Former congressman cackles in Scott Jenning’s face

Former South Carolina lawmaker Bakari Sellers did not bother to hide his contempt on CNN’s Anderson Cooper’s Friday night program when Republican pundit Scott Jennings attempted to blame stale job growth and falling consumer sentiment on former President Joe Biden.

“His main problem is cost of living and most of the cost-of-living problems that we're dealing with in the country, he inherited,” said Jennings, whose statement was punctuated by snorts of derision from Sellers. “We still have a little bit of inflation, but it's largely normalized now. But most of the cost of living, he inherited it.”

Unperturbed, Jennings soldiered on with a Biden pivot, arguing that voters are merely feeling that economy is worse than it actually is: “… Certainly to a lot of Americans, you know, when prices spike the way they did during Biden, even going up 2 percent or 3 percent over the last two years, it feels like tacking on even more problems to their lives.”

CNN anchor Anderson Cooper pointed out, however, that Trump is deep within the second half of his term and that Jenning’s argument was “the same one the Biden administration was making: That things are better than people feel,” and that the problem is messaging.

“Scott Jennings sounds like a Democrat from two and a half years ago, to be completely honest with you,” said Sellers. “… [Y]ou can talk about economic indicators. You can talk about the stock market. You can talk about GDP and these things. However, you have to realize that the average person who is sitting around a kitchen table around this time … are having to make the decision of whether or not they pay for their prescription drugs or pay their utility bills. The fact is, when they drive down the street, they see $5 a gallon at the at the gas station, or they see the price of eggs and milk be skyrocketing. And for Republicans to simply sit here and say that the economic indicators are x, y, z, the American public is looking back at them and saying ‘I was born at night, but not last night.”

“That's why you're having [red states] like Iowa being in contention, and places like Kansas being contention,” Sellers added, speaking of difficult races in what are normally Republican strongholds. “And that's why you see Republicans pulling out of places like North Carolina.”

Republican state Senate candidates and many others, like “Ultra-MAGA" Leigh Wambsganss and Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.), are scrubbing President Donald Trump from their websites. In fact, Wambsganss is also removing the word "Republican.”

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