Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) weighed in Tuesday on the speakership battle raging on Capitol Hill, noting he was against Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) “when it wasn’t cool” during his time as a congressman.
“I opposed McCarthy when it wasn’t cool years ago,” DeSantis told Scripps News. “He’s really somebody that Donald Trump has backed and put into that position.”
"And so I think that they’ve not delivered results,” he continued. “I think the contrast between Florida, us delivering results, and what you have in Washington is typically failure theater.”
DeSantis represented Florida in the House from 2013 to 2018 and was a founding member of the conservative Freedom Caucus.
