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The Loyal Republican w/ Scott Jennings (#576)

CNN senior contributor and Republican strategist Scott Jennings joins to defend Trump, explain the new GOP, and litigate tariffs, Greenland, Tucker, Mitch McConnell, and the indignities of cable news.

And is he gonna get that press secretary job or not?

-Jennings the teetotaler

-wtf happened to Moynihan’s hair?

-Jennings’ working-class Kentucky origin story

-back when Kentucky + West Virginia were swing states

-Rush Limbaugh + Paul Harvey University

-what would Rush make of $9K for stay-at-home moms?

-what kind of Republican is Scott Jennings anyway?

-why is Trump so unpopular?

-tariffs, potash + the new Republican orthodoxy

-the Greenland victory (?) lap begins

-Scott’s muscular Republicanism meets the universities

-Van Jones vs. his own side

-Trump vs. CNN and the White House press pool

-Scott Jennings, future press secretary?

-Trump + Mamdani, together again

-Texas gets way too interesting

-Georgia gets weird

-trying to have the one pundit take nobody else has

-do not get in Scott Jennings’ personal space

-does Trump have a corruption problem?

-Trump crypto + the Kentucky coffee can

-whatever happened to Republican “family values”?

-Mitch McConnell is alive

-has Tucker left the MAGA coalition?

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