BEDFORD, New Hampshire – The first-in-the-nation primary state received a visit from a potential first lady Wednesday.
Kelley Paul, the wife of Republican presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul, received a warm welcome from a crowd of mostly women in a private home where she stopped to promote her new book,“True and Constant Friends.” “I want to support Rand however I can,” Kelley told msnbc, adding, “I think that we need some new leadership, so I’m going to work hard to elect Rand Paul.”
Kelley said her role in the campaign is to support her husband and the rest of their family as they “juggle travel and a lot of demands” on their time. “I see myself giving some more speeches probably, helping with some of his messaging.”
The Kentucky senator’s wife is a former political consultant and will play a larger role in this campaign than her mother-in-law, Carol – the wife of three-time presidential candidate Ron Paul — ever did. “I think the Ron Paul campaign lost out by not using Carol more, early and often. Because once she started kind of putting herself out there, people absolutely loved ‘Luvie,’ as we call her. I would have liked to see more of her in Ron’s campaign.”
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Considered by the Paul campaign to be a “secret weapon,” Kelley Paul’s biggest role is to soften his image. Earlier this week on NBC’s “Today Show,” she defended the senator’s testy interview with Savannah Guthrie and charges of sexism that followed. “As a spouse, you always want the person you love to come off the best that they can, so it’s hard for me sometimes to see him being criticized because that’s not who he is in terms of his relationships with women,” she told “Today Show” host Hoda Kotb. “His longtime surgical partner, over 10 years, was a female surgeon.”
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