Palm Beach, Fla. – Palm Beach, Fala. Security was heavy at the Morton and Barbara Mendel Recreation Center, where despite a mask order in the county, only one person went inside.
The first lady, who signed Kovid-19 last month, looked at the reporters with a smile and said she looked “great”. She was surrounded by Secret Service agents, aides and an election county supervisor, Wendy Sartry Link, all wearing masks.
Her husband voted earlier in the day, but Mrs. Trump said he chose to vote face-to-face at a community center about two miles north of Mar-a-Lago. There are almost three times more Republicans than Democrats in the two constituencies assigned to vote here.
“It’s election day, so I wanted to come here to vote for the election,” Mrs. Trump told a small group of reporters who had been cleared by the Secret Service for her to see.
Voters were wiped out, but some of his supporters were outside signals, including Christy Moore, whose sign declared: “We-Melania.”
“He was anointed by God,” Ms. Moore said about the president.
Ms. Sartori acknowledged there was a mask mandate in Palm Beach County but said that if voters were not able to wear one, they would not be barred from voting.
By 7:30 a.m., 12,000 people in the county had cast their ballots. Initially, Ms. Sartori said she had been warned that the number had risen so much within 30 minutes of the start of voting and thought tracking should be stopped. Surely some seller must have made a mistake, he said. It turned out to be true.
“Everything was right,” he said of a five-minute visit to Mrs. Trump’s polling station. “She was the only voter in the room at the time.”
