{"id":1603272,"date":"2022-08-12T12:32:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T16:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1603272"},"modified":"2022-08-12T12:32:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T16:32:42","slug":"the-gloves-are-off-fiery-desantis-spox-resigns-from-state-office-heads-to-his-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-gloves-are-off-fiery-desantis-spox-resigns-from-state-office-heads-to-his-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Gloves Are Off\u2019: Fiery DeSantis Spox Resigns From State Office, Heads To His Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fthe-gloves-are-off-fiery-desantis-spox-resigns-from-state-office-heads-to-his-campaign%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=1603272&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 Florida Governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/ron-desantis\">Ron DeSantis\u2019<\/a> fiery press secretary has resigned from her state office in order to act as his re-election campaign\u2019s rapid response director.<\/p>\n<p>Christina Pushaw announced that she will resign from her position effective August 12, thanking the governor and his officers for giving her \u201clatitude to respond to media narratives in direct and often unconventional ways\u201d and allowing her to \u201credefine this role for a leader whose actions speak for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She emphasized that she has full confidence in her successor, Bryan Griffin, who formerly served as her deputy, noting that \u201cthe chance to play even a small part\u201d in making Florida the \u201cfreest state in these United States,\u201d as DeSantis has previously said, \u201chas truly been the opportunity of a lifetime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Governor DeSantis\u2019 Press Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristinaPushaw?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ChristinaPushaw<\/a> resigns from state office to serve as Director of Rapid Response on the governor\u2019s re-election campaign. Read her resignation letter: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TlngKYiEgp\">pic.twitter.com\/TlngKYiEgp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Florida Standard (@theflstandard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theflstandard\/status\/1558104117884723200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, the gloves are off,\u201d she tweeted on Friday morning as The Florida Standard broke the news of her switch.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Now, the gloves are off \ud83d\ude2c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zTRxWoTcig\">https:\/\/t.co\/zTRxWoTcig<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christina Pushaw \ud83d\udc0a \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@ChristinaPushaw) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristinaPushaw\/status\/1558104306292760583?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pushaw has consistently called out the press for\u00a0\u201cbad-faith coverage\u201d and \u201cskewed\u201d or biased reporting, using Twitter to expose media narratives or to call out specific reporters who she feels misrepresent the facts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re afraid of the governor,\u201d Pushaw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2021\/12\/16\/desantis-christina-pushaw-florida-trump-liberal-media\/\">said in a December interview<\/a> with The Daily Signal. \u201cThe left-wing elites, the establishment, and the corporate media are very much afraid of him. And it shows that he\u2019s a good leader, and that he\u2019s doing a good job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI often say I wish I didn\u2019t have to call people out on Twitter or be confrontational,\u201d Pushaw said at the time. \u201cI always try to speak directly with the reporter first and see if I can get all their questions answered and get the information to them that they\u2019re looking for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the thing is,\u201d she added, \u201cif I do that, and they publish something that\u2019s not true, then I have no choice but to say something direct and publicly about it and to condemn this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In her resignation letter, Pushaw described the historic challenges that Floridians have faced. These challenges have included \u201cprotecting the rights of citizens to earn a living, gather to worship and celebrate life\u2019s milestones, and raise their children free of unconstitutional mandates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It also includes \u201censuring that every student is set up for a lifetime of success with high-quality education \u2014 not ideological indoctrination,\u201d she noted, and \u201cunleashing economic opportunity and achieving stability at the state level \u2014 despite reckless inflationary spending and tax hikes at the federal level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also emphasized the importance of \u201cupholding the rule of law and keeping Floridians safe\u201d as well as \u201cprotecting life, promoting fatherhood, supporting foster and adoptive families, and leading the country in the fight to defend parental rights.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis\u2019 fiery press secretary has resigned from her state office in order to act as his re-election campaign\u2019s rapid response director. Christina Pushaw announced that she will resign from her position effective August 12, thanking the governor and his officers for giving her \u201clatitude to respond to media narratives in direct &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1603387,"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-1603272","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\/1603272","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1603272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1603387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1603272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1603272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1603272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}