were Eric and Lara Trump, with Lara mulling a run for the U.S. Senate in her home state of North Carolina before the 2022 midterm elections.

The former president's youngest daughter, Tiffany, was less visible but did make rally appearances and spoke on her father's behalf at the 2020 Republican National Convention. She and her husband, Michael Boulos, are said to be living in Miami. Donald Trump's youngest son, Barron, attends high school at a private school in West Palm Beach and lives with his mother and former first lady Melania Trump at Mar-a-Lago while he's in school.

What plans Trump's elder children have for their father's split-screen moment on Nov. 8 in Miami-Dade County is unknown.

But last week, the two oldest sons took turns as witnesses in the $250 million civil fraud trial in New York against the Trump family business empire. The office of Attorney General Letitia James called Donald Trump Jr. and his brother to the stand separately on Nov. 1-3.

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The former president took the stand Monday in what was widely reported as a combative and at times heated appearance. His eldest daughter, Ivanka, is scheduled to testify on Wednesday, the same day as the competing GOP debate and Trump rally.

Ahead of her appearance, the anti-Trump Lincoln Project aired a new ad taunting the former president.

The one-minute spot includes a clip in which Ivanka concedes in a speech that "my dad's communication style is not to everyone's taste" as the voice-over narration surmises she has sold Trump out in a speculated agreement with James. "What deal did she cut?" the ad said.

The Lincoln Project said the ad will run through Thursday on Fox News in the West Palm Beach area.

Overnight, Trump issued a lengthy post on his social media platform again deriding James as well as presiding Judge Arthur Engoron.

He noted that Ivanka is not a defendant in the case because she won an appeals court ruling. Still, Trump accused the New York officials of dragging her into the case to damage his presidential campaign.

Antonio Fins is a politics and business editor at The Palm Beach Post, part of the USA TODAY Florida Network. You can reach him at afins@pbpost.com. Help support our journalism. Subscribe today.

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