Ivanka Trump is challenging her father’s critics, calling the Republican presidential nominee “incredibly level-headed.”

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“I think that he fights, and he’s strong, and he’s had to fight. He has a lot of people coming at him,” Donald Trump Donald John TrumpBiden leads Trump by 36 points nationally among Latinos: poll Trump dismisses climate change role in fires, says Newsom needs to manage forest better Jimmy Kimmel hits Trump for rallies while hosting Emmy Awards MORE’s daughter told the Detroit Free Press on Monday.

Ivanka Trump defended her father despite the controversies he’s sparked over the last week.

Donald Trump faced bipartisan criticism for attacking the Muslim family of an American soldier who was killed in Iraq in 2004.

And he declined to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan Paul Davis RyanKenosha will be a good bellwether in 2020 At indoor rally, Pence says election runs through Wisconsin Juan Williams: Breaking down the debates MORE (R-Wis.) last week after the Republican leader condemned his criticism of the Khan family. Trump eventually relented and endorsed Ryan.

“They’re scared,” Ivanka Trump said of the billionaire’s critics. “They never thought that he’d be where he is.”