GOP presidential candidate Ron DeSantis lost his patience Thursday with an Associated Press reporter who said the Florida governor was refusing to engage with voters on the campaign trail.

DeSantis, 44, laid into Steve Peoples while hobnobbing with hundreds of voters and posing for pictures backstage at an event in Laconia, New Hampshire.

“Why not take any questions from voters, governor?” Peoples asked, referring to DeSantis not including a Q-and-A session following a stump speech.

“People are coming up to me, talking to me. What are you talking about?” DeSantis fired back. “Are you blind? Are you blind?”

“I’m not blind,” Peoples said.

“OK,” the Florida governor responded, “so people are coming up to me, talking to me [about] whatever they want to talk to me about.”

Never Back Down, a super PAC supporting DeSantis, tweeted out video of the exchange, referring to Peoples as a “fake news reporter.”

“This is the same Associated Press reporter who just a couple weeks ago spread the easily debunked lie that ‘DeSantis made little effort to connect with voters,’” said Never Back Down, linking to another AP article that reported the candidate “devoted little time for selfies or handshakes” at a campaign stop with more than 600 voters in Sioux Center, Iowa.

Peoples did not attend the Iowa campaign event but was listed as a contributor who reported from New York.

The AP later removed the phrase “little effort” and said “DeSantis devoted little time — at least compared with most of the GOP’s other White House contenders — for selfies or handshakes.”

“Perfectly illustrative of the modern media shutting their eyes and ears to the truth to push their narrative,” tweeted Bryan Griffin, a spokesman for the governor.

Peoples tweeted back to online detractors that New Hampshire Republican State Committee Treasurer Alan Glassman “attended DeSantis’ 1st event [and] was disappointed he didn’t include a question-and-answer period,” quoting the state party official as saying he was “hoping that next time the governor does show up here, he’ll actually be doing some more interaction with the people.”

The reporter also said Glassman vowed to skip the other DeSantis events in the Granite State Thursday, claiming the candidate likely would not be taking impromptu questions.

In Laconia, DeSantis reiterated many of the themes of his campaign so far, taking shots at GOP frontrunner and former President Donald Trump as well as President Biden.

The governor pledged to “end the culture of losing that has infected the Republican Party” and said his candidacy was focused on “sending Joe Biden to his basement.”

He also touted his record of success in Florida during his second term in office, including passing legislation to ban gender-transition surgeries for minors

“Too often, and you’ll probably see it, you have people who run for elected office, they say they’re going to do all these wonderful things,” Casey DeSantis, Ron’s wife, told attendees when speaking on stage at the event.

“When they go up to, particularly, places like Washington DC, they go rogue and they become listless vessels bending in the wind, beholden to polls and politics, not delivering accomplishments on behalf of the people that they were elected to represent. And it’s very frustrating,” she added before touting her husband’s leadership qualities.

“He never backs down. He never changes. He doesn’t cower, never takes the path of least resistance, who always stands up for what’s right. And he always puts the interests of the people ahead of his own.”

Meanwhile, in Iowa, Trump made a point of telling about 200 members of a conservative club gathered at a Des Moines-area restaurant that they could ask him questions, saying “a lot of politicians don’t take questions. They give a speech.”

Trump also sought to capitalize off a recent remark by DeSantis that it would likely take two terms for a Republican White House to really roll back the actions of the Biden administration — a veiled reference to the 76-year-old, who can only serve one more term.

“Who the hell wants to wait eight years?” asked Trump, who claimed he could unwind Biden’s policies within six months.

DeSantis, asked about the former president’s comment while leaving a voter event in Rochester, New Hampshire on Thursday afternoon, noted that Trump had already had a chance to fix the nation’s problems, asking: “Why didn’t he do it in his first four years?”