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When the previous president solid his vote within the Florida major election on Tuesday, the previous first girl was by his facet.
This was notable for just a few causes.
Former President Donald J. Trump has mentioned for months that his spouse, Melania, would be part of him on the marketing campaign path. And for months, Mrs. Trump remained absent from marketing campaign occasions and victory celebrations — after Mr. Trump cruised to a victory on Super Tuesday, his spouse didn’t be part of him onstage to greet supporters at Mar-a-Lago, their house in Palm Beach, Fla.
Always extra content material to be a cipher to the curious public than she is to gamely discipline questions, Mrs. Trump did one thing out of character when she replied to somebody who requested whether or not she deliberate to be a extra common presence going ahead.
“Stay tuned,” she mentioned.
It was a reply, however not a solution.
(“That’s the reply she offers when she doesn’t wish to decide to something,” Stephanie Grisham, her former communications director who wrote a memoir in regards to the Trump White House, mentioned in a textual content message.)
Mrs. Trump, 53, has formally been a political partner for nearly a decade, however she has proven little curiosity in campaigning, regardless of her recognition as a surrogate for her husband.
Her public appearances in current months have been sparse, and so they haven’t been within the service of her husband’s marketing campaign.
One of her most notable was to ship a eulogy for her mom, Amalija Knavs, who died in January. In that uncommon speech, Mrs. Trump, who was shut sufficient to her mom that Mrs. Knavs and her husband, Viktor, typically lived in a collection on the White House, described her mom as “a ray of sunshine within the darkest of days.”
Before that, Mrs. Trump, a naturalized U.S. citizen, attended a naturalization ceremony in December and informed members that citizenship “means actively taking part within the democratic course of and guarding our freedom.” (Mrs. Trump acquired an immigrant visa reserved for “people with extraordinary capability” in 2001, when she was a mannequin, and the circumstances surrounding her immigration course of got here beneath scrutiny when she was first girl.)
And in November, she joined the opposite dwelling first girls at a memorial service for the previous first girl Rosalynn Carter.
On Tuesday, Mr. Trump informed folks gathered exterior the polling location in Palm Beach that he had voted for himself. A spokeswoman for Mrs. Trump didn’t instantly reply to a request for details about the previous first girl’s vote.
