President-elect Donald Trump is now saying he doesn't expect Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to appoint his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, to the state's soon-to-be vacant Senate seat.

“No, I don’t. I probably don’t, but I don’t know. Ron’s doing a good job,” Trump said on Monday (December 16) via the Hill. “It’s his choice. Got nothing to do with me. Lara’s unbelievable.”

The president-elect's comments came days after reports that he was pushing for DeSantis to appoint his daughter-in-law to replace Sen. Marco Rubio, who will resign in order to serve as the next administration's secretary of state.

“Trump really wants Lara to do it,” a well-positioned source close to the discussions at Mar-a-Lago told the New York Post, claiming the president-elect's daughter-in-law had a high likelihood of being selected.

On December 9, Lara Trump told the Associated Press that she would "100% consider" replacing Rubio while resigning from her previous position as co-chair of the Republican National Committee.

“It is something I would seriously consider,” she told the Associated Press in an interview published Sunday (December 9). “If I’m being completely transparent, I don’t know exactly what that would look like. And I certainly want to get all of the information possible if that is something that’s real for me. But yeah, I would 100% consider it.”

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