House Speaker Kevin McCarthy essentially dissed Ron DeSantis in a recent interview.

GALLAGHER: All of us have to be very careful as the this presidential election process plays out. As I’ve said over and over again, if you’re a Never Trumper, what are you going to do if Trump’s the nominee? If you’re only in for Ron DeSantis and you hate Trump, and Trump becomes is going to be the nominee for the presidential race, what are you going to do? You know, you’re going to support Joe Biden. You’re going to you’re going to back a Democrat. How’s that going to play out for you? I think the same standard has to apply to members of Congress, certainly members of Republican Party leadership like Kevin McCarthy. Now, I think he’s pretty effective. I think he’s been doing a good job and he’s got a mess on his hands with this potential looming government shutdown. It’s like herding cats, trying to keep the various members of the caucus happy. Listen to what he said to Maria Bartiromo though, about DeSantis and Trump.

BARTIROMO: What’s your take on this? That as we see more indictments of Donald Trump, he seems to be gaining in terms of popularity with the public. Will he be the nominee?

MCCARTHY: I think he will be the nominee. And the thing is, President Trump is stronger today than he was in 2016 or 2020. And there’s a reason why they saw the policies of what he was able to do with America, putting America first, making our economy stronger. We didn’t have inflation. We didn’t have these battles around the world. We didn’t look weak around the world. Well, looks like Francis is now trying to work with your colleagues who are pushing for a shutdown. Yeah, but I don’t think that would work anywhere. A shutdown would only give strength to the Democrats. It would give the power to Biden. It wouldn’t pay our troops. They wouldn’t pay our border agents. More people would be coming across. I actually want to achieve something. And this is what President Trump is so smart that he was successful in this. You know, President Trump is beating Biden right now in the polls.

BARTIROMO: Yeah, we have the poll. Let’s show it. He’s stronger than he has ever been in this process.

MCCARTHY: And look, I served with Ron DeSantis. He’s not at the same level as President Trump by any shape or form. He would not have gotten elected without President Trump’s endorsement. And so I believe our best step forward to pass our appropriation bills so we’re stronger, take the wokeism out. Secure our border to make America stronger.

GALLAGHER: Wow. I don’t think that was on my. I didn’t have that on my radar. Does that surprise you that Kevin McCarthy is all in for Donald Trump? So I think to be fair and to be consistent, I have to say I have to apply the same standard to Speaker McCarthy, because if DeSantis becomes the nominee, they’re going to have a bit of a bumpy relationship now. Ron DeSantis heard about Kevin McCarthy’s position and responded as well. This is Ron DeSantis answering a question from a reporter regarding Speaker McCarthy’s full fledged endorsement of Donald Trump.

DESANTIS: Well, look, I would say I mean, I think that if you look at what’s happened with D.C. Republicans, they worked very closely. You know, look, Donald Trump, he supported Kevin McCarthy very strongly for speaker. I don’t think he would have won the speaker vote. Donald Trump was instrumental in him earning that speaker’s gavel. And they worked hand in glove, really throughout his whole presidency. They were on the same team on every major spending bill that came down the pike, and they ended up together, adding $7.8 trillion to our national debt. Never in a four year period has that much been added than what they did together. And so he said that we’re different. We are different because in Florida we run budget surpluses. We’ve paid down almost 25% of our state’s that just since I’ve been governor, all the debt all the way up for all of Florida’s history, we’ve knocked off almost 25% of it. So it’s a much different approach to where we’re doing it right. We have the number one rated economy in the country. We’ve cut taxes, we’ve expanded school choice, and we’ve delivered in a way that has made the state sustainable.