Scott Jennings drops reality check on CNN — Dems' support for boys in girls' sports, illegal aliens destroying their brand

Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) joined conservative pundit Scott Jennings, talking head Dana Bash, and other CNN panelists Sunday to discuss the Democratic Party's failure to connect with American voters — the majority of whom see Democrats in an unfavorable light, recent polling indicates.

Dingell — who last week identified on Detroit public radio various reasons behind President Donald Trump's relative success and popularity with voters — suggested, "Democrats have to stop being against Donald Trump and start being for something. We've got to lay out our agenda for what we're going to do. We need our Project 2028."

Jennings clarified that Democrats' issue is not that they support nothing but rather that they support all the wrong things.

"I'll defend the Democrats. They are for things," Jennings told a stone-faced Dingell. "Illegal aliens. You're for boys in girls' sports. I mean, you are for things, and 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."

Democrats have expended significant political capital in recent months fighting to keep illegal aliens in America.

For instance, Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen and Reps. Robert Garcia (Calif.), Maxwell Frost (Fla.), Yassamin Ansari (Ariz.), and Maxine Dexter (Ore.) rushed to champion the cause of MS-13 associate Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national credibly accused of human trafficking, domestic abuse, and posing a danger to the community.

Rep. Glenn Ivey (Md.), apparently looking to outdo Van Hollen's margarita date with the MS-13 associate, spent Memorial Day in El Salvador fighting for Abrego Garcia, whom he referred to as "my constituent."

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Democrats' fury over the Trump administration's deportation of illegal aliens, over the removal of Temporary Protected Status for select migrant populations, and over the arrest in April of a Milwaukee judge who allegedly helped an illegal alien evade immigration authorities further demonstrates how important this cause is to their party.

Protecting non-straight privileges is another issue that Democrats appear to have coalesced around at both the federal and state levels, even though polling shows the vast majority of Americans are not on board on key applications. While Democrats have fought, for example, to ensure that male transvestites can compete in girls' sports, a January New York Times/Ipsos poll found that 79% of Americans want to see athletes compete in sports teams that align with their sex.

'He speaks directly. He understands people's insecurities.'

After some headshakes and uneasy movements from Jennings' fellow panelists, Jamal Simmons, former communications director for failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris, said, "Here's the thing: What Democrats are for is for an exceptional America."

Missing Dingell's point entirely, Simmons then turned his response into another attack on Trump, stating that the president is "trying to make America very regular. He is trying to make America a place that operates like everybody else in the world."

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While Dingell's Democratic allies appear keen to keep attacking Trump, she suggested to WDET's "The Metro" last week that he is doing some things worth emulating, noting, "He speaks directly. He understands people's insecurities. He understands their concerns. He doesn't use politically correct language."

Although the congresswoman claimed Trump was bad on execution, she noted further that a number of issues that Trump has stood up for — including lowering the cost of living, fairer trade for Americans, and protecting working-class jobs — Democrats should also pursue and champion.

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