{"id":2357899,"date":"2024-10-22T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/you-know-your-party-is-in-trouble-cnn-contributor-gives-democrat-strategist-brutal-reality-check\/"},"modified":"2024-10-22T11:19:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T15:19:11","slug":"you-know-your-party-is-in-trouble-cnn-contributor-gives-democrat-strategist-brutal-reality-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/you-know-your-party-is-in-trouble-cnn-contributor-gives-democrat-strategist-brutal-reality-check\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;You Know Your Party Is in Trouble&#8217;: CNN Contributor Gives Democrat Strategist Brutal Reality Check"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fyou-know-your-party-is-in-trouble-cnn-contributor-gives-democrat-strategist-brutal-reality-check%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2357899&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The text discusses a recent exchange\u2063 between Republican strategist Scott Jennings and Democratic strategist Julie Roginsky on CNN about the \u200cstate of the \u2064Republican Party and the competition between presidential\u200d candidates Kamala \u2064Harris and Donald \u200bTrump. Jennings argues that many Republicans support Trump not simply\u2063 out of loyalty to one individual but because they align with his policies, \u2063such as lower taxes and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-hopefuls-go-on-offense-against-trump-one-month-before-iowa-too-little-too-late\/\" title=\"GOP candidates attack Trump before Iowa: &#039;Too late, not enough\">conservative judicial appointments<\/a>. He criticizes the Democratic\u200d Party for being out of touch with Middle America and contends that Harris would not meet the needs of\u200b conservative \u200bvoters.<\/p>\n<p>Roginsky, on the other hand, claims \u200bthat Trump\u2062 has turned the GOP into a &#8220;cult&#8221; and questions how Republicans\u200d can still identify with the party given its \u200bcurrent direction. Jennings \u2063counters that the Republican Party is not a cult and highlights\u200d that voters often disagree with their chosen candidates on various issues. \u2062He emphasizes that his support \u2062for Trump is based on his alignment \u2064with specific policies.<\/p>\n<p>the dialogue reveals a\u200c heightened tension between the two parties as they\u200d head into the election, with Jennings\u200b believing that Harris&#8217;s struggles\u2063 reflect deeper issues within the Democratic Party, while Roginsky fears that the\u2063 GOP lacks ideological coherence.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> <script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>For better or worse, most Americans have made up their minds about the two major-party presidential candidates running this fall. And that is, Republican strategist and CNN contributor Scott Jennings said, big trouble for Kamala Harris&rsquo; campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on the Clinton News Network this past weekend, Jennings told Democratic strategist Julie Roginsky &mdash; who said that the Trump GOP is like a &ldquo;cult&rdquo; to her, because of course &mdash; that &ldquo;you know your party is in trouble,&rdquo; which is why she and other Dems are doubling down on the talk of cults and zombie-like voters.<\/p>\n<p>The exchange, which went viral, came after Roginsky said that &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t understand for the life of me why Republicans who support Trump still call themselves Republicans if they ever voted for Ronald Reagan or George Bush or worked for Mitch McConnell or any of the kinds of things that Republicans used to stand for.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Never mind that this is a convenient Democratic tactic: Pick a Republican that they hated when he or she was in a position of power, say that&nbsp;<em>they<\/em> would be the kind of Republican they could tolerate, and why can&rsquo;t you guys be more like them? It never works like that, of course; Mitt Romney, currently the&nbsp;<em>beau ideal<\/em> of the &ldquo;old Republican&rdquo; that Democrats could tolerate, was painted as a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">dog-abusing cancer-patient killer<\/a> who thought corporations were people during the 2012 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>However, as Jennings noted, he and other conservatives are less in thrall to a man than they are to a series of ideas.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Number one, I want lower taxes. Number two, I want conservative judges on the court,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Not with Trump!&rdquo; Roginsky shot back. It&rsquo;s unclear what she meant by this; Trump had a good record on judges and Democrats are the ones promising to raise taxes. But, whatever; Jennings continued.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Number three, I want a better economy for American workers. Number four, I want a president who cares what&rsquo;s going on in Middle America, which the Democratic Party has completely and totally abandoned,&rdquo; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Are there Republicans right now? Is there a push-and-pull on foreign policy in the party? Absolutely,&rdquo; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s true all the time for every political Party. You don&rsquo;t have total unanimity on every issue. And I do prefer a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/yemen-lgbt-refugees-and-white-supremacy-everything-you-need-to-know-about-bidens-first-foreign-policy-speech\/\" title=\"Yemen, LGBT Refugees, And White Supremacy: Everything You Need To Know About Biden\u2019s First Foreign Policy Speech\">muscular foreign policy<\/a> and maybe Donald Trump, like every other politician I&rsquo;ve ever voted for, won&rsquo;t do everything that I like all of the time.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But I&rsquo;ll tell you this: Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have run this country into the ground. I want a center-right government. And most of the time, they&rsquo;re going to do what I want to do. And all of the time, she&rsquo;s not.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Roginsky went on to drift off into talk about inflation if Trump&rsquo;s tariff policies &mdash; which the Biden administration has kept in effect, it&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pollsters-that-were-dead-on-in-last-2-elections-drop-2024-update-kamala-harris-should-be-terrified\/\" title=\"Pollsters That Were Dead-On in Last 2 Elections Drop 2024 Update, Kamala Harris Should Be Terrified\">worth noting &#038;mdash<\/a>; are enacted. She then went on to connect this back to her point about the wider GOP and how &ldquo;whatever whims come into [Trump&rsquo;s] head &hellip; you all jump behind him.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If he said the sky&rsquo;s purple tomorrow, you&rsquo;d say the sky&rsquo;s purple tomorrow,&rdquo; she claimed.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s nothing left in the Republican Party anymore that is based in any kind of ideology. You don&rsquo;t even have a party platform anymore. It is based on the whims of one man and you&rsquo;re all falling in line.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And I think that&rsquo;s really sad for a party that used to stand for something. I didn&rsquo;t agree with what a lot of it stood for, but at least it had a coherent message and a coherent policy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Jennings went on to note that &ldquo;it&rsquo;s not a cult.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t always agree with Donald Trump. I don&rsquo;t agree &mdash; there&rsquo;s virtually no politician alive that I or I think any other American voter agrees with all the time, and it&rsquo;s my right to agree and disagree and it&rsquo;s also my right to vote for a direction for the government that&rsquo;s basically in line with where I want to be,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s two people running, Trump and Harris. Harris, none of the time is going to do what I want, and Trump most of the time is going to do what I want. And millions of Republicans are going to make that choice &mdash; whether they come from the Romney, Bush, McConnell, Reagan, whatever wing of the Republican Party. Millions of Republicans are making that calculation today,&rdquo; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And the reason you&rsquo;re upset is because Harris is struggling, Trump is surging, and you know your party in trouble.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Fact check: Accurate.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Was informed I&rsquo;m in a cult and not allowed to be a Republican by my debating partner on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN?\">@cnn<\/a>. So I explained why that&rsquo;s wrong, and why millions of Republicans are planning to support Trump &amp; the GOP ticket this fall. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tPRlf5pBdw\">pic.twitter.com\/tPRlf5pBdw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScottJenningsKY\/status\/1848477383512195313?\">October 21, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Again, it&rsquo;s amazing how quickly the messaging goes from joy-and-vibes frivolity to &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t get how anyone could vote for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/democratic-strategist-goes-off-rails-live-cnn-makes-disgusting-claim-trump-unhinged-rant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">literal Nazi<\/a> running a cult who will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/kamala-harris-loses-bret-baier-fact-checks-playing-video-clip-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">arrest half of America<\/a>&rdquo; rhetoric like Roginsky was peddling.<\/p>\n<p>The fact is, the Democrats are in trouble. They know it. The polls show it. That&rsquo;s why the rhetoric is getting more fevered, the claims more ridiculous, the fear-mongering more preposterous. 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During a recent appearance on CNN, Jennings discussed with Democratic strategist Julie Roginsky\u2014who likened the Trump-supporting GOP to a &#8220;cult&#8221;\u2014the troubles facing her party. Roginsky expressed confusion over why Republicans who once supported figures like Ronald Reagan or George Bush still identify as Republicans today. Jennings pointed out that many conservatives prioritize ideas over individual leaders and outlined key issues they care about, such as lower taxes and conservative judges. He argued that while there may be disagreements within the Republican Party, many voters are choosing to support Trump because they feel abandoned by the Democrats under Biden and Harris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2357900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/cnn-logo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[9373,4912,32171,35890,11678],"class_list":["post-2357899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cnn","tag-democrat","tag-political-commentary","tag-reality-check","tag-strategist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/cnn-logo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2357899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2357900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2357899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2357899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2357899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}