Classic Casey DeSantis ad rebooted for 2024

Casey RPOF ad
Will the spot work twice? That's the new super PAC's stretch run bet.

The New York Times reports that a super PAC supporting of Ron DeSantis is bringing back a powerful spot from the Governor’s First Lady.

The spot from the “Good Fight” super PAC features Casey DeSantis discussing her recovery from breast cancer and the Governor standing by her through that trial. Per the Times, the spot is “nearly identical to one that was broadcast during his re-election campaign for governor last year” with some new images added, such as DeSantis children at the Field of Dreams park in Iowa.

2022’s “That Is Who Ron DeSantis Is,” featured First Lady Casey DeSantis “as she shares with Floridians, for the first time, the behind-the-scenes story of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ support through her battle with breast cancer.”

The ad was released a year after Mrs. DeSantis’ diagnosis, which kicked off months of recovery and uncertainty for the First Family before her recovery.

“If you want to know who Ron DeSantis really is, when I was diagnosed with cancer, and I was facing the battle for my life, he was the dad who took care of my children when I couldn’t,” Mrs. DeSantis asserted last year.

See the old spot below, and the new one in the coming days on television.

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

  • Dont Say FLA

    December 23, 2023 at 1:21 pm

    Seems like ole’ Ron might have learned how to put toys together.

    But only if Ron tending to the kids were at all true, of course.

    Which, being unable to assemble a child’s toy, clearly his responsibility for tending the children is, at best, exaggerated.

    Poor Ron. He’s just not bright enough to realize people line up his claims and inspect them for consistency and continuity.

    Ron DeSantis, he just keeps failing inspection.

  • Marvin M.

    December 23, 2023 at 1:31 pm

    I wondered when this first came out why she said Ron was the Dad who took care of “my children”. I literally thought her kids were from a previous marriage, until I looked it up.
    Turns out they do happen to be Ron’s kids as well, so … why didn’t you say “our children”, Mrs. DeSantis?
    And why the hell do you act like it’s so amazing that a man should take care of his own children when the mom can’t do it because she is exhausted from trying to beat cancer? He helped you. Terrific! He did what a normal human husband and father should do!
    Meanwhile, millions of Floridians are struggling without half of the resources you had in addition to that helpful husband.
    Might be nice, for example, if your husband would expand Medicaid, so people who don’t make a ton of money, but more than what’s allowed by Medicaid as it stands, can get at least some in home care for, I don’t know, say a person who is bed bound because a debilitating stroke.
    Deeds speak louder than words. You can tell us all day long how much Ron DeSantis really loves and cares about his family, but he has not legislatively shown any extension of that care to Floridians and I can only surmise from that that he would not extend any care to the citizens of the rest of the states if elected president. So there is no way I am voting for him.
    And from the polls, it looks like a lot of people in a lot of states agree with me.

    • Michael K

      December 23, 2023 at 8:12 pm

      Spot on.

    • My Take

      December 24, 2023 at 8:52 am

      I’ll bet even Neanderthal fathers lent a bit of a hand while their wife-mate recovered from a dinosaur bite.

  • Sonja Fitch

    December 23, 2023 at 4:00 pm

    Omg this is creepy! Omg! A family usually does the best it can in crisis. This is gross. The sympathy vote! Omg!

    • SteveHC

      December 26, 2023 at 3:43 pm

      Yep, that is what it is. Pretty pathetic, but it works with the Hallmark and Lifetime channel crowd.

  • Ron Forrest Ron

    December 23, 2023 at 5:10 pm

    Ron might care about his own family in whatever way he is somewhat capable of, but he sure don’t care about your family or mine.

  • Ron lies

    December 23, 2023 at 7:53 pm

    And he got vaccinated against CORONAVIRUS to protect you and your family too.

  • Michael K

    December 23, 2023 at 7:58 pm

    I’m sorry – but Ron wants to erase “certain” families, including mine – so why should I care about his? And how does this matter one iota in this election? She strikes me as someone who can shed tears on command to “endear sympathy” – but on substance, her husband is a cold, calculating, and uncaring person who has inflicted great harm on Florida citizens.

  • Earl Pitts "The "REAL LEADER" of Our Great Nation" American

    December 23, 2023 at 7:59 pm

    Good evening America,
    REMEMBER: IT’S NOT “NEWS” UNTIL EARL PITTS AMERICAN “WEIGHS IN”.
    However my Patriots, Earl has gotten “INTO THE WHISKEY” with “FIREBALL CHASERS” tonight.
    And much like driving sober is a “Sage Idea” to aspire to:
    The dispensing of “SAGE POLITICAL WISDOM” is another thing which is best when done with a “Sober” and sound mind.
    Therefore I, Earl Pitts American, leave you “Dook 4 Brains Lefty’s” tonight in order to get some “SAGE REST”.
    Please try to behave while I rest up to allow the “Sage Whiskey” its oppurtunitty to “Relax My Sphincter”.
    I will return tomorrow and any of you Dook 4 Brains that fail to maintain a professional on line presence here at F. P. for our Beloved Host Peter will be subject to a Stern Chastizement From Me, Earl Pitts American
    Thank you America,
    EPA

  • My Take

    December 24, 2023 at 1:25 am

    The alien space monsters did a pretty good job with this AI–designed 3-D printed biobot. It is the personality and “reality” circuitry and programming that needs some work.

    • Dont Say FLA

      December 26, 2023 at 3:08 pm

      People are saying Casey bought an old animatronic Dopey somebody stole out the dumpster behind Disney and sold at their yard sale.

      Casey put a suit on it, high heels, called it Rhonda, and here we all are with it programmed to pretend it’s Governor of Florida but it went haywire and it’s pretending it’s running for President of the USA bc it always wanted to be in the Hall of Presidents, not just an intellectually disabled dwarf.

  • Elmo

    December 24, 2023 at 8:21 am

    Desperate times call for desperate measures.

  • Tittie Grifter

    December 24, 2023 at 7:43 pm

    My wife had boobies issues several years back, so Sympathy vote for me based on your sympathy for her! Because that’s all I got. I pray this finally sticks to the wall for me

  • Ron Doesn’t Like Crowds 🧩

    December 26, 2023 at 4:23 pm

    Time to make the patient comfortable.

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