{"id":1183818,"date":"2022-01-03T14:49:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T19:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1183818"},"modified":"2022-01-03T14:49:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T19:49:20","slug":"ron-desantis-to-critics-who-accused-him-of-vacationing-during-wifes-cancer-treatments-i-guess-i-should-have-been-at-the-beach-in-delaware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ron-desantis-to-critics-who-accused-him-of-vacationing-during-wifes-cancer-treatments-i-guess-i-should-have-been-at-the-beach-in-delaware\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron DeSantis to Critics Who Accused Him of Vacationing During Wife&#039;s Cancer Treatments: &#039;I Guess I Should Have Been at the Beach in Delaware&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">48<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fron-desantis-to-critics-who-accused-him-of-vacationing-during-wifes-cancer-treatments-i-guess-i-should-have-been-at-the-beach-in-delaware%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1183818&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Ron-Casey-DeSantis-ap-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) responded to critics Monday, including&nbsp;potential Democrat gubernatorial challenger Nikki Fried (D), who accused him of being absent when, in reality, he was attending his wife\u2019s cancer treatments during the holiday break.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guess I should have been at the beach in Delaware. They would have been really happy about that,\u201d he quipped, referencing President Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/27\/joe-biden-off-to-beach-admitting-no-federal-solution-coronavirus\/\">beach vacation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>DeSantis noted that they put out a schedule as well, but his critics assume the governor is not doing anything if he is not holding a big press conference. On Wednesday, when there was nothing on the calendar, DeSantis said he caught word that he was apparently on vacation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I just looked at my wife. I\u2019m like, going to the hospital with you is not a vacation for you, I know that. And it\u2019s not a vacation; this is something that as a husband, I think that I should be doing,\u201d he said:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I have accompanied her to all her chemotherapy treatments, and she\u2019s there for a long time. I\u2019m there most of the time. It\u2019s a draining thing. When she\u2019s done with it, you know, it\u2019s not something that\u2019s great to see. And so, I just think a lot of people, particularly people who have gone through breast cancer treatments, the notion that that would be considered a vacation, I think, is offensive to a lot of those folks.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Casey, who announced her breast cancer diagnosis in October, is \u201cnot being in the fetal position the whole time,\u201d adding that she is \u201cgoing to end up good on the other end of it.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>DeSantis ultimately said the critiques were \u201cdumb\u201d and not effective.<\/p>\n<p>When you\u2019re in the political arena, this is the reality with people who don\u2019t shoot straight, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Fried, Florida\u2019s agricultural Commissioner, knocked DeSantis over the weekend, accusing him of being absent amid the omicron variant of the virus, prompting a correction from DeSantis\u2019s press secretary as well as others:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"640\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">But if someone you love gets cancer, you wouldn&#8217;t show up to their treatments? Wow.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christina Pushaw \ud83d\udc0a (@ChristinaPushaw) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristinaPushaw\/status\/1477150768503341057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Gov. 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