Scott Jennings Pleads On CNN For Democrats to Give Trump a ‘Couple of Years of Peace’ This Time Around

CNN’s Scott Jennings pleaded with Democrats to allow Donald Trump to go to Washington in January and give him the “peace” to govern, at least for a little, while on air Wednesday night.

During the network’s ongoing coverage of Trump’s 2024 election win over Vice President Kamala Harris to secure a second term, Jennings complained Trump’s opponents were already preparing to obstruct him.

The veteran GOP strategist echoed Trump’s claim he would be inaugurated with a mandate from American voters, and that Democrats should respect that.

“I think he does have a mandate and that’s how he should read it and that’s how the Republicans should read it,” Jennings said. He continued:

Something that’s been on my mind for several months. There was an article in The New York Times in June that said resistance to new Trump administration already forming. And it was this long article about all these groups that were already out there at that time, they thought he was going to beat Biden. But already planning to try to tie up the administration in court. You’ve had Jamie Raskin out there already saying we’ve got to try to tie him up, maybe even before he’s sworn in.

Today, Sheldon Whitehouse in the Senate put out a press release saying we’re going to focus not on progress, but on containing Donald Trump. My political advice to all these people is please pick up the election results today and see what happened. The American people want this president and his administration and his party to make progress on the things they promised to do. This is exactly what happened last time. They were plotting to impeach him before he ever took office back in 2016.

He concluded, “Can we just have a couple of years of peace for the Republicans and President Trump to do what they promised to do?”

Jennings’s plea ultimately fell on the deaf ears of Ana Navarro, who responded, “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.”

Watch above via CNN.

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