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Michelle Obama rules out running for office: ‘Wouldn’t ask my children to do this again’

By Sean Langille
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Michelle Obama rules out running for office: ‘Wouldn’t ask my children to do this again’

Former first lady Michelle Obama shot down speculation that she would run for office during a speech in Orlando Thursday.

In her first speech since her husband left office, she told the America Institute of Architecture convention in Orlando that she didn’t want to subject her daughters, Sasha and Malia, to the strains of campaigning and being in the public eye again.

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