Casey DeSantis breaks down in tears over her breast cancer battle

Casey DeSantis broke down in tears on Thursday when she talked about her struggle with breast cancer and admitted that her three children still don’t know she had the disease. ‘About a year and a half ago, I didn’t know whether I would see my kids graduate from kindergarten,’ the Florida first lady told Fox News, referring to her October 2021 diagnosis. With her husband Ron DeSantis at her side, Casey choked up as she described telling her children – Madison, Mason and Mamie – she had hurt her arm because she didn’t want them to know she had cancer. The interview, which aired on the popular morning show ‘Fox & Friends,’ was a joint endeavor between Casey and Ron DeSantis but it was the first lady who did much of the talking.

She described how her husband had supported her through her treatment, talked about his love for his country, and argued that he is the best person to be the next president of the United States. She also defended herself against criticism that she is a ‘Walmart Melania’ and ‘America’s Karen.’ But it was talking about her struggle with breast cancer that brought the first lady to tears. ‘The hard part, for me, I had a four, three, and one-year-old in the house and it is like very, very difficult when you look at your children and they don’t know,’ she said. Her husband patted her leg as she struggled to talk about her five months of treatment, which included multiple rounds of chemo, radiation and surgery.

‘To this day, they still don’t know, they have no idea what mama went through. As a matter of fact, I went through six rounds of chemotherapy, six weeks of radiation and three surgeries. I couldn’t use my left arm. I told them I hurt my arm, because I didn’t want to tell them,’ she admitted. She wiped away tears as she described how Ron was at her side the entire time. ‘Through God’s grace, I’m here and this guy helped me more than he will ever realize,’ she said. The Florida governor said the couple appreciated the support they received during her treatment. ‘We got a lot of outpouring of support when we made it public. People were praying for her,’ he told Fox News. After five months of chemotherapy and surgery, Ron announced in January 2022 that Casey was cancer free. The couple married in 2010. Their youngest child, Mamie, was the first baby to be born in the Florida governor’s mansion in more than 50 years. A year after her initial cancer diagnosis, Casey took to the television cameras to talk about her illness.

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Seated on a couch in the governor’s mansion, wearing a purple sweater and jeans, she looked into the camera and described how Ron had helped her get through her treatment. ‘I was facing the battle for my life. He was the dad who took care of my children when I couldn’t. He was there to pick me off of the ground when I literally could not stand. He was there to fight for me when I didn’t have the strength to fight for myself,’ she said. That campaign ad, which was blasted across the state of Florida and caught fire on social media, is credited with helping DeSantis win a second term in the Florida governor’s mansion. She told Fox News, in the interview what aired Thursday, that she was made the ad because she was tired of seeing the attacks on her husband’s character. ‘You just need to tell it from the heart, I felt the need to do that, I was so tired of the hits he was taking, these false accusations about his character,’ she said. Her joint interview with Ron came as he struggles to gain traction in the polls in his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.

The Florida governor trails rival Donald Trump by 33 points in the RealClearPolitics polling average. The former president also leads in the key early-voting states of Iowa , New Hampshire, and South Carolina. Casey DeSantis took the lead in talking about why her husband should be president, making the case for his candidacy. She described her husband as the ‘love of my life’ and father of her children. She also talked about how he joined the military after the September 11th terrorist attacks and made the case for why he is the best person to be president of the United States. ‘He’s the love of my life, the father of my six, five and three year old and the fighter we need to turn this around. I make assumption people know who he is. He was a JAG officer and deployed to Iraq with seal team one for troop surge on the ground that got the star for meritorious service. He saw 9/11 and wanted to give back to the country that had given him so much. He served in the United States military. It says a lot about who he is and how he views the country,’ she said.

She also pushed back against her own critics, who have described her as a Lady McBeth like figure who secretly runs the Florida governor’s office and the DeSantis campaign. She’s even been described as a ‘ Wal-Mart Melania’ and America’s Karen. ‘The corporate media got one thing right: I do shop at Walmart,’ she said. ‘They call you names to get you to back down. Number one thing, we will not back down when it comes to our family,’ Casey said. In the interview, the two also talked about how they met. The duo – both golf lovers – met at a driving range at the University of Northern Florida. She has told the story many times: she was working on her swing and, out of golf balls, she looked around to see anyone had left extra buckets of balls around the tees. Ron DeSantis, who was practicing nearby, thought she was checking him out. They started talking. The rest is dating – and political – history. ‘Our son and daughter are getting into golf, which is cool because that is how mom and dad met,’ Casey told Fox News. Both of the DeSantis’s talked about their children several times in the interview. The kids often join their parents on the campaign trail. ‘There’s really no two days that – that are the same,’ Ron DeSantis said. ‘Our kids, of course, are on summer vacation so they’re not in school. We just had – my son just did FSU baseball camp. We did tennis camp with the girls. But at the end of the day, it’s just kind of like a team effort. We bring them with us on the campaign trail as much as we can. And we just want to spend as much family time as possible.’

And Casey DeSantis recently launched ‘Mamas for DeSantis’ – a national version of the group she started in Florida to help her husband win a second term as governor. ‘It’s one thing when your policies come out after us – the mamas. It’s another thing when they come after our children. And that’s when the claws come out,’ she said. The Florida first lady has become a prominent public face and voice for Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign. In her talk in Johnston, Iowa, Casey vowed to crisscross the country to help her husband win the Republican presidential nomination and the White House. ‘As long as I have breath in my body I will fight for Ron DeSantis – not just because he’s my husband; that is part of it – but it’s because I believe in him,’ she said. ‘If you want somebody to go up to Washington DC to clean house, to be able to put this country back on the trajectory where we are talking about – our rights coming up from our creator and our government being put in place to protect our rights that are ours, he is the man to do it and if I have to crisscross this country, I’ll do it,’ she vowed. Read the full story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12319945/Casey-DeSantis-breaks-tears-opening-battle-breast-cancer-admits-three-children-dont-know-went-praises-strong-support-husband-Ron.html?ito=msngallery

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