Melania Trump wants Americans to know her husband is not a racist and is not anti-immigrant, as voters in 11 states go to the polls for Super Tuesday.
In an interview with Anderson Cooper on Monday night, Melania discussed hot-button issues surrounding her husband's presidential campaign.
As Super Tuesday dawns, Trump is leading comfortably in Georgia and is expected to win at least eight of the 11 primaries and caucuses.
Melania told Cooper she has to have a very thick skin and has to as the remaining GOP candidates' attacks become more vicious against her husband as the candidates fight to come out on top.
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Melania Trump sat down with Anderson Cooper on the eve of Super Tuesday in her second ever solo interview
Melania told Cooper that Trump's demeanor and tone will be different if he's able to claim the White House
The Donald has proven himself to be a natural politician with retail-campaign skills not seen in the south since the days of Bill Clinton as he spoke to 7,500 people in in Valdosta, Georgia
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz should hold on in his home state and one other. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio might win a contest.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich and retired surgeon Ben Carson aren't expected to take home any medals at all, but they could collect handfuls of delegates in states that don't set a minimum voting threshold.
Similar suspense, with fewer insults, animates the Democratic race. Hillary Clinton, the establishment pick, scored a weekend blowout in South Carolina on Saturday. She looks strong in many Super Tuesday states.
As they discussed the campaign's tone, Cooper asked Melania if she thought her husband could change his, as many have been critical of how Trump handles certain situations.
Cooper said: 'You know, your husband has been criticized for sometimes his tone on the campaign trail.
'One thing he said to me is that as president, you know, campaigning is one thing.
'As president he would have a different tone if he was actually in the White House.'
Melania said she believes her husband would be different if he was sitting in the Oval Office.
'Yes, he can have a different tone.
'He really can have a different tone, because to build the empire and the business that he built, you cannot always use that kind of a tone.
'And he can really change.
'I know him, and he could really change the words and the tone.
'And - but, you know, he is who he is.
'And you could see his following and people agree with him because they are tired of Washington and politicians in Washington. They don't do much,' Melania said.
The former model touched on a wide range of issues from her husband's tweeting habits to his refusal to repeatedly disavow former Klansman David Duke, who endorsed him last week
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The conversation touched on things like Trump's language and Melania saying she didn't like that he called Ted Cruz a 'p****'.
She said: 'I don't agree with everything that he says, but you know, that is normal.
'I'm my own person, I tell him what I think, I'm standing very strong on the ground on my two feet and I'm my own person, and I think that's very important in the relationship.'
They also discussed Melania's legal immigration to the U.S. and Trump's late-night Twitter habits, which she said don't bother her.
Cooper and Melania addressed the recent controversy surrounding Trump disavowing former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke and then refusing to disavow the Klansman again.
The former model said her husband is not racist or anti-immigrant, but that they don't agree 100 per cent on every issue. She said she thinks it's healthy to 'be your own person' in a marriage and relationship
Melania said she doesn't think Trump refusing to disavow former Klansman David Duke again will be a problem for her GOP front-running husband
'Well, he disavowed many times. He disavowed at a press conference on Friday.
'So, I don't know why media needs to ask him so many times, because he disavowed.
Cooper then asked if Melania thought this could be a problem for Trump.
'I don't think so because they were asking him about the groups, and he said I don’t want - I don't know about the groups, what you are talking about, the groups.
So, he disavowed, many, many times. So media is just bringing up, bringing up all the time.'
Trump holds up a CNN national poll showing him with a commanding lead as he speaks at a campaign rally at Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Georgia
Trump was at home in America's deep south at Valdosta State University, while 12,000 were stuck outside and could not get in, on Monday
Trump, as he always does, stayed after his speech for a half an hour to sign memorabilia and pose for pictures
Trump spoke to around 7,500 people at Valdosta State University, while another 12,000 were stuck outside and could not get in
The interview aired just hours before Super Tuesday, which is likely to determine who will get the party nomination for President.
Until now, voters in four states have picked the only delegates – and just a few of them – who are needed to clinch the party nominations.
That changes overnight, with each party holding contests in 11 states on Tuesday. Democrats also vote in American Samoa.
Republicans will allocate 595 delegates from the results of Super Tuesday, nearly half of the 1,237 needed for the nomination.
Democrats will allocate 865, more than one-third of the necessary 2,383.
The scoreboard shows 3-1 leads for Trump and Clinton.
Trump won New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada. Clinton won Iowa, Nevada and South Carolina.
Republican Ted Cruz won Iowa. Sanders won New Hampshire.
Proud husband: Donald Trump beams with pride as his wife smiles and waves to supporters after he won the South Carolina primary on February 20. Also pictured: daughter Ivanka Trump, left
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