Former advisor to Ukrainian politician Mikheil Saakashvili, Christina Pushaw, angrily threatened to resign from her “rapid response” communications role with the Ron DeSantis for President campaign over the summer of 2023 after she was frozen out of staff meetings for being “off-message” and “bad at messaging,” according to a lengthy report from The Messenger.
Pushaw, a registered foreign agent and open borders activist, reportedly lashed out in a heated exchange with then-campaign manager Generra Peck in the first weeks of July.
“If you think I’m so off-message and bad at messaging, why are you cutting me out of messaging meetings… I’ll just fucking quit!” screamed Christina Pushaw, according to reporting from Marc Caputo.
The incident occurred around the time Pushaw’s team of “social media knife fighters” had pumped out homoerotic and Nazi content featuring the Florida Governor, leading to widespread ridicule. A few weeks later, DeSantis himself appeared on the Megyn Kelly show to distance himself from Pushaw’s online operation.
“So, look, we have people that are doing this rapid response. I’m not putting my time into it at all. I mean, you know, they’re going and going back and forth. You know, there’s kind of a battle online. I’m not somebody who’s following that very closely. It’s just not my cup of tea,” DeSantis said.
“I think that there’s a place for that, but, ultimately, you know, the people in Iowa and New Hampshire, you know, they’re not following the latest Twitter war.”
DeSantis went on to lose by a massive margin in Iowa and dropped out before New Hampshire.
