Scott Jennings Admits He ‘Found No Reason’ to Want Max Miller in Congress After CNN Interview

Republican strategist Scott Jennings said Tuesday that Rep. Max Miller’s (R-OH) CNN appearance left him with “no reason” to believe the embattled congressman should remain in office.

Miller joined Tuesday’s edition of CNN’s The Lead, where host Jake Tapper asked him about the abuse allegations from his ex-wife and Sen. Bernie Moreno’s (R-OH) daughter, Emily Moreno, who said Miller pointed a gun at her head, threw scalding hot water at her, pushed her into a wall, and fractured their two-year-old daughter’s collarbone. Miller denies the accusations.

“First of all, my heart goes out to the family,” said Jennings on CNN. “I mean, you’ve got a mother, a young child. Bernie Moreno, who I know and have been very fond of — a great new senator from Ohio. I mean, I believe them when they say they have gone through what Bernie Moreno called ‘the seventh level of hell.'”

Here, Jennings is referring to Tuesday comments made by Moreno to reporters, in which he said, “What my daughter has been through, what my wife is going through, this is truly the seventh level of hell. This has been a horrific experience for my entire family.”

Jennings continued on Miller’s CNN interview:

This interview today was remarkable. It was long. It was full of deflection. Um, I found no reason, just as a Republican watching it, why I would want that person, above all other Republicans who live in that district, to serve in the U.S. Congress. Even if you’re Max Miller and you want to argue, “All of these things are not true,” or “it’s made up,” or whatever, don’t you have to ask yourself, “What’s the best thing for my family?”

You know, we’ve got a broken family here. We’ve got a little girl. He strikes me as someone who needs some personal healing. That family obviously needs some healing, and is the best way to do that to fight it out in a congressional campaign? In the middle of American politics, the way it is right now, obviously the answer to that question is no. I would think it’d be a pretty easy call for Republicans to say, “We can do better than this in Ohio.”

Watch the clip above via CNN.

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