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I remember being here eight years ago. I was doing an interview for Omega Zee and we were actually sitting in this very room.

We took our shoes off and we were talking about the girls' schedules and trying to figure all that out.

And I left, you know, thinking and feeling the weight of it all, like the weight of the legacy that you all were carrying, the responsibility.

So I want to know, has that weight lifted or has it just shifted?

You know, it's lifted. I mean, you know, let's be honest. I mean, there is no way to describe what it feels like to open up the paper every day and know that almost every headline is your husband's responsibility at some level.

Anywhere in the world, any major problem, any major issue falls on the laps of the commander in chief.

And that is a weight that is indescribable. And now that it's time for us to move on, yeah, that weight has lifted a bit.

Not completely because the work isn't done until the President-elect takes the oath of office, but knowing that we've made it this far and we've survived.

And in many ways, I believe we've thrived. There is a weight that's lifted.

Was there a time where you thought this period would make or break you? When did you feel the most tested?

You know, I think I tend to push the challenges. This is a defense mechanism that I've had throughout my life.

The bad stuff I just don't hold on to. I mean, so if we were to sit here and you were to read through some of the bad stuff, I'd be like, oh, yeah, that's, oh, I forgot all about that.

It's like, oh, yeah, I think I was kind of mad.

But I think the way I handle things, and I, you know, I think we as women do it, we as black women better be able to do it.

Because there's so much that comes at us all the time and every day in subtle ways that could tear your soul apart if you let it.

But my mother always taught me, girl, you better keep it moving. You know, you better brush it off. And I think I've grown up doing that.

So the challenges, yeah, there are times that frustrated me. You know, this past election was challenging for me as a citizen to watch an experience. It was painful.

Had you originally planned to go out or was there a moment where you decided I'm going to now go in campaign?

They always ask me, the party, my husband, people, you know, there is an important election that has gone by where they didn't ask.

You know, the question for me is just always what and how, how is the structure? I've said this before. If I'm out there, if I leave this house and leave my girls, how do I know that this will have impact?

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