EXCLUSIVE: ‘They went their separate ways’: Karen Pence gives HER take on Mike’s ‘breakup’ with Trump – and hopes they can reunite on the debate stage

Karen Pence gave her take on Friday about her husband, former Vice President Mike Pence,’s public breakup with former President Donald Trump and said she hoped they could reunite on the debate stage.

The former second lady spent Thursday afternoon and Friday at the Iowa State Fair meeting would-be caucus attendees as the former vice president pursued the White House.

After shaking hands and flipping chops on Friday morning, Ms. Pence spoke to DailyMail.com as she took in a big bee and honey show at the fair’s John Deere Agriculture Building.

“It was just a disagreement, they went their separate ways,” she said when asked if the divorce between Trump and Pence had been hurtful. “We look forward to seeing him hopefully on the debate stage and looking forward to the debate,” she said of Trump.

“I hope he comes,” she said, in comments that might sting a bit.

Karen Pence (left) flips chops on the Iowa Pork Producers display next to former Vice President Mike Pence (right) Friday at the Iowa State Fair

At the Des Moines Register’s Political Soapbox Thursday and again at Governor Kim Reynolds’ Fair-Side chats, Karen Pence talked about how she wanted to see bunnies.

“I want to see the bees, I want to see the art show, and maybe if you have rabbits, I’d like to see the bunnies,” Karen Pence told the Soapbox crowd on Thursday.

“Okay, I won’t,” the former VP said with a laugh.

The couple had kept a famous rabbit, Marlon Bundo, as a pet when Mike Pence was in office.

Their daughter Charlotte wrote a book about the rabbit.

That book was parodied by one of comedian John Oliver’s writers for his HBO show.

In that version, Marlon was gay and courted a male rabbit named Wesley.

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez (left), who is also a presidential candidate, takes a photo with Mike and Karen Pence at the Iowa State Fair

Karen Pence spent Friday afternoon at the honey producers’ exhibit in the John Deere Agriculture Building at the Iowa State Fair

Mike Pence opposes same-sex marriage, citing his Christian faith.

Karen Pence was unlucky at the fair Friday, because that was not the day rabbits were displayed.

When asked if she was disappointed, she told DailyMail.com that she and Mike had seen bunnies that morning.

“We took a walk along the river this morning and we saw eight bunnies, so Mike said, ‘Well, at least you saw bunnies when you were in Iowa,’ so I did,” Karen Pence said.

The Pence family does not currently have a rabbit, but there could be another Bundo in the future.

“I would really like to have another rabbit, but they need a lot — you have to be home,” she said.

“Probably, yes, we would have a first rabbit,” she replied when asked if getting another rabbit was a White House promise from the Pence family.

With no rabbits to watch, the former second lady instead took home honey products.

She explained that during the VP years, the Pences had bees at the Indiana governor’s mansion and again at their home at the Naval Observatory.

‘When I became second lady, the first thing I asked was if there was a beehive. The White House has a beehive. So we brought a beehive to the vice president’s residence,” she said.

“It was just one of the things my staff and I did while traveling with the vice president or on our own,” she continued. ‘We always stopped to see the beekeepers in whatever country we were in – it was fascinating how the honey tastes so different.

She said the mission was to promote “healthy bees.”

“We didn’t want to get into the whole scientific ‘are they endangered or not?'” she said.

“So it was just one of my little initiatives, so now every time I go somewhere I want to talk to them and they’re just doing a great job here,” she gushed.