Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’s press secretary Christina Pushaw sent a message to liberal reporters who were not invited to a GOP convention in the Sunshine State: “Try crying about it.”
“It has come to my attention that some liberal media activists are mad because they aren’t allowed into #SunshineSummit this weekend,” said DeSantis spokeswoman Christina Pushaw via a July 22 Twitter post.
“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.”
In another post the following day, Pushaw described liberals as “a vibe killer” at conservative events as journalists attempted to “stalk attendees and get content that they can edit, take out of context, & publish for their DNC overlords,” calling out the Daily Beast, VOX, Vice, and the Washington Post.
This summit came nearly one month before Florida’s primary election, including races for governor and the U.S. Senate. Republicans determined ahead of time that the event would be “invite only” for media.
“I’m not going to have a bunch of left-wing media asking our primary candidates a bunch of gotcha questions,” DeSantis told a crowd on Saturday morning at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino where the summit took place on Saturday.
DeSantis had also mocked Psaki’s remarks earlier this year with a message of his own saying, “Having a margarita is well and good, but it is not a cure for Bidenflation.”