In this Oct. 14, 2015, file photo, Ivanka Trump, daughter of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, founder and CEO, Ivanka Trump Collection and executive vice president of Development and Acquisitions, The Trump Organization, speaks at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit in Washington. | AP Photo Ivanka Trump: My dad has 'elevated' political dialogue

Donald Trump is a what-you-see-is-what-you-get candidate who has “elevated” the political discourse, according to the candidate's daughter, Ivanka Trump.

Speaking at a Forbes magazine women’s summit in New York, Ivanka Trump praised her father, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, for being genuine, a quality she said is unseen in politics.


“He’s honest. With him, what you see is what you get — even if you don’t like the topic,” she said, according to a report from The Telegraph published Friday. “I think people respect the fact that he is bold enough. That is something we have never seen in politics.”

Donald Trump, who slammed Mexicans as “rapists” and pledged to build a wall on the southern border that Mexico will pay for when he announced his candidacy last summer, has often credited himself for bringing immigration to the fore of the campaign.

“He has elevated — he has created a dialogue around issues, which really is a powerful thing,” Ivanka Trump said. “When you think about leadership, it’s setting the agenda, and he has set the agenda on all the issues that were discussed. And I think that is quite powerful.”

But so is the backlash. Donald Trump met with House Speaker Paul Ryan and other congressional party leaders on Thursday in effort to mend the fractured Republican Party. But the blowback from his divisive, controversial rhetoric has trickled down from the billionaire to his family.

“On a human level, on a personal level, it can be very difficult and challenging — especially when it’s wrong,” Ivanka Trump said of the vitriol she’s received. “And it often is wrong. The positions are often taken by people who don’t know him.”

“But I’m pretty thick-skinned,” she added.