Some Republicans have been talking up the notion of CNN analyst Scott Jennings as White House press secretary in a second Trump term after he made a stirring little oration in the 3 am hour of Election Night coverage.
Scott’s resume working for George W. Bush and Mitch McConnell might make that prospect surprising. But he’s clearly the GOP star of CNN (mostly viewed by Republicans on social media).
A few hours before the race was called for Trump, anchor Anderson Cooper asked Jennings what he expected in the next few months. But after saying Trump had won a mandate, Jennings talked about how the media did a terrible job. The election results were “an indictment of the political information complex.”
SCOTT JENNINGS: I think I’m interpreting the results tonight as the revenge of just the regular old working class American, the anonymous American who has…
