--- title: Melania Trump Speaks At Donald Trump Rally: Watch Live description: Melania Trump will resurface on the campaign trail Thursday when she speaks at a rally in a Philadelphia suburb. canonical: https://time.com/4556514/melania-trump-speech-pennsylvania/ author: Julia Zorthian article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-03T16:14:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:45:22.577Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Live: Melania Trump Delivers Campaign Speech in Pennsylvania og:description: She returned to the campaign trail Thursday, just days before the election og:url: https://time.com/4556514/melania-trump-speech-pennsylvania/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte4d9727a6d2febdd/6988acd597cdff4eb96ae71b/melania-trump-live-stream-speech-pa.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5295 og:image:height: 2978 og:image:alt: melania trump live stream speech PA og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Live: Melania Trump Delivers Campaign Speech in Pennsylvania twitter:description: She returned to the campaign trail Thursday, just days before the election twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte4d9727a6d2febdd/6988acd597cdff4eb96ae71b/melania-trump-live-stream-speech-pa.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Live: Melania Trump Returns to the Campaign Trail with Pennsylvania Speech > Sponsored content. 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Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images  by [Julia Zorthian](https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Nov 3, 2016 4:14 PM UTC [Melania Trump](http://time.com/4534216/melania-donald-trump-billy-bush-boy-talk/) will emerge on the campaign trail Thursday when she speaks at a rally in a Philadelphia suburb. Trump [will talk](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/melania-trump-share-experience-immigrating-us-campaign-speech/story?id=43248146) about her childhood in Slovenia and what it was like to immigrate, Donald Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway told [ABC’s _The View_](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/melania-trump-share-experience-immigrating-us-campaign-speech/story?id=43248146). Her appearance at the Berwyn, Penn., rally [reflects the campaign’s efforts](http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/30/politics/melania-trump-thursday-speech-philadelphia-suburbs/) to court middle-class women in the suburbs of the crucial battleground state. Donald Trump [recently announced](http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/30/politics/melania-trump-thursday-speech-philadelphia-suburbs/) Melania Trump would make a few campaign speeches before the election. “She’s amazing when she speaks. She’s amazing. And it’s not what she does,” [Trump told ](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/transcript-george-stephanopoulos-interviews-donald-melania-trump/story?id=43104094)[_ABC_](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/transcript-george-stephanopoulos-interviews-donald-melania-trump/story?id=43104094)_._ “And I think it’s going to be big speeches, important speeches.” Melania Trump [told ABC](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/melania-trump-share-experience-immigrating-us-campaign-speech/story?id=43248146) she’s been relatively absent on the campaign trail so she could focus on her son, Barron Trump. 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