Politico on Friday released a profile on Ron DeSantis’s wife, Casey DeSantis. The profile said that the 42-year-old was “the power behind the throne.” This prompted many to ask if Casey had a role to play in the governor’s eradication of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” programs from Florida institutions.

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Who is Casey DeSantis?

Jill Casey DeSantis is a former news reporter for the American media, former television host, and the state’s first lady. She is the wife of Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis.

Family-

She was born in Zanesville, Ohio, as the second child of Jeanne Caponigro, a speech pathologist, and Robert Black, an ophthalmologist and retired United States Air Force officer. She was involved in track, basketball, and student government in high school and served on the homecoming court.

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She earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics with a French minor from the College of Charleston before graduating in August 2003.

She presented the Golf Channel shows On The Tee and PGA Tour Today early in her career. Additionally, she worked as an anchor and local newscaster for Jacksonville, Florida’s WJXT, a CBS station. Casey created and moderated The Chat in 2014, a roundtable panel discussion talk program that lasted an hour and aired on Tegna’s Jacksonville stations WTLV (NBC) and WJXX (ABC).

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2018’s Florida Politics magazine referred to Casey as “one of the most recognizable faces on Jacksonville television, with long runs at two local news operations.”

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In the spring of 2006, Casey and Ron Desantis first connected while striking golf balls at the University of North Florida’s driving range. DeSantis described her in his most recent book as having stylish golf apparel and producing excellent clubhead speed.

At a Beef ‘O’ Brady’s later that day, they went on their first date. The younger of two daughters of an optometrist and a speech pathologist, Jill Casey Black grew up in Troy, Ohio, a tiny, predominantly white, conservative town close to Dayton.

In September 2009, they married at Disney World. On the day of their celebration in Epcot’s Italian pavilion, it rained.

Casey and Ron have have three children together, two daughters and a son.

According to a Politico feature on the former television personality , she has long been seen as an absolute rockstar of a political spouse, a not so “secret weapon,” even something like to his saving grace.

Politico states according to hundreds of interviews conducted over the past few years and more than 60 more conducted with a variety of former staffers, current backers and donors, state and federal lawmakers, as well as Florida lobbyists and political experts, she is unusually important and involved in the DeSantis political project.

“She is every bit as involved in Ron’s rise as Ron is himself,” and “the power behind the throne,” as per a Florida congressperson and a Republican lobbyist.

They believe that because she is reluctant to give that position to almost anybody else, she is and has always been by far his most significant adviser.

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They claim that she gets caught up in both his good and bad decisions. One specific was during the first year of his administration ran over many then as a naive error and appears to them now as a potentially fatal mistake — the ouster of Susie Wiles, the reputable operative who had helped former President Donald Trump win Florida in 2016, then helped DeSantis, 44, get elected governor in 2018, and is now running Donald Trump’s rival White House campaign.

Roger Stone, the legendary political saboteur who is both a DeSantis foe and a long-time Trump supporter, remarked in a Telegram message last autumn, “how much Ron DeSantis’ wife Casey is like Lady Macbeth?”

Breast Cancer-

Ron DeSantis had announced that Casey was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2021.

Casey completed her final chemotherapy treatment in 2022 and “responded very well,” to all treatments and was cancer free.

The governor stated during a press conference at South Florida State College in Bowling Green, “It’s not the most fun thing to see someone go through, but at the end of the day, she’s fought incredibly hard.”