<p>Republican Florida Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis">Ron DeSantis&#8217;</a> fiery press secretary has resigned from her state office in order to act as his re-election campaign&#8217;s rapid response director.</p>
<p>&#8220;I am starting a new job on Monday on the governor&#8217;s reelection campaign,&#8221; Christina Pushaw shared in a phone interview with The Daily Wire on Friday afternoon. &#8220;I&#8217;m going to be director of rapid response. So that&#8217;s somewhat similar to what I&#8217;m doing now, except more political, obviously. And it&#8217;ll involve both communications and research, which I&#8217;m really excited about.&#8221;</p>
<p>Pushaw <a href="https://twitter.com/theflstandard/status/1558104117884723200">said Friday</a> that she will resign from her position effective August 12, thanking the governor and his officers for giving her &#8220;latitude to respond to media narratives in direct and often unconventional ways&#8221; and allowing her to &#8220;redefine this role for a leader whose actions speak for themselves.&#8221;</p>
<p>She emphasized that she has full confidence in her successor, Bryan Griffin, who formerly served as her deputy, noting that &#8220;the chance to play even a small part&#8221; in making Florida the &#8220;freest state in these United States,&#8221; as DeSantis has previously said, &#8220;has truly been the opportunity of a lifetime.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Now, the gloves are off,&#8221; she <a href="https://twitter.com/ChristinaPushaw/status/1558104306292760583">tweeted</a> on Friday morning as The Florida Standard broke the news of her switch. Her tweet was a little &#8220;tongue-in-cheek,&#8221; she shared laughingly with The Daily Wire, noting that she does not typically hold back with her responses to the press.</p>
<p>&#8220;Traditionally for a state employee, you don&#8217;t have a lot of latitude,&#8221; she said. &#8220;But I&#8217;ve been really fortunate to have that latitude to respond, to debunk those false narratives for more than a year that I&#8217;ve been here.&#8221;</p>
<p>Now that she will be working on the governor&#8217;s campaign, she&#8217;ll be able to directly respond to whoever wins the Democratic gubernatorial nomination and be &#8220;more direct&#8221; in terms of how she responds to political attacks.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think that is going to be important at this juncture, for the next three months,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Our focus has to be on defeating those who would take Florida off the great path that it&#8217;s been on under this governor.&#8221;</p>
<div id="attachment_423481" style="width: 940px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-423481" class="wp-image-423481 size-large" src="https://editorial.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3623-930x576.jpeg" alt="" width="930" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/08/IMG_3623-930x576.jpeg 930w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/08/IMG_3623-300x186.jpeg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/08/IMG_3623-768x476.jpeg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/08/IMG_3623-1536x952.jpeg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/08/IMG_3623-2048x1269.jpeg 2048w" sizes=" (max-width: 930px) 100vw, 930px" /><p id="caption-attachment-423481" class="wp-caption-text">Photo courtesy of Christina Pushaw.</p></div>
<p>Pushaw has consistently called out the press for “bad-faith coverage” and “skewed” or biased reporting, using Twitter to expose media narratives or to call out specific reporters who she feels misrepresent the facts.</p>
<p>“They’re afraid of the governor,” 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. “The left-wing elites, the establishment, and the corporate media are very much afraid of him. And it shows that he’s a good leader, and that he’s doing a good job.”</p>
<p>“I often say I wish I didn’t have to call people out on Twitter or be confrontational,” Pushaw said at the time. “I 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’re looking for.”</p>
<p>“But the thing is,” she added, “if I do that, and they publish something that’s not true, then I have no choice but to say something direct and publicly about it and to condemn this.”</p>
<p>In her resignation letter, Pushaw described the historic challenges that Floridians have faced. These challenges have included &#8220;protecting the rights of citizens to earn a living, gather to worship and celebrate life&#8217;s milestones, and raise their children free of unconstitutional mandates.&#8221;</p>
<p>It also includes &#8220;ensuring that every student is set up for a lifetime of success with high-quality education — not ideological indoctrination,&#8221; she noted, and &#8220;unleashing economic opportunity and achieving stability at the state level — despite reckless inflationary spending and tax hikes at the federal level.&#8221;</p>
<p>She also emphasized the importance of &#8220;upholding the rule of law and keeping Floridians safe&#8221; as well as &#8220;protecting life, promoting fatherhood, supporting foster and adoptive families, and leading the country in the fight to defend parental rights.&#8221;</p>

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