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Melania Trump Explains Her Absence From the Campaign Trail

Melania Trump at the 2015 New York Spring Spectacular Opening Night in New York City on March 26, 2015.
Andrew H. Walker—WireImage/Getty Images Melania Trump at the 2015 New York Spring Spectacular Opening Night in New York City on March 26, 2015.

But her absence doesn't mean she's ignored

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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