Melania Trump To Step Into The Spotlight During First Night Of Republican Convention
CLEVELAND (CBSNewYork) -- All kinds of speaker have taken the stage at political conventions, but rarely if ever is the speaker a former supermodel.
That will change Monday night, when Melania Trump is expected to address the crowd at the Republican convention in Cleveland.
As CBS2's Jessica Moore reported, Melania Trump is seen as the quintessentially supportive wife. She's always at her husband's side and rarely takes the microphone, but often secures a direct line to the candidate's ear.
"She said, 'if you run, you'll win and almost from the day we announced we've been in first place. So here she is, my best pollster. Thank you honey," Trump said.
Now, the 46-year-old Slovenian born former model and business woman could be the next first lady of the united states, and the first foreign-born first lady since John Quincy Adams almost 200-years-ago.
"I see around they compare me to Jackie Kennedy, and it's an honor, but we are in the 21st century. I will be different. We have a lot of different problems now and we will deal with that and take it from there," she told CNN's Anderson Cooper.
Trump wants the country to know that his third wife is more than just a pretty face. She speaks five languages, and is an outspoken defender of her role as a full-time mother to the couple's 10-year-old son Barron.
By throwing her into the spotlight on the first night of the convention, Trump hopes the country will see him the way she does, and realize how he can adapt.
"Really can have that tone, because to build an empire you cannot have that tone, so he can change," she said.
While she has advised her husband to calm the tone of his debates, Melania Trump said she agrees with him on the issue of immigration. She became a U.S. citizen in 2006, and stands by Trump's policy to crack down on the enforcement of illegal immigrants.
