Casey DeSantis tells tale of pulling out a ‘sleeper sofa’ during Iowa campaign visit

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The misadventures of the First Family continue to be anecdote fodder.

Casey DeSantis is telling travel stories while on the road in Iowa, spotlighting the antics of the First Family.

During a Never Back Down stop in Winneshiek County, Florida’s First Lady explained how she had to pull out the “sleeper sofa” as the family of five makes its way through the Hawkeye State.

“So last night we get in and I end up, you know, it takes me a while before I go to bed. Like, I don’t understand how guys can just go to bed and that’s it,” Mrs. DeSantis recounted. “It’s like flipping a light switch with me. I’ve got to go through a process. I’ve got the contacts … you’ve got to wash your face … yada yada yada.”

The First Lady said she had a surprise waiting for her when she was done.

“I come out and I look in the bed, and who is in the bed in the hotel room? The one bed in the hotel room? You have Dad, Mason, Mamie, Madison, and it’s not that big of a bed and everybody has passed out. And I said, well, this is fun, you know. So I ended up, we end up pulling up the sleeper sofa and it’s the kids are having so much fun because they love hotels.”

That wasn’t the only lighthearted nugget from the First Lady, however, who continues to use anecdotes from parenthood to connect with crowds on the road. She noted that the family made “so many waffles this morning,” and touched on the challenge of keeping the kids in line.

“Before we were coming out here, we were behind the curtain and we were having a very robust conversation as to why we need to keep our hands to ourselves because you had the 5-year-old who was touching the 6-year-old who was touching the 3-year-old,” Mrs. DeSantis quipped.

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has been the Northeast Florida correspondent for Florida Politics since 2014. His work also can be seen in the Washington Post, the New York Post, the Washington Times, and National Review, among other publications. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski


15 comments

  • Peggy

    August 4, 2023 at 10:57 am

    Then she sipped some red sangria out of a tumbler labeled “Mommy Juice” in another desperate attempt to seem relatable.

    • Neva Rae Powers

      August 6, 2023 at 6:41 am

      Good one!

  • RutRoh

    August 4, 2023 at 12:13 pm

    “We” ended up on the sofa couch…..Dad and kids were in the bed.

  • Dr. Franklin Waters

    August 4, 2023 at 12:27 pm

    I’m interpreting this as: “We had another big fight and didn’t want to sleep in the same bed.”

  • DeSantis has taking a page out of the Nazi playbook

    August 4, 2023 at 1:41 pm

    like who cares

    • Michael

      August 4, 2023 at 3:33 pm

      HELLO

  • Michael K

    August 4, 2023 at 3:36 pm

    From private jet to Motel 6. Yeah, right.

  • D P

    August 4, 2023 at 4:01 pm

    Casey has a problem using words like we and I. When you live with an idiot you tend to become like one.

  • Dont Say FLA

    August 4, 2023 at 4:36 pm

    Awww, they used a sleeper sofa in a motel. Maybe they ARE qualified for the White House after all. /s

  • Ann

    August 4, 2023 at 6:58 pm

    She gave a speech in Panama City and said “you have no idea how difficult it is raising kids in the mansion”

  • Paige

    August 4, 2023 at 8:43 pm

    Her nickname is Karen she knows better to were her princess dress

  • Ian

    August 5, 2023 at 11:18 am

    This is newsworthy somehow?

  • Beth

    August 5, 2023 at 12:58 pm

    If in some alternate universe I was married to a corrupt racist sexist pig I would sleep on the couch every night. Or even better divorce the violence touting creep and keep him away from the children.

  • John Barron

    August 6, 2023 at 4:13 am

    This is pure raw unfiltered desperation in action. The DeSancti are DeDone!

  • Plane Folks

    August 6, 2023 at 6:04 am

    I had to sleep on the $19,000,000 plane.

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