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Back in 1990, when her parents broke up, a split that spawned hundreds of headlines in the tabloids of New York, Ivanka Trump was eight years old. Her younger brother worried their mother would leave them forever. Her older brother raged against their philandering father. Ivanka? She got teased at school, and she cried at home, and she asked her mother, “Mommy, does it mean I’m not going to be Ivanka Trump anymore?” But she also played “peace maker and keeper,” her mother said earlier this year. She talked to her father often from her private school in New York and later from her boarding school in Connecticut, calling collect, dialing his office, where he would put her on speaker and say to the people in the room she was “the smartest,” the “most beautiful.”

“The only phone call Donald would always take was Ivanka,” a close Trump associate told me this week.

The 34-year-old daughter of the Republican Party’s presidential nominee always occupied a singularly important role in his life—and has grown up to occupy a singularly important role in his unlikely campaign. She has changed the stances and tone of a man notorious for listening to almost nobody but himself, and she’s had steady, growing influence in behind-the-scenes decision-making. And Thursday night in Cleveland, she is going to deliver a speech normally reserved for a spouse. The job was not given to her older brother, Donald Trump Jr.; or her younger brother, Eric Trump; or her youngest sister, Tiffany Trump; or her stepmother, Melania Trump, her father’s third wife. Ivanka Trump got the nod to introduce him before the speech in which her father accepts the nomination—and she got it because she is a combination of things that both flatter Trump and help make up for what he lacks.

She is physically fit and attractive, as her own father has pointed out more than once, raising eyebrows. “She’s got the best body,” he once told radio shock jock Howard Stern. “If Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her,” he once said on TV. “If I weren’t happily married and, you know, her father …” he said just last fall. More than her two closest brothers, who are also executive vice presidents at the Trump Organization, she has his entrepreneurial savvy—having started her own lines of shoes and sunglasses, bracelets and bags, forging a somewhat independent identity in the shadow of one of the most famous men in modern America.

Last summer, she introduced him, too, before he made the speech announcing he was running. Since then, she has emerged as one of his most trusted advisers and most effective defenders, tamping down conflicts, mopping up after him, trying to keep peace and mend relationships. And now, in the latest, most high-profile moment of a relationship that’s been unusually close, “daddy’s little girl” with a Trumpian twist, the poised, polished Ivy League graduate will take the stage tasked with a mission that could not be performed by anybody else named Trump. The wife and mother of three will attempt to soften his crude, sexist image, repair his rotten reputation with women voters and do more of what she’s done throughout the campaign—say what he should have said in the first place.

“I think she is the campaign’s greatest asset when it comes to women voters,” longtime Trump political consultant Roger Stone told me this week.

“There’s no better reflection of a man than his children,” said Michael Caputo, a former senior adviser for Trump’s campaign. “And I think she’s one heck of a reflection.”

“Mr. Trump,” spokesperson Hope Hicks told me, “trusts her implicitly.