{"id":39147,"date":"2025-04-18T14:40:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T14:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/18\/how-a-scandal-could-knock-the-wind-out-of-the-florida-first-ladys-political-sails\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T14:40:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T14:40:50","slug":"how-a-scandal-could-knock-the-wind-out-of-the-florida-first-ladys-political-sails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/18\/how-a-scandal-could-knock-the-wind-out-of-the-florida-first-ladys-political-sails\/","title":{"rendered":"How a scandal could knock the wind out of the Florida first lady\u2019s political sails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A charity controversy and GOP unrest threaten Casey DeSantis\u2019s chances of succeeding her husband as governor in 2026<\/p>\n<p>It had the hallmarks of a dynasty in the making. When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ron-desantis\">Ron DeSantis<\/a> was asked in February whom he would like to see succeed him as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/florida\">Florida<\/a> governor when he is termed out of office in 2027, his answer was unequivocal: his wife, Casey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no question about it,\u201d he told a press conference in Tampa.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/18\/florida-first-lady-casey-desantis-governor-charity-scandal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A charity controversy and GOP unrest threaten Casey DeSantis\u2019s chances of succeeding her husband as governor in 2026 It had the hallmarks of a dynasty in the making. When Ron DeSantis was asked in February whom he would like to see succeed him as Florida governor when he is termed out of office in 2027, &#8230; <a title=\"How a scandal could knock the wind out of the Florida first lady\u2019s political sails\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/18\/how-a-scandal-could-knock-the-wind-out-of-the-florida-first-ladys-political-sails\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about How a scandal could knock the wind out of the Florida first lady\u2019s political sails\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}