President-elect Donald Trump isn’t leaning on Gov. Ron DeSantis to pick Lara Trump for a soon-to-be-open Senate seat.

“I probably don’t (expect it), but I don’t know. Ron’s doing a good job and it’s his choice. Nothing to do with me,” President-elect Trump told reporters in Palm Beach.

He noted that Lara Trump, his daughter-in-law and the recent former Co-Chair of the Republican National Committee, “could have run for the Senate in North Carolina” and won, but she wanted to “focus on her children.”

Lara Trump has been direct in saying she would like the appointment.

“If I am appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and he feels that I’m the right fit to take over the U.S. Senate seat for Marco Rubio,...

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