Florida’s first lady, Casey DeSantis, seemingly dropped a teeny, tiny clue as to whether she is going to run for the governor’s seat in 2026, which is the end of her husband Gov. Ron Desantis’ last term. A lot of speculation has been put forward about the possibility of her being the next occupant of the governor’s mansion with reporting saying that her husband actually wants her to be his successor.
Since they are in lockstep with their values and principles, if the first lady were to win the gubernatorial race, there’s little doubt the kind of conservative policies we’re currently seeing in Florida would continue.
Mrs. DeSantis was giving a speech at Florida International University when she was asked point blank if she was planning to run.
“Well, I would say one thing. To quote the late, great Yogi Berra, ‘When you come to a fork in the road, take it,'” she replied.
“You guys can read into that,” Governor DeSantis said right after, according to TheBlaze. “Look, I’ve had people coming up to me for years, begging to get her in the fray, because I think you see with her presentation. … She’s passionate, she’s articulate, she’s smart. She’s got rock-solid values.”
DeSantis recounted how the late Rush Limbaugh once told him that he was always concerned about Republican wives pulling their husbands to the left on issues. However, Limbaugh added that he had no such concerns about Casey because, he told Gov. DeSantis, “she’s more conservative than you.”
DeSantis went on to praise his wife and the work she has done as first lady to tackle behavioral health, substance abuse, and child welfare issues within the state. If the first lady does enter the race, it will once again set up a brutal primary between the DeSantis side and Trump side, since President Trump has already endorsed Rep. Byron Donalds (R) for the position.
When the Florida Republican governor was asked for his thoughts about Donalds tossing his hat in the gubernatorial race, he responded by saying his focus right now is on helping to fulfill Trump’s America First agenda. One way he’s doing that is through mass deportations.
“I want to focus today, not on the ’26 election, but on vindicating the ’24 election by showing that we’re going to get this job done here,” DeSantis said.
“You have these elections, and then people start talking about new elections. Why don’t we actually get something done based on the previous election? And I think President Trump deserves all Republicans in particular to be supporting those efforts. That’s what we’re doing here,” he explained.
I think either Donalds or Mrs. DeSantis would be excellent in the role as governor so I don’t see how we lose either way. We need to keep Florida conservative so that whoever runs for the White House in 2026 can count on taking the state and its electoral votes.