DeSantis is a real nasty guy and he's got a press secretary to match.

[Fla Dem]

If DeSantis is the Republican nominee against Biden, it's going to be down and dirty. DeSantis is an A-hole and has pushed so many far right policies, he makes Greg Abbott look like an amateur.

DeSantis spokeswoman Christina Pushaw makes sure reporters feel the burn
Known for her aggressive Twitter comments and brusque treatment of the media, the Florida governor’s press secretary has used taunts to solidify a tough image
By Paul Farhi
July 27, 2022 at 6:00 a.m. EDT

When Florida Republicans held their annual conference last week, party leaders decided to bar a large swath of the press corps from the event. While the hosts declined to discuss their reasoning, one unelected official applauded it.

“My message to [journalists] is to try crying about it,” tweeted Christina Pushaw, whose job as spokeswoman for Gov. Ron DeSantis is to communicate with reporters. “Then go to kickboxing and have a margarita.”

The derisive tone was typical of Pushaw, 31, a state employee who earns $120,000 a year. In the 14 months since joining DeSantis’s staff, she has transformed the typically button-down role of gubernatorial press secretary into something like a running public brawl — with Twitter as her blunt-force weapon. Her usual targets: Democrats, the news media and anyone else she deems insufficiently supportive of DeSantis’s agenda and her own conservative politics.

She has knocked The Washington Post as “the Pravda of DC,” implied that Chelsea Clinton is “a grifter,” and referred to President Biden as “a seemingly senile 79-year-old aspiring dictator.” She invoked a notorious antisemitic trope about the Jewish Rothschild family while criticizing pandemic-related restrictions in November. (She deleted that tweet after describing it as “an attempt at sarcasm.”) In January, she questioned whether a neo-Nazi demonstration in Orlando was organized by Democratic staffers. (She walked that one back, too.)

Pushaw’s attacks on national news organizations and reporters can not only be blistering (“slobbering regime sycophants”), but they can also run on for hundreds of tweets and retweets — once prompting Twitter to suspend her account temporarily for “abusive” behavior.

She has also been credited — or blamed — for helping make the incendiary term “groomer” mainstream in GOP circles. In early March, she used the word, once reserved to describe pedophile behavior, to characterize anyone who opposed a DeSantis-favored bill restricting discussions of sexual orientation and gender in schools. “If you’re against the Anti-Grooming Bill, you are probably a groomer or at least you don’t denounce the grooming of 4-8 year old children,” she tweeted.


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[louis-t]

1. Somebody show her the list

of Republican child molesters.

[Fla Dem]

2. You're right and evangelical pastors.

[genxlib]

3. Get used to seeing her

She is going to be a fixture though the next three years.

She fits so perfectly in the modern GOP; aggressively nasty and fact challenged.

With DeSantis inevitably making a run at the Presidency we are going to see a lot of her.

The only good thing is that what works in the Primary will hopefully turn people off in the general elections. I'm hoping she shows her ass enough to be a liability.

[whathehell]

4. I'm shocked -- shocked, I tell ya!

He seems like Trump, but smarter..I would fear him as much or more as president.

[Funtatlaguy]

5. Mean, nasty, cruel, moronic, hypocritical- the modern GOP.