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Ivanka Trump wants to bridge the divide between Republicans and Democrats and talk about preventing global warming
The future first daughter is already taking a more prominent role in the administration than the future first lady Melania Trump
Ivanka Trump is also hiring a chief of staff for her non-official role, to help her develop messaging on issues she cares about

By Nikki Schwab, U.s. Political Reporter For Dailymail.com

Published: 09:20 EST, 1 December 2016 | Updated: 10:04 EST, 1 December 2016

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While President-elect Donald Trump's incoming chief of staff Reince Priebus has called climate change 'a bunch of bunk,' his eldest daughter, Ivanka Trump, has a different viewpoint.

The future first daughter plans to make the combating of climate change part of her platform going forward, Politico has learned.

A source told the website that Ivanka Trump is in the early stage of exploring how to use her new role to speak out about global warming, which her father once said was a 'hoax' created by the Chinese.

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Ivanka Trump wants to take on global warming, sources say, as part of her new role of first daughter

Ivanka Trump wants to be the bridge between liberals and conservatives on climate change, a problem her father has labeled a 'hoax' in the past

Ivanka Trump, photographed leaving her apartment in New York City with Arabella and Joseph, is also going to hire a chief of staff as part of her role as first daughter

In a more recent New York Times interview, the president-elect was asked if he thought human beings were causing the warming of earth's climate and he responded, 'I think there is come connectivity.'

He might be pushed further on the issue if Ivanka, who he is immensely close to, takes a stand.

This isn't the first time the former fashion model has veered into more liberal territory.

Introducing her father in July at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ivanka promised that he would be a fighter for working mothers, bringing up issues like pay equity and family leave, policies that Democrats more often preach.

'Policies that allow women with children to thrive should not be novelties, they should be the norm,' Ivanka prescribed from behind the podium.

Ivanka Trump broke rank from a majority of Republicans at the Republican National Convention touting affordable childcare, family leave and pay equity

Ivanka Trump (right), photographed with her father Donald Trump (left) at the Republican National Convention in July, will not be a traditional first daughter

She promised that her father, as president, would change the labor laws that were put in place years before women were a major part of the workforce.

'And he will focus on making quality childcare affordable and accessible for all,' Ivanka said.

A source told Politico that Ivanka's policy agenda, if it can be called that, shouldn't surprise anyone.

'The issues she's talking about are ones she's always talked about,' said a source close to the future first daughter. 'These are totally consistent with what she's developed with her brand.'

'She is playing a critical role in being able to have issues that moderate and liberal women care about – and creating a bridge to the other side,' the source added.

She notably was friends with Chelsea Clinton, while their parents were warring on the campaign trail.

Ivanka, who will take over the Trump businesses alongside brothers Donald Jr. and Eric, has made no plans to move to Washington, D.C. from New York, but she is planning to hire a chief of staff.

She may hire additional staff members too, Politico reported.

And while she recoiled at a suggestion from DailyMail.com during the New Hampshire that she'd essentially be taking over the role of first lady from her father's third wife Melania Trump, she's already playing a bigger role than first daughters have in the past.

'Margaret Truman sometimes took her mother's place at ceremonial events,' Katherine Jellison, an expert on the first ladies from Ohio University, told Politico. 'Pat Nixon's younger daughter, Julie, would fill in for her sometimes.'

'But here in the last century, we haven't seen something like this where the first lady wants to live in an entirely different city and let the first daughter take that larger role,' Jellison said.