During the livestream of an event attended by Gov. Ron DeSantis in Jacksonville, First Coast News reporter Atyia Collins was caught on a live mic saying it is her job is to make DeSantis “uncomfortable.” “No my job is to ask the tough questions and make him uncomfortable I guess,” Collins said. Later on, she was heard saying how her web manager urged her to “just run up to him” as he gets off the stage and “just yell questions at him.” “He already doesn’t like the media,” Collins is heard saying. DeSantis’ team was quick to respond to the comments and put Collins on blast as his rapid response director Christina Pushaw called out the “journactivist” on Twitter.

Collins would go on press DeSantis with questions at the event, asking him about removing books from school libraries in Duval County following his administration’s guidelines banning pornographic material from children’s books. She mentioned a video  went viral last month, which the governor quickly dismissed as being part of a “fake narrative.”

“This is trying to create some narrative as if that – they hadn’t even put the books out yet to begin with, so there’s no need for all of that stuff. What they’re trying to do is they’re trying to act like somehow, you know, we don’t want books,” DeSantis said.

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Last week, DeSantis’ office clashed with “The View” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, who accused the governor of “erasing” Black history with his opposition to a proposed AP African American History course, which he slammed for having a “political agenda.”

Farah Griffin later tweeted a mea culpa, saying she got “tripped up” and “accidentally misrepresented” DeSantis’ stance.

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