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Melania Trump Explains Her Absence From the Campaign Trail

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Melania Trump, the relatively low-profile spouse of Republican front-runner Donald Trump, explained in a new interview why she’s chosen to stay mostly off the campaign trail.

“I’m choosing not to go political in public because that is my husband’s job,” she told Harper’s Bazaar, adding that she is “very political in private life and between me and my husband I know everything that is going on.”

But in terms of getting out on the trail, she “chose not to be on the campaign … I have my own mind. I am my own person, and I think my husband likes that…”

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