In honor of Valentine’s Day, The Horn News has decided it was time to take a look at the special someone in the hearts of the remaining GOP field.
Many first ladies throughout history have been influential to their husband’s presidencies. Dolly Madison, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jacqueline Kennedy and Betty Ford are only a few who’s actions have had lasting effects on our nation.
There are six remaining GOP candidates in the 2016 Presidential race, meaning six potential first ladies. While a lot of time has been spent analyzing each candidate, it is important to consider which leading lady would join their husbands in the White House, should they be elected.
Here are the Republican presidential candidates spouses:
Heidi Cruz —
Wife of Texas Senator Ted Cruz, Heidi was born in San Luis Obispo, California in 1972. She is the daughter of two missionaries for the Seventh-day Adventist Church and graduated from Claremont McKenna College in 1994 with a B.A. in Economics and International Relations.
Heidi received her masters of European Business from Universite Libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, Belgium in 1995 and received her M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 2000. She met Ted while they were both working on George W. Bush’s 2000 Presidential campaign, and they married in 2001.
Eventually she became the director for the Western Hemisphere on the National Security Council under National Security advisor Condoleezza Rice in 2003. She left Washington in 2004 to support her husband’s political career and throughout the campaign, she has become Cruz’s most prolific fundraiser.
Columba Bush —
Wife of Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Columba is a Mexican-American philanthropist born to a migrant worker and waiter in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico. She met Jeb in 1970 in Leon when she was 16 and he was 17.
He was teaching English as a second language and assisting in the building of a school. They married in Texas in 1974, and she became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1979.
She is an advocate for Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, and Arts for life, a scholarship program for young artists. She is active in promoting the arts and worked to create Arts for Life!, a program intended to increase the importance of art in the education system.
Lacena “Candy” Carson —
Wife of retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, Candy grew up as one of five siblings in inner-city Detroit.
Her mother was a teacher and her father a factory worker. She studied classical violin and won a scholarship to Yale University where she triple-majored in music, psychology, and pre-med. She played in the Yale Symphony Orchestra and the Bach Society.
She met Ben at Yale and they married in 1975. They moved to Baltimore where she earned her MBA from Johns Hopkins University. In 1994, she and Ben co-founded the Carson Scholars Fund, a nonprofit scholarship organization. She is active on the Carson campaign trail.
Jeanette Dousdebes Rubio —
Wife of Florida governor Marco Rubio, Jeanette was born in Florida to parents who had immigrated from Colombia.
She met Marco while attending South Miami Senior High School, the same school he attended. They began dating when he went to college in 1990 and he is four years older than her.
She worked as a bank teller and professional dancer for the Miami Dolphins, as a member of the Miami Dolphins cheerleaders in the mid 1990s. She retired in 1997 and married Marco in 1998. The two have four children together, and Jeanette has always placed an emphasis on making family a priority above career goals.
Karen Kasich —
Wife of Ohio governor John Kasich, Karen was born and raised in central Ohio. She completed her bachelor’s degree from Ohio State University in Communication.
While working for a PR firm, she met John while creating a quick profile of him as a representative. They dated for 8 years and married in 1997.
She climbed the corporate ladder to become a vice president at GSW Worldwide, until she quit to raise their twin daughters Emma and Reese. As Ohio’s first lady, Karen has been a huge health and fitness advocate.
Melania Trump —
Wife of billionaire Donald Trump, Melania was born in Slovenia in 1970 to a car and motorcycle dealership manager and a fashion designer.
She began her modeling career at 16 and signed with an agency in Milan at 18. She studied design and architecture at a University in Slovenia, and moved to New York City to model in 1996.
Melania worked with many major designers and photographers, and appeared on the cover of many influential fashion magazines. She met Trump at a Fashion Week party in 1998, and they were married in 2005. When asked about how she act if Trump were president she claimed she would give him support and act traditionally, channeling previous first ladies like Jackie Kennedy or Betty Ford.
Go trump.we need a leader with balls and trump has big ones and stands up for what he believes .all the rest of them are puppets it’s time for new blood . I stand with trump
I agree! Move out of the way Obama. Don’t do anymore so called, “fix it” plans. Let Trump handle our problems.
Any of the republican candidates’ wife would make an honorable, beautiful first lady and would represent our country very well. st lady.
Why such a bad picture of Trump’s wife?
She is Slovenian. That is her serious look. When she smiles, WOW!
They would all make lovely First Ladies. Since I support Mr Trump for President, I believe Mrs Trump would be a wonderful representative for America and would be admired like Jackie Kennedy. She is beautiful, soft spoken, intelligent and a patriot. I pray she will become the next First Lady , not the crooked, loud and obnoxious Hillary Clinton who should be thrown in jail for her traitorous acts.
I agree, a wonderful first lady to follow America’s worst ?lady?
I to support Mr. Trump. Mrs Trump would make a great first lady. Interesting and refreshing.
Fantastic comment M French, I too support Mr. Donald J Trump for President of the United States. billary clittnon is a murdering, narcissistic, ego maniac. she has offered on numerous occasions how your personal protection weapons are to be removed from your possession as soon as possible. Side question I would be interested in learning where the trillions of dollars that were supposedly borrowed? All that money can’t be hidden easily. Does anyone on this earth know where even one dollar of this money went? Just curious.
I agree with you. She is beautiful and inteligent, too.
Sorry, Intelligent.
I also support Donald Trump for President. I’m sure Mrs. Trump would be a lovely First Lady. Our country needs a president like Donald and a first lady like Melania. Good luck to the both of them.
I agree with you French
All the ladies would make great first ladies and god forbid we get HILLARY DILLARY LOOKS LIKE A CLOCK. then we would have a first HUSBAND yuk yuk yuk.
Hillary will be a third term for obama. I don’t call him president nor I want to capitalize his name
You summed it so methodically. Wally.
What a SICK demeaning question they asked of Melania… how would you “ACT” if your husband is elected? THAT WAS RUDE AND A SLAP!! They did not ask any other wife “how would you act?” !!! Melania Trump has more class and beauty than ANY other wife of ANY candidate. Not to mention she is well spoken, soft spoken and very professional – she would make the BEST first lady HANDS DOWN!! We could not ask for a better, more powerful couple to represent and lead our country than Donald and Melania Trump!! AND his 5 children are a COMPLIMENT as well. We LOVE LOVE LOVE that he is SELF-FUNDING instead of being “bought and paid for” by special interest groups – our country REALLY needs Trump. HERE’S WHAT MADE US REALIZE TRUMP IS THE BEST CHOICE: he already owns very huge successful companies, he’s worth multi billions, he does NOT “have to” run for President and he certainly does not need the headaches of dealing with all the negative & dishonest media – he already has “life on his terms”! So he is actually doing America a huge favor by remaining strong in this run for commander in chief. NO DOUBT TRUMP WILL BE OUR NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE USA & OUR COUNTRY WILL BE BLESSED BEYOND MEASURE WITH HIM AT THE HELM!!
Rude behavior toward Trump’s wife is wrong, but they got the idea because how he treated Magyn Kelly and Carly F. This is why Trump’s disrespectful behavior is wrong. I have been complaining about it and called rude names and treated badly. Think about this. The truth is Trump is an arrogant, liar, slanderous, women hatting, racial bigot, treated this disabled man with disrespect, Anti Semitic, Anti Muslim, economic bigot, temper tantrum throwing, spoiled rotten, bully, who is foul mouthed, who threw is friend who helped him under the bus individual. He uses not being PC as an excuse for being disrespectful. PC is politically correct not polite, Respectful candidates are Ben Carson, John K, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. and when Carly F was in the running her too. He only started to say non liberal speech when he started to run for president. People who dramatically change that much feel shame which he says he does not. Those of us against him being president sees this behavior and don’t think it is a good example. When imitated on Mrs. Trump you do not like it either. She deserves respect like the rest of us. You want real positive change vote for Ben Carson.
That would be a night mare if Hillary would win,, she would be another Obama, I think Trump would get our country back
for us, Trump needs to keep his mouth shut when Bush, bashes him, it is just a trick, he is trying to work him up and everyone
knows it, he should just ignore him, it is just a trap, he wants to work him up, ignore , ignore , ignore, that will get old Jeb Bushes
goat, do it Mr Trump ,,,,, don’t give in to him, don’t let him ruin things for you, your doing great, You are a winner , you are not
one to give up , or give in to people like Jeb Bush, ignore, ignore, ignore, then what will he do, ???? everyone knows your thoughts and what you are for, please don’t give up, your a winner and you are winning,
DONALD TRUMP NEEDS TO BE GIVEN A CHANCE WE WILL NEVER KNOW.
I am voting for Mr Trump and I think he will America back in good shape. He is not Washington ‘insider. Keep calm, be yourself and no profanity and swearing he will earn Americas vote