‘You Want It To Fail’: Scott Jennings Clashes With Never-Trump Republican Worried Trump Won’t Run ‘Conservative’ Govt

Republican strategist Scott Jennings argued that former Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan of Georgia wanted President-elect Donald Trump “to fail” Thursday night during a CNN panel discussion.

Duncan, who supported Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, criticized Trump for some of his selections for cabinet posts, including former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii who was picked to serve as Director of National Intelligence and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was selected to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Jennings retorted that Trump ran for re-election and won with the intention of “blowing up Washington.”

“My belief is people did have an expectation that they would be involved, and the reason that they were okay with it is because, look, they are fed up with institutional Washington,” Jennings said. “Now, that’s different than actually going through the confirmation and running the gauntlet and getting confirmed. But, I don’t think there should be any political mistake here. Trump ran with these people, he ran on these people, he ran on the idea of blowing up Washington and he is following through.”

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Former CNN analyst John Avlon, who ran for Congress as a Democrat, brought up Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah’s criticism of Gabbard, prompting a back-and-forth where Jennings said he was “waiting for the confirmation hearings.”

“He won the election. He did a great job of being the mouthpiece of all things that bothered people without having to deliver solutions,” Duncan claimed. “But the problem now, he’s in the job, he is going to be the president … and he has no solutions. None.”