Did Donald and Eric Trump try to sneak a glance at their wives' votes?


Both Republican nominee Donald Trump and his son Eric Trump voted alongside their wives in Manhattan on Tuesday — and both Trump men seemed a little nervous as to what their better halves were up to at the adjacent polling stations.
Here's Donald voting next to wife Melania this morning, as she cast her vote at P.S. 59 in New York City's Upper East Side:
And here's Eric, also peeking over at wife Lara as they cast their votes at the 53rd Street Library:
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Ricky Soberano is the social media editor at TheWeek.com. Her writing has appeared in Complex, Nylon, Gothamist, Maxim, and others. Previously she was the culture editor for The Stony Brook Press and contributing editor for The Odyssey. She has a B.A. in multidisciplinary studies in journalism and dance from Stony Brook University and an A.S. in dance from Queensborough Community College. She's lived in Brooklyn her whole life, eats too much ramen, and freelance models, and she enjoys writing about the undiscovered and underreported within the sphere of culture. Follow her on Twitter.
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