Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy spoke in person Friday about the impact miscarriages had on their families during a panel discussion in Iowa on Friday.
The Family Leader Thanksgiving Family Forum, hosted by an evangelical Christian group, offered DeSantis, Ramaswamy and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley a unique opportunity to discuss issues important to voters outside of sanctioned debates. the Republican National Committee.
While discussing abortion, DeSantis, 45, and Ramaswamy, 38, publicly revealed for the first time that their wives, Casey DeSantis and Apoorva Ramaswamy, had suffered miscarriages.
“We wanted to have a family and at first it didn’t happen that way,” DeSantis said. “We finally took a trip to Israel when I was a U.S. congressman and we literally went to Shiloh with the Hannah Prayer. We went to the Tomb of Ruth in Hebron – Ruth chapter 4, verse 13 – and we prayed. We prayed a lot to have a family and then, lo and behold, we came back to the United States and shortly after, we got pregnant, but unfortunately we lost that first baby,” DeSantis said.
DeSantis revealed that he and his wife lost their first child after Casey DeSantis suffered a miscarriage. Getty Images
“And, you know, it was kind of difficult because this is something that we had so many hopes and so many aspirations for,” he added. “But, you know, we just kept the faith. We continue praying. We knew there would be a path that God would lead us on and, lo and behold, you know, in no time we made it, we had our first girl and we didn’t stop after that.”
Sadly, Ramaswamy shared a similar experience.
He recalled being “ecstatic” when Apoorva became pregnant with her first child about halfway through her medical residency. The couple wrote letters to their unborn child “every night” during the pregnancy, hoping to “convey what stories of our parents and grandparents we wanted to tell.”
“About three and a half months later, you know, Apoorva, one day he woke up and said, ‘I’m bleeding.’ She had a miscarriage. We lost our first child. And that was the loss of a life. It was the loss of our family,” Ramaswamy said.
“After that he went through a state of depression and our faith is what helped us get through,” he added.
Ramaswamy told the Iowa crowd that his wife thought she had suffered a second miscarriage shortly after losing the couple’s first child. AP
Ramaswamy, fighting back tears, also spoke of how months later his wife thought she had suffered a second miscarriage, but doctors found a heartbeat and later their son, Karthik, was born.
The young man joined Ramaswamy on stage after telling the story and remained on his father’s lap for the rest of the event.
The forum offered a unique opportunity for candidates to discuss issues together outside of RNC-sanctioned debates.
The three White House hopefuls have increasingly traded barbs against each other as the Republican field shrinks, but there were no signs of lingering tensions Friday.
The last time the candidates shared the stage, at the third Republican presidential primary debate in Miami, a visibly enraged Haley mocked Ramaswamy as “scum” after the biotech entrepreneur invoked the former ambassador’s adult daughter. before the United Nations to emphasize the social issue. TikTok media platform.
During the same debate, Ramaswamy called for the resignation of Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel and attacked debate co-moderator Kristen Welker, prompting Haley to comment during a podcast interview on Tuesday that Ramaswamy “I might have a problem with girls.”
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