{"id":572,"date":"2026-05-27T23:37:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T23:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=572"},"modified":"2026-05-27T23:37:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T23:37:54","slug":"quiet-acceptance-scott-jennings-confesses-trump-is-sinking-the-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=572","title":{"rendered":"Quiet acceptance: Scott Jennings confesses Trump is sinking the GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There\u2019s no hiding it anymore: Republican strategist and pundit Scott Jennings showed calm acquiescence to the realization that President Donald Trump is almost single-handedly deep-sixing the GOP\u2019s chances in November with his war in Iran.<\/p>\n

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Even better, Jennings appeared to cheer Trump\u2019s war, which has had a ripple effect on voters\u2019 gas prices and grocery costs as the nation slides into November.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Democrats will make a case and the people will vote. Under no circumstances would you ever want the commander in chief making military decisions based on how many people might vote on in a precinct somewhere in the middle of the country,\u201d Jennings told a CNN panel. \u201cThat is. That is not how you would want national security being handled. So when I hear him say he’s put politics aside to do what’s best for national security, that’s what a commander in chief should do. <\/p>\n

Fellow panelist Axios political reporter Alex Thomson, however, warned Jennings that that\u2019s not the way Republican lawmakers often see it.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou remember you were in the Bush White House,\u201d Thompson reminded. \u201cMitch McConnell was begging George W. Bush to change his approach on Iraq before the 2006 midterms. And this is very normal because there are different political incentives. Donald trump is not on the ballot. He will not be on the ballot again. And everyone in congress wants him to do something to make things better before November.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jennings responded by pointing out that Bush fired his secretary of defense after the midterm rather than before it, despite the secretary\u2019s botched decisions.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd what he said after the election was, \u2018how would it have sounded to some private standing on a corner in Iraq who gets a note saying, well, we just fired the secretary of defense because the elections are coming?\u2019 The president at that time made a national security and a military decision, not a political decision. And politicians can be mad about that. But the president did it because he thought it was right by military strategy and what it would have sounded like to our troops in theater if we were making military decisions based on politics. I always admired the president’s willingness to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd how did that election go for Republicans?\u201d Thompson asked<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did not do very well,\u201d Jennings admitted, \u201cbut you know what? That’s okay, because sometimes you make national security decisions and you see how the ball is going to bounce.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Recent polls show the ball is already not bouncing in Republicans\u2019 favor.<\/p>\n