Scott Jennings Gives A Facepalm For The Ages After Dem Strategist Suggests Trump Lost June Debate

Posted • August 28, 2024: There is something called spinning in politics, which we see all the time, and then there is something even more egregious: outright gaslighting, which has happened with increasing frequency in recent months the closer we get to Election Day. But something a former communications director for Vice President Kamala Harris asserted during a CNN segment Tuesday about the June presidential debate between President Biden and GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump went way beyond that, so much so that one of the panelists - conservative commentator Scott Jennings - literally facepalmed before rightly calling his colleague out. The topic under discussion was Harris folding on the issue of the terms for the ABC News debate. There had been some squabbling between the Harris and Trump campaigns over the issue of whether or not the mics would be on at all times.

Harris' campaign argued that they wanted them hot throughout the debate. The Trump campaign argued that they had agreed to the same terms for the ABC News debate that they agreed to for the CNN debate, which was to have the other person's mic off when their opponent was speaking. Back to the CNN panel, Jamal Simmons, who was one of many comms directors for Harris in the three and a half years of her vice presidency, argued that Trump was "zero for one when it comes to debates": "Look, Trump right now is zero for one when it comes to debates. Right? He may think that he won that debate, but it might be that he actually lost the war because of that debate. Because after that debate Joe Biden left. And Joe Biden left, he ended up with Kamala Harris so he should be careful."

This prompted an incredulous look from Jennings, followed by a facepalm, and then an inconvenient fact check for Simmons: "Zero for one, Jamal? Jamal, my brother and colleague, zero for – He literally ran a man who'd been in politics for 52 years out of his chosen profession over a debate. I mean, look, I understand what you're arguing that you all traded in for a better candidate, but Trump won the debate. [Laughter] He is not zero for one. Are you saying he actually did so well, that he did badly?" (…)

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