The surest sign that Donald Trump is back? Ivanka is being seen in public with him | Arwa Mahdawi

When the former president looked finished, Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner kept their distance. Now he is the Republican frontrunner, they're once again by his side

There's a decent chance that, come January 2025, Donald Trump will either be in the White House or in a prison cell. Last November, my money was on the prison cell. The Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, was the Republicans' golden boy and Trump was experiencing a major slump; for one thing, he had a mindboggling number of legal problems to deal with.

He seemed to have lost his last crumbs of credibility: an embarrassing number of candidates he'd backed were defeated in the midterms, making the former president look like a loser and causing his allies to turn on him. TRUMPTY DUMPTY" crowed the once-loyal New York Post on its front page. Trump has no political skills left," a Trump campaign insider said in messages seen by the Guardian. His team is a joke. The ship is sinking."