Republican strategist Scott Jennings criticized Republicans who supported former Vice President Kamala Harris during the 2024 presidential campaign, arguing they moved away from long-held conservative positions rather than working to preserve them. His comments came Monday on “After Party with Emily Jashinsky.”

Jennings said he encountered Republicans during the 2024 race who claimed backing Harris was necessary to protect conservatism.

He questioned those arguments and said they reflected a push to move the ideology away from its traditional positions.

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“During the 2024 campaign, I kept hearing these Republicans say things like, ‘In order to save conservatism, we have to vote for Kamala Harris.’ And as someone who had to sit out there and debate these issues every night, I could never sort of figure out why they were saying that, what they meant by that,” Jennings said.

“And then I started to think about the underlying arguments they were making, the other statements they were making, and I realized that they weren’t trying to save conservatism. They were trying to liberalize it.”

Jennings said the same individuals no longer support Republican candidates or core conservative positions.

“A lot of these people no longer vote for any Republican. A lot of these people no longer are pro-life. A lot of these people no longer really believe in any of the conservative stuff that we have all supposedly been fighting for for the last 25 years,” he said.

“They let their personality conflicts or problems with Donald Trump completely and totally change what they claim to be fighting for. Heck, look around.”

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He pointed to former George W. Bush administration communications official Nicolle Wallace, now an MS NOW anchor, referencing remarks she made in 2021.

“We relied upon her for communications advice in the Bush White House. Now, this is somebody who built their career supposedly communicating with the American people about George W. Bush’s conservative agenda,” Jennings said.

“And now she is one of the most deranged looney tunes in American media … Did you ever believe any of it? … Bush was a conservative guy.”

Jennings also criticized “The Bulwark Podcast” host and MS NOW analyst Tim Miller, who left the Republican Party in 2020 after having worked as a GOP operative, including on former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s 2016 presidential campaign.

“Tim Miller, this other looney tunes. He was supposedly a Republican operative. Now, he is one of the most liberal people in our political affairs ecosystem,” Jennings said.

“Did you ever believe any of it? And what is it about Donald Trump that made you change every single thing that you supposedly ever believed in? And I just, I don’t understand how one person could break so many supposedly smart and experienced people.”

Jennings said he still cannot understand how people identifying as Republicans supported Democratic candidates and positions in recent years.

“And to this day, I still do not understand people who claim to be Republicans running around having voted for Democrats in each of the last three elections, having advocated for Democrats to win the Senate, having advocated for Democrats to win the House, having advocated for pro-abortion policies, having advocated for every liberal social crusade, and then look me in the eye and say, ‘You’re hurting conservatism by supporting Donald Trump.’ F all the way off,” he said.

Jashinsky laughed during Jennings’ criticism of Miller, prompting him to continue.

“I don’t know if I’ve ever been around anybody who was less good at their job, but more condescending,” Jennings said.

“His talent to condescension ratio is so far off it’s ridiculous.”

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