Whatever CNN is paying Scott Jennings, it’s not enough. His pragmatic, common-sense commentary offering realistic solutions to problems plaguing everyday Americans has become the glue holding the network’s evening programming in place.
Night after night, Jennings does rhetorical battle with far-left panelists who continually offer up the same two failing lines of attack: They hate Trump, and they believe everything should be viewed and addressed through the prism of identity politics.
Surely, the executives at CNN understand that it was precisely those attack lines that enabled Trump to make substantial gains within the Hispanic community, the Black community, young men, independents and even a percentage of Democrats. All these voters switched to Trump because they knew that “we hate Trump” and “identity politics” were calculated rants and not a strategy to help keep them safe, lower the cost of essential items, protect their jobs, improve their health care or address the problem of failing public schools.
Each evening on CNN, Jennings throws those bread-and-butter issues back at the liberal panelists — and they either sputter to come up with an answer or double down on the attack lines in allegiance to the vocal yet tiny minority making up the far-left wing of the Democratic Party. The next day, various conservative websites then sing the praises of Jennings for sticking it to the Democrats. Except ... that is not what he does.
Jennings is an honest broker who simply tries to call them as he sees them. His foundation is commonsense and logical, based on his real-world experiences. That acknowledged, Jennings offered up a valid opinion the other night that some Republicans and conservatives undoubtedly wish he had kept to himself — that Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) should be taken seriously as we approach 2028.
This past Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Jennings made two statements that got immediate attention. The first: “I’ll defend the Democrats — they are for things. Illegal aliens, you’re for boys in girls’ sports. That’s why you have such struggles right now in your party, because you’re not for anything that’s on the right side of any of the 80/20 issues that are driving this cultural divide in America.”
Jennings’s next opinion, about Maryland's Democratic governor, was also worth noting and filing away: “I think Wes Moore is actually a pretty talented communicator. Moore is interesting, probably more interesting than some of the radicals you have out there, [Jasmine] Crockett, AOC. I mean those are the true leaders of your party right now, but you’d probably be better off replacing them with Moore.”
Seconding the problems Democrats are having with voters because of their current “leaders” and do-nothing policies is Harry Enten, CNN’s chief data analyst. During an interview last week, Engen dropped two bombs. The first: “Take a look at Reuters-IPSOS. What do we see here? Party with a better economic plan. Well in May of 2024, just before Donald Trump was reelected president, Republicans had a nine-point advantage. Look at where we are now in May of 2025. The advantage actually went up by three points. Now Republicans have a 12-point advantage when it comes to the party with a better economic plan.”
Next came crushing bad news for Democrats with regard to middle- and working-class Americans. Reported Enten: “Historically speaking, which is the party of the middle class has been a huge advantage for Democrats. I have polling from NBC going all the way back since 1989, when Democrats held a 23-point advantage. ... And now in our latest CNN poll, among registered voters, which is the party of the middle class, it is tied. … Trump and the Republican Party have taken that mantle away. And now a key advantage for Democrats historically has gone. Adios amigos.”
And then, on Sam Harris’s “Making Sense” podcast this week, Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) —the first openly gay person elected from the Bronx, who has long been a voice for common sense, the working class and the disenfranchised — said this: “There is a divide between what I would say are two teams in the Democratic Party. 'Team Restraint’ and 'Team Resistance.’ There are those in Team ‘Resistance’ who feel like we should react hysterically to everything Donald Trump says or does. And then those who feel like we should pick and choose our battles and be strategic. But I worry that the momentum is on the side of hysterical, hyperbolic resistance.”
Obviously, as with the nightly warnings issued by Jennings, Torres is talking about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) and others when he speaks of “hysterical, hyperbolic resistance.”
Questions for the Democrats: Is Torres correct? Has the momentum switched to the “hysterical” and “hyperbolic”? Is there no appetite in the Democratic Party for commonsense voices like Torres and Moore, who offer up strategies instead of insults? Or is the appetite there and growing, but the party is too afraid to confront its own bullies?
No doubt CNN’s Jennings will answer those questions and many more as we approach the midterms and the 2028 election. Ignore his opinions and truths at your own political peril.
Douglas MacKinnon is a former White House and Pentagon official.
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