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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,223 posts) Sat Nov 12, 2022, 02:15 PM Nov 2022

Ron DeSantis hopes his wife can charm people into voting for him for president.

Ron DeSantis’ Wife Begins Her Stealth Campaign to Take Over the Country

After Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ easy victory for a second term on Tuesday, chatter about a possible 2024 presidential run as the GOP candidate hit new heights. If you’re a right-leaning media outlet like the New York Post, your next step is clear: Time to get to work humanizing this fella. This impulse is likely what brought us a Wednesday article headlined “Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ not-so-secret political weapon — his wife, Casey.” The article features some predictable gushing over Casey, a mother of three, former news anchor, and recent cancer survivor, who, it probably doesn’t hurt, is quite pretty too, bearing a bit of a resemblance to television presenter Maria Menounos.

The Daily Mail also chose to highlight Florida’s first lady this week, albeit with one of its trademark convoluted headlines, calling her an “emotional tuning fork” with “Nancy Reagan–style influence.” The National Review joined the fun with a blog post titled “Casey DeSantis Is the Greatest Political Mind in Modern History,” though I would be remiss not to note that it seemed to be somewhat tongue-in-cheek. Fox News’ website was a little less obvious in its fawning, running an article called “Who is Casey DeSantis? Get to know the First Lady of Florida.” Taken all together, the message is clear: Now that Gov. DeSantis is ascendant—maybe!—the soft-launching of his wife and marriage as a national preoccupation begins.

Though Casey DeSantis has only received a smattering of coverage in the national press before this week, the broad strokes of her background have trickled out over the years: The 42-year-old grew up in Ohio and attended the College of Charleston in South Carolina, where she was on the equestrian team. After graduating, she moved to Jacksonville, Florida, to work in broadcast journalism, where she was by all accounts successful—she became an anchor and earned an Emmy nomination. One oft-repeated detail that almost sounds too good to be true is that she met her future husband while golfing. They got married at Disney World (how could they have know it would become a future political foe?), and a few years later, in 2012, Ron was elected to Congress.

Casey apparently stopped working in journalism during Ron’s first gubernatorial run in 2018—can’t be an enemy of the people, right? Her political aspirations for herself and her husband are reportedly grand: Earlier this year, a former colleague of hers remembered an exchange with a shared colleague in Vanity Fair: “I remember I once said, ‘Casey wants to be a senator’s wife.’ And he said, ‘No, she fully intends on being a president’s wife.’ ”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ron-desantis-wife-begins-her-stealth-campaign-to-take-over-the-country/ar-AA141X1y

She might bring him the incel vote but I don't know too many people who vote for a candidate based on how attractive the candidate or their spouse is.