Donald Trump's kids can't vote for him in the New York primary
Two of the people closest to Donald Trump's presidential campaign cannot, it turns out, vote for him in New York's primary.
The billionaire businessman confirmed on Monday that his children, Ivanka and Eric Trump, missed the state's voter registration deadline and so will not be at the polls come April 19th
They are so grounded.
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According to the GOP frontrunner, his kids feel guilty the won't be casting a ballot for their father.
"They had a long time to register and they were unaware of the rules so they feel very, very guilty, they feel very guilty, but it's fine, I understand, that," Trump said on Fox News' "Fox and Friends Monday. "I think they have to register a year in advance."
He said that he didn't believe the registration rules were unfair, but actually, his claims aren't quite true.
New York's GOP primary is on April 19, but previously registered voters had up until last October to change party affiliation to cast their ballots.
Trump announced his candidacy last summer, leaving his children months to switch their party affiliation if they were, in fact, already registered as Democrats or Independents.
New voters have a bit longer to make up their mind and can register to vote in New York's closed primary until March 25. It's unclear if they were entirely unregistered or registered with a different party, but the pair had month since their father announced his intention to run as a Republican to register with the party.
Some pointed to the news as being evidence of a sloppy campaign.
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But others note that they may have been entirely unaware of the time restrictions. Either way, it looks like they made a "yuge" mistake that have many questioning their party loyalties.
Records obtained by Yahoo News show both have donated money to Democrats in the past including New York Sen. Chuck Schumer and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, as well as other prominent Republicans.
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"Eric and Ivanka, I guess, won't be voting," Trump said.
All of Trump's children have been active on the campaign trail in the run up to the primary. Both Eric and Ivanka have appeared as surrogates for their father's campaign.
Both Eric and Ivanka appear to be following their father's lead of opting out of the primaries: Trump himself has not voted in a primary election in two decades.
Trump's other adult son, Donald Jr., is registered with the Republican Party in New York, so he will be eligible to vote.
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Megan Specia was Mashable's Assistant Real-Time News Editor and joined the team in September 2014. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism & Mass Communications from the University of New Hampshire after growing up in the Jersey 'burbs. She made her way to New York via a four year stopover in Dublin. Megan previously worked as a journalist and editor at Storyful in both Dublin and New York. Before all of that, though, her claim to fame was as head cake arranger and purveyor of all things sweet at Queen of Tarts cafe in Dublin, where she developed a serious addiction to macarons.
