'Rich': CNN panelists hit back at 'duplicitous' Republican in post-election exchange
A longtime GOP insider’s on-air plea for “a couple years of peace” for President-elect Donald Trump and the Republican Party stirred up a CNN panel Wednesday evening and left an anti-Trump Republican infuriated.
The moment unfolded during the network’s continued post-election analysis when Republican strategist and CNN commentator Scott Jennings made an impassioned appeal to Trump’s political opponents.
“The American people want this president and his administration and his party to make progress on the things they promised to do,” Jennings told the panel, which included anti-Trump Republican strategist Ana Navarro. “This is exactly what happened last time. They were plotting to impeach him before he ever took office back in 2016 – let us not have a replay of this. Can we just have a couple of years of peace for the Republicans and President Trump to do what they promised to do because the American people clearly are asking for it.”
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Navarro immediately pounced on the brazen statement given the MAGA leader mounted a violent insurrection attempt and encouraged supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol after refusing to concede the 2020 election.
“Scott I have to tell you that's really rich though from a party and from Trump who for four years never even acknowledged that Joe Biden had won the election,” Navarro said.
CNN’s Erin Burnett added: “He still hasn't, except for when he said to Joe Rogan by accident.”
That’s when former Obama White House senior policy adviser Ashley Allison went after Jennings, telling the former Mitch McConnel strategist that the Senate minority leader not only blocked former President Barack Obama “from doing anything to allow him to get another term or make any progress,” but he also refused to allow the 44th president to move through his Supreme Court nominee through the Senate.
“It is so duplicitous I feel like. I respect you Scott, and you are my friend, but please do not sit here and say that Republicans when Democrats are elected just roll over…”
Jennings concluded the exchange by offering a piece of advice to Democrats.
“My advice is if you go down this road and try to stop this government, which just won a mandate, you will pay the price in election after election. The American people are asking for progress. Do not tie this man up. Give this person a chance to lead,” he said.
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