CNN panel ridicules GOP insider for claiming Trump 'has never been stronger'
Although Scott Jennings isn't the only conservative pundit on CNN, he is by far the most relentless in his defense of President Donald Trump. Ana Navarro and SE Cupp are Never Trumpers, and GOP pollster Kristin Soltis Anderson is conservative but not ultra-MAGA.
Jennings, however, lashes out over even mild criticism of Trump. And during a Sunday, December 21 panel on CNN's "State of the Union," Jennings became furious when Kate Bedingfield (former White House communications director in the Biden Administration) and others noted Trump's low approval ratings in polls.
Bedingfield pointed out that Trump, according to polls, is "dropping with independents, he's dropping with moderates as we're looking toward a midterm election where people are concerned about costs."
Anderson interjected that Trump is talking about "affordability" but needs to "talk about it in the right way," stressing that if he doesn't, it's "going to turn out politically perilous for him."
Democratic attorney and former South Carolina State Rep. Bakari Sellers, also on the panel, commented that Trump is coming across like someone's "old uncle."
Jennings grew increasingly angry over the other panelists saying that Trump is unpopular, insisting, "The president is the head of the Republican Party. He's never been stronger among Republicans than he is right now…. You guys have been desperate, for ten years, to find the moment where Donald Trump is no longer going to be accepted by the (Republican Party). He is the leader of the Republican Party. He is going to continue to be the leader of the Republican Party."
Bedingfield brutally mocked Jennings, sarcastically commenting that "it is Bill Clinton who has really suffered for the last six months" because of "his inability to govern."