Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) turned up the heat on a pressure campaign to oust House Freedom Caucus Chairman Bob Good (R-VA), accusing the Virginian of coming to Washington “to be famous.”

Good is fighting off a campaign coming from within his caucus to remove him, infighting that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has asked his members to refrain from carrying out. Good was one of eight House Republicans who voted to oust former Speaker Kevin McCarthy late last year.

“Bob Good didn’t come here to govern. He came here to be famous,” Van Orden told CNN. “Bob Good’s wearing our jersey, and he’s not on the team.”

“If you look at what we have not been able to accomplish in this Congress, it’s predominantly because of Bob Good and his ilk,” Van Orden said. 

Good shrugged off Van Orden’s attack during a campaign trip in his Virginia district this weekend alongside Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Andy Biggs (R-AZ), and Chip Roy (R-TX).

“They’ve never heard of Derrick Van Orden,” Good said about his constituents. “They could care less what Derrick Van Orden thinks.”

He later said that questions about what other Republicans think of him are “stupid.”

“You come to these things, and you ask questions that nobody here cares about,” he said. “You bring up Derrick Van Orden, which is a joke.”

“RINOs, establishment moderates do nothing to influence Republican primary elections,” Good said, using the shorthand to refer to “Republicans in Name Only.” “Conservative, courageous warriors like those endorsing me today and being here with me today are the ones who my constituents care about.”

Good’s opponent, state Sen. John McGuire, who is endorsed by other firebrand Republicans such as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), did not agree with Good. 

“If you are helping the Democrat team take out the Republican team, who is the RINO?” McGuire said.

McGuire announced he was challenging Good when the congressman endorsed Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) over former President Donald Trump in the contested presidential primary. After DeSantis dropped out of the race, Good dropped his support and said he was endorsing the former president.

“I think the Trump team recognizes that I am a genuine Trump supporter,” Good told the Washington Post. “I’ve said many times that he was the greatest president of my lifetime. I supported him in 2016. I supported him in 2020.”

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Good campaigned alongside Mark Meadows, Trump’s former chief of staff, this weekend. However, the Trump campaign remains unsure of Good’s loyalty to the former president. 

“Bob Good won’t be electable by the time we get done with him,” Chris LaCivita, Trump’s campaign manager, previously said. When asked at the campaign event about whether Trump might endorse Good, he said, “My focus is on electing Donald Trump the 47th president of the United States.”