Melania Trump & Jill Biden's Approach to the First Lady Role Could Impact Presidential Election
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When a man is running for President of the United States, do their spouses influence how people vote? Well, it seems to depend on the candidate and how their partners view the role of first lady. According to a new poll, voters have very different perspectives of Dr. Jill Biden and Melania Trump.
Redfield & Wilton Strategies conducted a poll for Newsweek which discovered that Americans find Jill more influential “in the decision-making around” President Joe Biden’s campaign with 52 percent of those polled saying she was a “very or “fairly” important part of the team. Melania polled with 33 percent believing she was not ” important to decision making” for former President Donald Trump.
President Joe Biden, Donald Trump.
Ohio University professor Katherine Jellison noted to the media outlet that the poll results track how the women’s first lady legacies are likely to be perceived. “Jill Biden has been a higher-profile first lady and politician’s spouse than Melania Trump ever was, and Dr. Biden is seemingly more enthusiastic about playing both of those roles than Mrs. Trump,” she pointed out.
Jellison’s perspective also aligns with what Kate Andersen Brower, author of First Women: The Grace and Power of America’s Modern First Ladies, told SheKnows last August. Brower believes that Melania is as “much of a cipher now as she was then” because she is “unknowable” in the position of first lady. “Melania Trump revolutionized it in an unusual way because she didn’t move into the White House right away,” she explained. “She didn’t do what we all wanted. She didn’t seem to care about making the public like her. It was bizarre.”
On the other hand, Jill loves acting as an ambassador for her husband’s administration, and even though she isn’t paid for the first lady role, she has made a significant impact. “Jill Biden is working, which no first lady has ever done, [and] it’s remarkable to think about,” Brower said of Jill’s job as a professor of English at Northern Virginia Community College. It seems that Joe Biden voters expect Jill to make an impact on his campaign while Donald Trump supporters know that Melania isn’t interested in politics — she prefers life behind the walls of Mar-a-Lago.
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