Barron Trump: Donald Trump’s youngest son will participate in the Republican convention

Donald Trump’s youngest son, Barron Trump, will enter the political spotlight with a role at the Republican National Convention in July.

Delegates from across the United States will formally select the party’s presidential candidate at the meeting in Wisconsin, who will be Barron’s father.

The 18-year-old has been included on a list of at-large delegates who will attend the event representing the state of Florida.

Previously, Barron’s mother Melania had largely kept him out of the public eye.

Barron, the only child of his nearly two-decade marriage, did not immediately move to Washington after his father’s inauguration.

He stayed with his mother in their Trump Tower home in New York to finish his school year before moving in the summer of 2017.

His move to the White House, at age 11, made him the first male child to live there since John F. Kennedy Jr. in 1963.

He attended a private school in Maryland and rarely appeared in public, and his mother was said to be fiercely protective of his privacy.

Comments about her appearance and behavior by her father’s critics often drew fierce rebukes from the first lady’s office, as well as other former first-born children, notably Chelsea Clinton.

Since the family moved to Florida after the presidency, Barron attended a private school in Palm Beach and continued to grow impressively: he is now 201 cm (6 ft 7 in).

The high school senior, who graduates next week, appears on Florida’s delegate list with several of the former president’s close allies, according to NBC News.

The list includes Barron’s half-siblings Eric, Donald Jr and Tiffany, but not Ivanka, who has publicly said she will not be part of her father’s re-election campaign.

In a statement to US media, Florida party chairman Evan Power said: “We are fortunate to have a great group of grassroots leaders, elected officials and members of the Trump family working together as part of the Florida delegation “.

A Trump campaign official told ABC News that Barron was “very interested in our nation’s political process.”

At the party’s convention, which will take place in the city of Milwaukee from July 15 to 18, Trump will be confirmed as the Republican candidate for the November presidential election.

He has won enough statewide primaries, including one held in Florida, to clinch the nomination. Each of the country’s 50 states and several territories send delegates to the convention to officially vote for their presidential candidate, which is expected to be a simple process since there is no viable challenge to Trump.

The former president has already won 2,037 delegates in the Republican primaries, much more than the 1,215 needed to win the nomination.

On the other side of the political divide, President Joe Biden will be confirmed as the Democratic nominee at his party’s convention in Chicago this August, setting up the first U.S. presidential rematch since 1956, when Dwight Eisenhower, a Republican, again defeated Adlai Stevenson. , a Democrat.

This time, Trump is combining his campaign with legal battles. He faces dozens of criminal charges in four separate cases.

His first criminal trial is underway in New York City, where he has been accused of falsifying business records. He denies any wrongdoing.

The judge has given him special permission to take time away from court to attend Barron’s high school graduation next week.