2023-06-20 15:10:10
Casey DeSantis, soon to be first lady of the United States? She dreams of it. Florida Governor’s Wife Ron DeSantis is in all discussions at the moment. She has been nicknamed his “secret weapon” or even his “grey eminence” but who really is this woman in the shadows? The 42-year-old former journalist, breast cancer survivor and mother of three, made headlines as she launched her husband’s highly anticipated 2024 presidential campaign. Her charm, political involvement and alleged “anger” have long been a force in the Republican’s rise to power.
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Early in her career, the Ohio native hosted TV shows on the Golf Channel including “On The Tee” and “PGA Tour Today” before landing a job as a reporter with WJXT in Jacksonville, Florida. She worked at the local station as a reporter and presenter before moving into field reporting, including for CNN. She then hosted the chat show “The Chat” on Jacksonville station WTLV in 2014. Two years later, she produced “The J.T. Townsend Story,” an award-winning documentary regarding the disabled high school football hero. . In 2019, the stylish mom of three became the youngest woman to serve as Florida’s First Lady at the age of 38.
A colorful woman
Casey DeSantis is often presented as a warm and necessary presence to her sometimes stiff and socially awkward husband. His presence helps “humanize the robot,” one of Ron DeSantis’ former staffers told Politico. She is comfortable in the spotlight, often referring to her husband as “a good father” and “the embodiment of the American dream.” Others compared her glamorous looks and composure to Jackie Kennedy.
Behind the scenes, the pair are so politically in sync that they’ve developed a “unique identity,” according to a source who worked with the couple during his 2015 run for Congress. She advises him on everything from appearances in the media to his politics, sources said. “By shaping it, showing it the way. [Elle] doesn’t look like any first lady, as far back as I can remember,” said Mac Stipanovicha veteran lobbyist from Tallahassee, to Politico.
Former members of DeSantis’ team called Casey DeSantis “paranoid” and “surly,” while someone close to Trump compared her to Lady Macbeth. An associate of DeSantis insisted she should “take on a more traditional role,” according to the Politico article, which called her the politician’s “greatest asset and greatest liability.” “It’s his ultimate defense,” said a former DeSantis employee, who worked on one of his campaigns.
Like husband, like wife
Casey DeSantis has the same political line as her husband. Assumed anti-woke, she wore, on an official trip with her husband, a jacket bearing the slogan “Where woke goes to die” (Where wokes die), superimposed on the map of the state of Florida. An eminently political jacket in the 30 degrees it was that day. Casey DeSantis may be a very (very) right-wing Republican like her husband, with transphobic, homophobic and conservative positions, she continues to be considered too progressive by some DeSantis supporters. The latter reproach her for her omnipresence in the life, choices and career of her husband. Too active a role for those for whom she should confine herself to her role as mother and wife.
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