
Casey DeSantis recounted a couple of humorous interactions between her husband, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, and their youngsters. Then she spoke in additional sober tones about her struggle in opposition to most cancers.
Vivek Ramaswamy introduced his 3-year-old son, Karthik, onstage and mentioned his Hindu religion.
And Nikki Haley, the previous governor of South Carolina, sitting beside her daughter, Rena, who lately married, stated she nonetheless remembered her as slightly lady “in pigtails.”
The Republican presidential candidates who spoke at a “religion and household” occasion on Saturday at Dordt College, an evangelical Christian college in Sioux Heart, Iowa, sought to current a kinder, gentler aspect of themselves, simply days after an acrimonious debate and little greater than a month earlier than the Iowa caucuses, the primary nominating contest.
The candidates got here to this city of simply over 8,000 folks on a snow-dusted plain in rural northwestern Iowa, fewer than 40 miles from South Dakota, to pitch themselves to the realm’s conservative voters and to hunt the endorsement of Consultant Randy Feenstra, the area’s in style Republican congressman. Mr. Feenstra and his spouse interviewed every candidate in entrance of about 400 neighborhood members and school college students on the B.J. Haan Auditorium, the place banners learn “Glory to God Alone.”