Ron DeSantis urges House to ‘get their act together,’ pick a Speaker
Ron DeSantis

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'They're running around like chickens with their heads cut off.'

Ron DeSantis, a former three-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives, has a strong message for his erstwhile colleagues as they struggle to pick a leader.

“They’ve got to get their act together,” DeSantis said on Fox News Saturday morning.

The Governor noted that Jim Jordan “won the nomination,” and while he hopes the “great guy” and “great conservative” ultimately becomes Speaker, the process slog was his main rhetorical focus during his interview with Neil Cavuto.

“The more this drags on it just adds to the sense that these guys just can’t shoot straight, they’re running around like chickens with their heads cut off. There’s all kind of drama and palace intrigue, but there’s not really results that are being delivered,” DeSantis said.

DeSantis ultimately did not formally endorse a successor to the removed Kevin McCarthy, but has expressed enthusiasm for Jordan throughout the process.

During a Monday interview on the Howie Carr Show, DeSantis said that while he didn’t really “know the internal dynamics, (he) endorsed Jimmy against Paul Ryan back in the day” and that he thought the Ohio Republican and former Freedom Caucus colleague of DeSantis would do a “good job.”

During an interview with South Carolina’s WSPA Wednesday night, the Governor added the Ohio Republican to his list of people he’d like to see leading the GOP caucus.

“I think you have guys like Chip Roy from Texas who’s excellent, Thomas Massie from Kentucky who’s excellent, Jim Jordan from Ohio. These guys are all good guys and I think they would do a good job.”

DeSantis famously endorsed Jordan as he was leaving Congress in 2018.

“Look, Jim, he is a champion wrestler, he’s tough, he’s principled. … And so I think it would be great. I mean, I think all the lobbyists would be quaking in their boots if Jim Jordan was Speaker,” DeSantis said in August of that year.

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has been the Northeast Florida correspondent for Florida Politics since 2014. His work also can be seen in the Washington Post, the New York Post, the Washington Times, and National Review, among other publications. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski


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  • Pasquino

    October 14, 2023 at 5:29 pm

    No one cares. Desantis was irrelevant in DC. He accomplished absolutely nothing. He spent more time with think tanks than he did with colleagues. He wants fellow fringe Freedom Caucus member Jim Jordan as Speaker. Jordan is part of the swamp: been there 16 years. Never passed a single bill from what I know. This is his last hoorah. Same for Desantis. Maybe they can go off into retirement together? Anyway …

    Don’t want Jordan! Never gonna make it! Next please!

  • Godhelpus

    October 14, 2023 at 5:57 pm

    Gym Jordan who supported a coup? Who supports a man with 91 felonies convicted of rape and fraud. ? Who didn’t support his wrestlers when they told him they were being assaulted? Who will do NOTHING but continue to blow up our government. Yea. He’s a good guy for insurrectionists

  • PeterH

    October 14, 2023 at 6:13 pm

    Jordan, DeSantis and Luna are birds of a feather. That would be a TURKEY feather. Thanksgiving is coming before you know it.

  • Rick Whitaker

    October 15, 2023 at 7:20 am

    desantis mentioned 3 people he liked, massie, roy, and jordan, all dumbass haters. desantis does not have what it takes to be governor of florida. good thing florida voters didn’t elect him.

  • Michael K

    October 15, 2023 at 9:04 am

    DeSantis’ little love-boy Gaetz created this dangerous situation by blowing up the Congres without a plan. Who needs external enemies when the US has traitors from within? The radical right wing of the MAGA cult is driving this disgraceful clown car, much to Putin’s great pleasure. Now Jordan is using terrorist tactics to force his way to the Speaker’s gavel. So much for consensus, compromise, and gravitas. There is nothing serious about Jordan – or former Congressman DeSantis.

  • waking all up righ

    October 15, 2023 at 12:12 pm

    Desatan for Speaker of the House! Anything to get him out of Florida.

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