Dazzling Casey DeSantis tells cheering
Iowa crowd husband Ron will 'never back
down' and 'always stands up for what's
right' as she stuns in baby blue gown
and mingles with supporters at 2024 rally
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Katelyn Caralle
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
5/31/2023 8:31:53 AM
Dazzling Casey DeSantis took center stage at her husband Ron's first 2024 campaign rally in Iowa, and stepped in front of the microphone to tell the crowd why he should be in the White House.
The Florida Governor invited his first lady alongside him after touting that the 'purpose of our schools is to educate kids, not to indoctrinate kids.'
'I can tell you, Ron DeSantis always stands up for what's right, he never backs down, he says what he's going to do and he gets it done', she said to cheers from the audience at the Eternity Church in Clive, Iowa.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
vrb8m 5/31/2023 8:41:09 AM (No. 1481391)
Color me not stunned.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
spacer 5/31/2023 8:48:10 AM (No. 1481396)
Lovely lady. I wish her well in the next 6 years as Florida's gracious First Lady.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Gordon Mills 5/31/2023 8:49:53 AM (No. 1481397)
Dazzling vs Beautiful, gracious, and classy. I'll take Melania every time.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Kitty Myers 5/31/2023 8:53:49 AM (No. 1481406)
Her husband is still not presidential material.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
felixcat 5/31/2023 8:54:55 AM (No. 1481407)
It certainly helps to have an attractive spouse when running for office, well, unless you're Donald Trump. I listened to Dave Rubin yesterday on the Larry O'Connor show on www.wmal.com and he is supporting DeSantis and mentioned how lovely Casey is, a cancer survivor, mother, etc. My late mother was a breast cancer survivor back in the days when they performed mastectomies - none of the chemo treatment nowadays. She was back at work against her doctor's orders because she had no more sick leave and had two children at home to care for (she was a widow) alone. She didn't brag about her survival - not her style. So sick of this deification.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
red1066 5/31/2023 8:59:28 AM (No. 1481411)
I guess the DeSantis campaign has decided that Casey is the eye candy for this campaign that should get a few votes her husband's way.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 5/31/2023 9:01:55 AM (No. 1481413)
Oh stop it already. I am a person who has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Everyone deals with the diagnosis differently. I am not one to flaunt it but I am also not staying silent either. When it is an appropriate time to talk about, I will. Casey DeSantis is as lovely as Melania Trump. I don't see what she is wearing as a "baby blue gown" but a baby blue dress.
I wish Ron and Casey DeSantis well just like all of the Republican contenders! They all have their work cut out for them. . .
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Yuban 5/31/2023 9:07:45 AM (No. 1481418)
WOW, she mingled with the peons. How special.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
happywarrior 5/31/2023 9:20:44 AM (No. 1481431)
I posted months ago that she is behind it all. She loathes President Trump, always has.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
udanja99 5/31/2023 9:26:19 AM (No. 1481437)
She can’t hold a candle to Melania. And that’s not a gown - it’s a sun dress.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 5/31/2023 9:35:10 AM (No. 1481445)
Sorry, The Daily Mail doesn't get to vote.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 5/31/2023 10:06:59 AM (No. 1481472)
She looks attractive, I guess, I wouldn't call her "dazzling". The Daily Mail obviously prefers DeSantis over Trump. The Bushs also prefer DeSantis. I like him less and less.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
EQKimball 5/31/2023 10:16:02 AM (No. 1481484)
The former television journalist with a degree in economics and French is lauded for her dress? Is this a subtle attempt to portray her as a Stepford wife?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Moritz55 5/31/2023 10:31:18 AM (No. 1481499)
Both Casey and Melania are lovely, classy ladies, and both are better looking than their husbands. 😉 No need to get catty. Leave that to the Democrats
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Melanie 5/31/2023 11:15:01 AM (No. 1481547)
My take:
Casey= Very Attractive
Melania= Dazzling
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/31/2023 11:17:18 AM (No. 1481550)
Re #13, they never seem to mention her attributes other than the cancer survivor and mother bits. Her having been a television journalist accounts for her presence. Not just your average mom-of-three. But television journalist could be a negative in his campaign, so poof! They are both being remanufactured by his handlers.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/31/2023 11:26:08 AM (No. 1481560)
For starters, her name is Jill Casey (Black) DeSantis. Former news journalist and television show host.
From a long profile article:
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Please tell us, she was asked, about your husband.
Casey DeSantis, the wife of Ron DeSantis, just a few minutes before at a table in the crowd had looked oddly disengaged, listening to him give a speech this past Saturday evening in a drab hotel conference room here, sitting somewhat stiffly, clapping intermittently, her face flat and her shoulders almost slumped. Now, though, having been prompted to join him up on stage, she turned in expression and tone suddenly and noticeably brighter.
“That’s a good question,” she cooed, thanking the head of the state Republican Party for having them and for convening this scripted Q&A, before launching into a 3 ½-minute stump speech of an answer — in which she called her husband a fighter and “a good dad” and “a good person” and “really the embodiment of the American dream,” tracing his biography from Jacksonville in Northeast Florida to Dunedin in the Tampa Bay area to Yale College to Harvard Law to joining the Navy and becoming a judge advocate general and then going to Iraq and then getting elected to Congress and then getting elected to be the governor of “the third-largest state in the country and now the 13th-largest economy in the world” and at some point the crowd found a place to applaud and she had a chance to take a breath.
More here:
The Casey DeSantis Problem: ‘His Greatest Asset and His Greatest Liability’
Ron DeSantis’ wife is going to play a very prominent role in his presidential campaign. Some of his supporters wonder if that’s an entirely good thing.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/05/19/casey-ron-desantis-wife-profile-00097456
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/31/2023 11:32:50 AM (No. 1481566)
From that same profile:
“She is every bit as involved in Ron’s rise as Ron is himself,” David Jolly, the ex-GOP Florida congressperson who’s now an MSNBC analyst, told me. “In shaping him, in driving him … it’s different,” said a veteran Republican lobbyist. “Unlike any first lady in my extended memory,” added Tallahassee fixture Mac Stipanovich.
Because she has been responsible for some of Ron’s bad decisions as well as some good, Roger Stone likens her to Lady Macbeth.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
49 Ford 5/31/2023 11:40:50 AM (No. 1481571)
So...what are some of you going to do if Trump loses in the primaries?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
spacer 5/31/2023 11:48:25 AM (No. 1481575)
# 18...the MSNBC analyst ought to do a little research. Hillary the beast literally ran Ol B Js campaign and administration.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Kate318 5/31/2023 11:50:01 AM (No. 1481577)
Oooo…DM has a girlfriend.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
cold porridge 5/31/2023 11:53:35 AM (No. 1481578)
During my 70+ years I have learned to never vote for the candidate that is being pushed by the main stream media.
MAGA
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/31/2023 12:14:07 PM (No. 1481591)
This is not being “catty". If a candidate’s spouse has inserted herself into her husband’s campagn and is known by people in that campaign to be his primary advisor, the voters need to know all about her, too. She becomes fair game.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
JoElla Bee 5/31/2023 12:15:38 PM (No. 1481594)
FTA: He distinguished himself from top competitor and former President Trump by claiming he isn't running for president to get famous.
'At the end of the day, leadership is not about entertainment,' DeSantis said to massive cheers. 'It's not about building a brand. It's not about virtue signaling. It's about results.
Donald Trump was way passed “getting famous” by the time he ran for POTUS. His “brand” had been established for years. Trump is about as opposite a virtue signaler as they come!
Trump’s Make America Great Again results - despite unprecedented attempts to stop them - call into question the attacks by DeSantis on Trump.
So, this attempt to transfer the negative perceptions about DeSantis onto Donald Trump, while DeSantis tries to co-opt doing Trump better than Trump, causes more concerns about DeSantis’ reasons for “jumping in” to the presidential race at this particular time.
His derisive comment only strengthened my gut instinct that there is something very off about the timing of his run. This kind of front & center participation by his “former talk show host” wife adds more concern that the implication of his comment could be more closely applied to her, & to himself, than to Donald or Melania Trump.
That is especially true after the fantastical pre-announcement comments about a DeSantis Camelot - another off putting scenario that stirs the spidey senses.
The timing just smacks of a desperation for achieving all of the things he decried in his comment. Plus the huge amount of money invested in his campaign makes the association with his very wealthy backers even more questionable.
It also reminds of another extremely supportive political wife. Not so much Jacqueline Kennedy, as “Dr.” Jill Biden, and her obvious desire to become FLOTUS. We don’t need a “Camelot Casey”. There is an authentic Kennedy running on the Democrat half of the Uniparty ticket, if we should want to go that route.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/31/2023 12:25:19 PM (No. 1481604)
They have put him out there to keep PDJT out. If Casey is advising him, it explains Roger Stone’s remark about Lady Macbeth, who goaded her husband to kill the king.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
DVC 5/31/2023 1:37:43 PM (No. 1481675)
DM is extremely anti-Trump.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Daisymay 5/31/2023 1:38:38 PM (No. 1481678)
Well, in reading the posts below, I have decided I must not be up on today's standards. Years ago (I'm 82) it was thought a good thing when a President had a wife who was at her husband's side (even through the Primaries and Election). I don't remember anyone thinking it was a bad thing! Ron DeSantis and Casey are a couple in love, raising Three Small Children. They are Conservatives who go to Church on Sunday. He is a very educated man who served his country and doesn't have any women hidden away! I don't see why he is so hated! If Trump is the Man, who walks on Water, he will WIN. He is so confident of that he said he won't participate in the Debates. So, why all the nasty remarks about Casey DeSantis and her very qualified Husband? Why not just let them Campaign along with the Other Candidates and let the chips fall where they may! Who cares if Casey's very pretty Sundress was called a "Gown" (which it was not)! She looked lovely in it!
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/31/2023 2:01:20 PM (No. 1481705)
Many have been critical (and rightfully so) of Jill Biden’s obvious ambition and her steering of her husband. More than just the loyal and loving first lady by the president’s side. Now we have the prospect of another Jill. It should be of interest that she insisted on having the office in the governodr’s office that usually was for the governor’s chief of staff. One staffer remarked that he never made a decson without first consulting Casey. There is a great deal of information in the article linked at #17. Fine to read with skepticism, but a read is recommended.. There cannot be too much information in a presidential election. We need to know where the candidates are really coming from.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 5/31/2023 2:24:39 PM (No. 1481720)
Good grief! I guess according to some, Casey is supposed to stay home and not travel with her husband while he campaigns. I’m behind too because I didn’t realize it’s now a contest between Melanie and Casey. I could be wrong, but I bet both beautiful ladies would not like the things being said on social media. But, that’s what you get in politics. What a dirty business it is. Oh, I always wait to hear what Roger Stone has to say before I make up my mind.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
49 Ford 5/31/2023 2:32:31 PM (No. 1481729)
I'll be concerned about Casey when we see her leading Ron by the hand off the stage or podium.
#27, seems to me that a lot of folks here have a deep emotional investment in a 2016 redux, The Revenge of The Donald. A great movie script perhaps, but conditions change over time.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 5/31/2023 2:50:02 PM (No. 1481739)
Makeup meet shovel.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/31/2023 6:48:19 PM (No. 1481929)
This is for #31 from article linked at #17:
“I learned how to do my makeup from Ron DeSantis, and he learned from Casey,” Rep. Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida, told me in 2021. “He worked harder on his fundraising than anybody else,” said the aforementioned top congressional aide, “and he did it in conjunction a lot of times with Casey.” Those who worked for Ron DeSantis quickly deduced they in essence worked for her too. And it was clear she was not to be crossed. “She was looped in on every email and calendar invite,” a former staffer told Vanity Fair last year. “If Casey said jump, we would pull out the trampoline.”
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