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To many, she seems like the anti-Trump, except there she is, speaking more eloquently than anyone else on the campaign in support of her father as his wife, Melania, has to be coaxed into saying a few words in heavily Slovenian-accented English.

Does she agree with her father’s provocative, sometimes illegal pronouncements on immigration, torture and Muslims? It’s not entirely clear. She hasn’t criticized him in public. In fact, Ivanka in public has been unshakably diplomatic and graceful about her father and his campaign, even when he’s making her the target of cringe-inducing comments about dating her.

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“Yeah, she’s really something,” Trump said of his daughter in September, “and what a beauty, that one. If I weren’t happily married and, ya know, her father … “

Ivanka has brushed off controversies like crumbs from a silk blouse.

“Look, my father is very blunt. He’s very direct. He is not gender specific in his criticism of people, and people that he doesn’t particularly like or people that he does like but thinks they’re wrong on a particular issue,” she said in an interview with CNN. “So I don’t think that he’s gender-targeted at all. Like I said, I wouldn’t be the person I am today, I wouldn’t be a high-level executive within his organization if he felt that way.”

Named for her mother, Ivana, her father’s first wife, she was born with a gold-leafed spoon in her mouth and could have become one more gilded young socialite.