Chelsea Clinton is over 35 and a natural-born U.S. citizen, but nobody has suggested that she’d be a good pick as Hillary Clinton’s running mate.

Ivanka Trump. Photo via Wikimedia Commons
Ivanka Trump. Photo via Wikimedia Commons
Not so for another candidate’s daughter.

Sen. Bob Corker on Wednesday — after taking himself out of the veepstakes — told CNN’s Manu Raju: “His best running mate, by the way, would be Ivanka,” Donald Trump’s daughter, who turns 35 on Oct. 30.

CNBC took the vice-presidential suggestion seriously enough to post a long item on the idea, saying in part:

“As a regular on ‘The Apprentice’ and a visible businesswoman/celebrity with her own clothing line, the American people were relatively familiar with her well before the Trump campaign launched. She, too, is fashion-model gorgeous, but she’s also closer in age to millennials (which is now the single largest generational group in America), and she’s a married mother too.

“Speaking of marriage, she happens to be married to an Orthodox Jewish man and she converted to Judaism before marrying him. Ivanka’s adopted religion and full immersion into the observant Jewish lifestyle has been a strong counter argument to those who continue to accuse the Trump campaign of anti-Semitism.

“And Ivanka isn’t just being used for visual purposes, or so we’re being led to believe. More and more stories are being ‘leaked’ about the growing advisory role she’s playing in the campaign, the most prominent of which being the story that she played a big hand in ousting former Trump Campaign Manager Corey Lewandowski last month.”

CNBC concluded that Trump “will have to choose someone else for his vice presidential running mate. But he’ll be hard pressed to find someone with as many plusses as Ivanka, who generates positive attention to his campaign and – most importantly – takes a good degree of the “crazy” off of his general image.”

“Crazy” is in the eye of the beholder.

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