Christina Pushaw

After Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida First Lady Casey DeSantis rounded out five campaign events this week opposing a new measure legalizing weed, one of the Governor's top staffers has taken to social media to create and laud a list of who is voting "no" on the controversial, Trump-endorsed measure. While the Governor has eviscerated […]

In a new TV advertisement, the campaign against an amendment that would legalize recreational marijuana has taken up a novel criticism of the initiative: it doesn't let Floridians grow weed at home.  First propagated by Gov. Ron DeSantis' senior analyst Christina Pushaw on social media, the new angle blasts the citizen-led referendum, called Amendment 3, […]

TALLAHASSEE, FL—Prompted by social media posts poking fun at his Harvard University degree, Trump ally Rep. Randy Fine is calling on the Senate President and Speaker of the House to investigate Gov. Ron DeSantis' communications team. This is only the latest chapter in the ever-lengthening Fine v. DeSantis saga, which was sparked after DeSantis flew […]

With a laundry list of legislative wins firmly tucked away under his gubernatorial belt, 2024 Republican presidential candidate and Governor Ron DeSantis is arguably the Greatest of All Time (G.O.A.T) when you compare him to past Florida governors, but his online messaging team sucks.

As his 2024 presidential campaign is in the middle of an unprecedented reboot because of money woes and dipping poll numbers,  Governor Ron DeSantis’s Rapid Response Director Christina Pushaw appears to have gone off script again. This past Saturday night, Pushaw found it funny to take a swipe at former President Donald Trump at the […]

Representative Byron Donalds (R-FL) has recently criticized a line in the new Florida Education curriculum suggesting slaves "developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit." Pro-DeSantis social media influencers retaliated by comparing him to Vice President Kamala Harris, who also criticized the curriculum. Rep. Donalds appeared on Fox Business defending […]

Shortly after Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) signed laws strengthening penalties for human trafficking at the southern border and tightening E-Verify laws, Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) spoke against the bill on MSNBC, claiming reducing illegal immigration would "devastate" the economy. Daily Caller's Greg Price tweeted the clip, "Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL): "You're going to […]

Few would deny Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is popular among the masses. Influencers on Twitter will speak favorably of him, and some are even acknowledged by his campaign Press Secretary Christina Pushaw. According to the Daily Beast's Jake Lahut, this cannot possibly be because Gov. DeSantis is just that popular. "Scoop — A look at […]

Recently, Gov. Ron DeSantis announces the Pine Island bridge being rebuilt in an extraordinarily fast three days. The next day, the Associated Press tweets a video about the damage to Pine Island that Hurricane Ian wrought. While the video focuses on the positive of Pine Island residents coming to each other's aid, the tweet and video […]

Last week, The Floridian detailed Politico's attempt to politicize Hurricane Ian and the backlash on Twitter. One week later, it is PolitiFact that is in hot water. Yacob Reyes asserts that Gov. Ron DeSantis' claim of Lee County not being in the cone of the storm 72 hours before landfall is "mostly false." Reyes "proves" […]

Ahead of Hurricane Ian's landfall in Florida, Politico's Matt Dixon says this is Ron DeSantis' first hurricane as Governor. Dixon anticipates to see how this storm "will affect Florida's already faltering property insurance market." Additionally, Dixon says while DeSantis gave three briefings Monday, "he has not, however, put himself out into the public as much […]

Last week, Charlie Crist's pick for Lieutenant Governor Karla Hernandez-Mats mockingly compared the Florida legislature to special education students. She describes herself as trained to work with emotionally handicapped students, thus is qualified to deal with the "dysfunctional" legislature. Additionally, Hernandez-Mats uses the word "sped" as a contraction of "special education," more frequently used as […]

Barely a week after winning the Democratic primary for Governor, Charlie Crist (D) continues to alienate Floridians. As we have covered, Crist called Ron DeSantis (R) a fascist whose supporters have "hate in their hearts" and does not want their vote. Saturday, Rep Crist picked Karla Hernandez-Mats, an apparent Fidel Castro sympathizing, pro-lockdown teacher union […]

On Friday, Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nuñez, a first-generation Cuban-American, appeared on the Spanish-language radio show " Actualidad Radio" to discuss illegal immigration and Cuban exiles, where her two-tiered response to a question about illegal immigration, and the amount of Cubans illegally crossing the southern border drew the ire of Florida Democrats, including Agriculture Commissioner Nikki […]

Governor Ron DeSantis's feisty press secretary Christina Pushaw has turned in her letter of resignation and will be joining Gov. DeSantis's re-election campaign. Pushaw will serve as Director of Rapid Response. "Now, the gloves are off," stated Pushaw on Twitter in response to a tweet from FL Stand. Pushaw has been his protective shield, and […]

As a part of Governor Ron DeSantis' (R-FL) new "Freedom First" budget for Florida, the administration is once again placing Florida families at the front of their agenda by distributing $450 checks per child to take care of Back-To-School and family expenses.  However, several Progressive Democratic state lawmakers have been critical of the move, accusing […]

The Clay County School District has come under national scrutiny for silencing a concerned parent over his concerns about the district allowing children to read sexually charged and "pornographic" books in school. At a recent school board meeting, Bruce Friedman spoke in front of the board members to call out what he called "pornography" in […]

After Gov. Ron DeSantis called the Washington Post story about Christina Pushaw registering as a foreign agent for work she did in the country of Georgia (not the Peach state) a "smear story," Rep. Charlie Crist referred to Pushaw as some "Secret foreign agent"