{"id":1572208,"date":"2022-07-26T17:52:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T21:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1572208"},"modified":"2022-07-26T17:52:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T21:52:28","slug":"try-crying-about-it-desantis-spokesperson-calls-on-reporters-barred-from-gop-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/try-crying-about-it-desantis-spokesperson-calls-on-reporters-barred-from-gop-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Try Crying About It\u2019: DeSantis Spokesperson Calls on Reporters Barred From GOP Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Ftry-crying-about-it-desantis-spokesperson-calls-on-reporters-barred-from-gop-summit%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=1572208&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--><p>Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis\u2019s press secretary Christina Pushaw sent a message to liberal reporters who were not invited to a GOP convention in the Sunshine State: \u201cTry crying about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Republican Party\u2019s annual <a href=\"https:\/\/sunshinesummit.org\/\">Sunshine Summit<\/a> came to its big election-year gathering in Hollywood over the past weekend, featuring keynote speakers, panel discussions, Republican primary debates, and a \u201cVictory Dinner\u201d headlined by DeSantis.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike previous events, the now invite-only event shut down access to some mainstream media, including the Washington Post and the New York Times, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tallahassee.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2022\/07\/21\/donald-trump-ron-desantis-speak-florida-republicans-not-open-media\/10122197002\/\">Tallahassee Democrat.<\/a> The move sparked complaints from those excluded from the press list.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has come to my attention that some liberal media activists are mad because they aren\u2019t allowed into #SunshineSummit this weekend,\u201d said DeSantis spokeswoman Christina Pushaw via a July 22 Twitter post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy message to them is to try crying about it. Then go to kickboxing and have a margarita. And write the same hit piece you were gonna write anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It has come to my attention that some liberal media activists are mad because they aren\u2019t allowed into <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SunshineSummit?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SunshineSummit<\/a> this weekend. My message to them is to try crying about it. Then go to kickboxing and have a margarita. And write the same hit piece you were gonna write anyway.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christina Pushaw \ud83d\udc0a \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@ChristinaPushaw) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristinaPushaw\/status\/1550312275457851394?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pushaw\u2019s comments hint at a January quote from former White House press secretary Jen Psaki upon the Senate\u2019s failure to pass <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/senate-to-take-up-election-reform-bill-on-jan-18_4212945.html\">voting rights legislation<\/a>, which aimed to expand voting access and counter restrictive voting rights legislation that meant to ensure election integrity, passed in Republican states after 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>During her then-appearance on ABC\u2019s \u201cThe View,\u201d Psaki <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therecount\/status\/1484568330967134213?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1484612749480972289%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es3_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsweek.com%2Fpsaki-mocked-telling-those-upset-voting-rights-have-margarita-keep-fighting-1671786\">encouraged<\/a> supporters to \u201cgo to a kickboxing class\u201d and \u201chave a margarita\u201d over the weekend to relieve their anger and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis\u2019s press secretary Christina Pushaw sent a message to liberal reporters who were not invited to a GOP convention in the Sunshine State: \u201cTry crying about it.\u201d The Florida Republican Party\u2019s annual Sunshine Summit came to its big election-year gathering in Hollywood over the past weekend, featuring keynote speakers, panel discussions, Republican [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":246,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1572208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1572208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1572208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1572208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1572208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}